Teacher retention in Appalachian schools: Evidence from Kentucky

Joshua M. Cowen, J. Butler, Jacob Fowles, Megan E. Streams and Eugenia Toma

Economics of Education Review, 2012, vol. 31, issue 4, 431-441

Abstract: In this paper we analyze teacher attrition from Appalachian school districts over nearly twenty years of data. We employ a unique panel of public K-12 teachers active in Kentucky between 1986 and 2005, and discern several patterns of interest to scholars and policymakers. Inter-district mobility is rare in Kentucky, and rarer still among Appalachian teachers. Few teachers transfer between regions, but teachers are considerably more likely to leave Appalachia than to transfer to it. Our results also indicate that Appalachian teachers are more likely to exit the profession. One implication of this evidence is that improvements to teacher quality in such isolated areas would require a focus on the home labor pool.

Keywords: Teacher labor markets; Rural education; Education reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.12.005

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