Certain kinds of teachers, including those teaching math and science, may be more likely than others to select a 401(k)-style teacher-pension plan over a traditional pension plan given the choice.
That's the key finding from an analysis of Florida data released earlier this week by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative-learning Washington think tank.
For the paper, authors Matthew Chingos of the Brookings Institution, another think-tank, and Martin R. West of the Harvard Graduate School of Education analyzed data on teachers from Florida between 2002-03 and 2008-09 from the state's education and retirement databases. Records for some 75,000 teachers were analyzed in all.
