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Fong, Anthony B.; Makkonen, Reino – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2012
This study examines retirement patterns of California educators from 1995/96 to 2009/10. It finds that the percentage of educators over age 60 doubled, educators were more likely to retire when a school district's local revenue decreased, and the percentage of retired educators returning to work increased. Study findings revealed that: (1) The age…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Age, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Fong, Anthony B.; Makkonen, Reino – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2012
This study examines retirement patterns of California educators from 1995/96 to 2009/10. It finds that the percentage of educators over age 60 doubled, educators were more likely to retire when a school district's local revenue decreased, and the percentage of retired educators returning to work increased. Study findings revealed that: (1) The age…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Age, Preschool Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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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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