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Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pam; Ing, Marsha; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
This article explores the relationship between school contextual factors and teacher retention decisions in New York City. The methodological approach separates the effects of teacher characteristics from school characteristics by modeling the relationship between the assessments of school contextual factors by one set of teachers and the turnover…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Persistence, School Administration, Teacher Administrator Relationship
Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – 2003
This paper explores a little-understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, it finds teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers express preferences to teach close to where they grew up, and, controlling for proximity, they prefer areas with characteristics similar to their…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Labor Market, Proximity, School Location
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Boyd, Donald; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Wyckoff, James – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005
This paper explores a little-understood aspect of labor markets, their spatial geography. Using data from New York State, we find teacher labor markets to be geographically very small. Teachers express preferences to teach close to where they grew up and, controlling for proximity, they prefer areas with characteristics similar to their hometown.…
Descriptors: Recruitment, Proximity, Place of Residence, Geographic Location