Like most other states, Missouri uses assessments intended to measure whether students are on a pathway to “college and career readiness.” The...
Michael Podgursky
Principal Investigator
Middlebush Professor of Economics
Michael Podgursky is the Middlebush Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri – Columbia, where he served as department chair from 1995-2005. He is a member of the Strategic Planning Group and leads the work of the CALDER Missouri team. Dr. Podgursky serves on the board of editors of Education Finance and Policy, Peabody Journal of Education, and the advisory boards for the National Center for Education Statistics, the National Research Council, the National Center for Teacher Quality, American Board of Certification of Teacher Excellence, WESTAT and Mathematica Policy Research.
Dr. Podgursky has published many articles and reports on teacher compensation, teacher quality, and teacher labor markets, and co-authored a book,Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality. His research has been supported by federal and state agencies as well as several private foundations. He is also a co-investigator at the National Center for Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University.
Prior to the University of Missouri-Columbia, Dr. Podgursky was on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1980-1995). He is a member of the American Economic Association, American Education Finance Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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CALDER Policy Brief No. 1-1115-1
This CALDER Explainer reviews the issue of teacher pensions. We provide background information...
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Many states enhanced benefits in teacher retirement plans during the 1990s. This paper examines the school staffing effects of one such...
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As states attempt to staff public school classrooms with qualified teachers, primary attention has focused on educator preparation and early...
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We examine how pension rule changes affected teacher retirement by estimating an option-value retirement model on a large cohort of late career...
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State-specific licensing policies and pension plans create mobility costs for educators who cross state lines. We empirically test whether these...
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Public school teachers retire much earlier than comparable professionals. Pension rule changes affecting new teachers can be used to close this...
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Most public school teachers in the United States are enrolled in defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using administrative micro data from four...
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Rising costs of public employee pension plans are a source of fiscal stress in many cities and states and have led to calls for...
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There is increased policy interest in extending test-based evaluations in K-12 education to include student achievement in high school. High...
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During the late 1990's public pension funds across the United States accrued large actuarial surpluses. The seemingly flush conditions of the...
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Educators in public schools in the United States are typically enrolled in defined-benefit pension plans, which penalize across-plan mobility. We...
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While it is generally understood that defined benefit pension systems concentrate benefits on career teachers and impose costs on mobile teachers...
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Defined Benefit pension plans often generate odd time patterns of benefits. One typical pattern exhibits low accrual in early years, accelerating...
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This paper examines late career mobility and retirement decisions for a cohort of mid-career Missouri public school teachers. The rate of accrual...
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Teacher pension systems target retirements within a narrow range of the career cycle by penalizing individuals who separate too soon or remain...
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We compare teacher preparation programs in Missouri based on the effectiveness of their graduates in the classroom. The differences in...
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The specifics of how growth models should be constructed and used to evaluate schools and teachers is a topic of lively policy debate in states...
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Area of Expertise
- Teacher Labor Markets and Teacher Quality
- Organizational Behavior of Traditional Public
- Private and Charter Schools
