Teachers' Characteristics Influence Their Pension Choices, Study Suggests

Teachers' Characteristics Influence Their Pension Choices, Study Suggests

By Stephen Sawchuk on February 22, 2013 
Ed Week

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.

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