ERIC Number: EJ1471331
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Jun
Pages: 29
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1062
Available Date: 0000-00-00
After School: An Examination of the Career Paths and Earnings of Former Teachers
Quentin Brummet1; Emily K. Penner2; Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej3; Sonya R. Porter3
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v47 n2 p503-531 2025
We use a novel linkage of school district administrative data to Internal Revenue Service records to study educators' post-exit career outcomes. The majority of leavers remain in education and mean earnings are slightly below pre-exit earnings even 8 years later. However, these average changes conceal wide variation in outcomes. Roughly 20% of leavers are unemployed, and the bottom quartile of employed leavers earn less than $20,000 annually. At the same time, earnings among the top quartile of employed leavers are higher than those of nearly all stayers, sometimes exceeding $100,000. Post-exit employment and earnings declines are associated with the presence of children or a high-earning spouse for voluntary female leavers, suggesting a role for family-conscious policies for teacher retention.
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Career Change, Teachers, Salaries, Unemployment, Family Work Relationship, Urban Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED); National Science Foundation (NSF); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (DHHS/NIH)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B130017; IBSSL1620419; R01HD094007
Department of Education Funded: Yes
Author Affiliations: 1NORC at the University of Chicago; 2University of California, Irvine; 3U.S. Census Bureau