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Title: Adjusted State Teacher Salaries and the Decision to Teach

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2015

ISBN: 4057445110

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Abstract: Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and federal tax rates. Salaries of non-teaching college graduates, defined as those with occupations outside of education, are used to adjust for state household amenity attractiveness. We then find that state differences in federal tax-adjusted teacher salaries relative those of other college graduates significantly affect the share of education majors that are employed as teachers at the time of the survey. 1

Url: https://business.okstate.edu/site-files/docs/ecls-working-papers/OKSWPS1504.pdf

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Authors: Rickman, Dan S; Wang, Hongbo; Winters, John V

Series Title: Economics Working Paper Series Department of Economics

Publication Number: 1504

Institution: Oklahoma State University

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