Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R. - 2010
We examine earnings records for 90,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001-02 and … 2006-07 school years, roughly 20,000 of whom left teaching during that time. Among grade 4-8 teachers leaving for other … for the same teachers while in the classroom, suggesting that existing compensation systems do not account for the higher …