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Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael; Wang, Xiqian – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2020
Many states enhanced benefits in teacher retirement plans during the 1990s. This paper examines the school staffing effects of one such enhancement in a major urban school district with mostly high poverty schools. Pension rule changes in 1999 for St. Louis public school teachers resulted in very large increases in pension wealth for active…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Districts, Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
In response to financial pressures, the New York State Assembly has created new, less-generous retirement plans for teachers. Teachers and other education employees are enrolled in one of two plans, the Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) and the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS). How far have the benefits…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment Benefits, Retirement Benefits, Money Management, Teacher Salaries
PACER Center, 2017
This toolkit was created to make transition planning easier and offers easy-to-understand information about the purpose of transition planning, the goal and importance of age-appropriate assessments, and the required rules that are used by schools. It also includes information on the community partners that can provide youth with supports as…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Planning, Disabilities, Guidelines
Costrell, Robert M.; Podgursky, Michael – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2009
While it is generally understood that defined benefit pension systems concentrate benefits on career teachers and impose costs on mobile teachers, there has been very little analysis of the magnitude of these effects. The authors develop a measure of implicit redistribution of pension wealth among teachers at varying ages of separation. Compared…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Faculty Mobility, Costs
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Yeung, W. Jean; Xu, Zhenhua – Social Indicators Research, 2012
China's oldest old population is estimated to quadruple by 2050. Yet, poverty rate for the oldest old has been the highest among all age groups in China. This paper investigates the relationship between economic stress, quality of life, and mortality among the oldest-old in China. Both objective economic hardships and perceived economic strain are…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Poverty, Income, Mortality Rate
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Brown, Kristine M. – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2009
This paper exploits a major, unanticipated reform of the California teachers' pension to provide quasi-experimental evidence on the link between pension generosity and retirement timing. Using two large administrative datasets, the author conducts a reduced-form analysis of the pension reform and estimates a structural model of retirement timing.…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Incentives, Public Officials, Baby Boomers