Teaching, Teachers Pensions and Retirement across Recent Cohorts of College Graduate Women

Maria Fitzpatrick

No 22698, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Labor force participation rates of college-educated women ages 60 to 64 increased by 20 percent (10 percentage points) between 2000 and 2010. One potential explanation for this change stems from the fact that fewer college-educated women in the more recent cohorts were ever teachers. This occupational shift could affect the length of women’s careers because teaching is a profession where workers are covered by defined benefit pensions and, generally, defined benefit pensions allow workers to retire earlier than Social Security. I provide evidence supporting the hypothesis and show that older college-educated women who worked as teachers do not experience increases in labor force participation as large as their counterparts who never taught.

JEL-codes: H55 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-09
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