Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers' Economic Anxiety in a High-Cost Urban District

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Elise Dizon-Ross, Stanford University; Susanna Loeb, Brown University; Emily Penner, University of California-Irvine. School of Education; Jane Rochmes, Chistopher Newport University

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Project Citation: 

Dizon-Ross, Elise, Loeb, Susanna, Penner, Emily, and Rochmes, Jane . Stress in Boom Times: Understanding Teachers’ Economic Anxiety in a High-Cost Urban District. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-05-22. https://doi.org/10.3886/E119571V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
Despite growing concern over teachers’ ability to live comfortably where they work, we know little about the systematic relationship between affordability and teachers’ well-being, particularly in high-cost urban areas. We use novel survey data from San Francisco Unified School District to identify the patterns and prevalence of economic anxiety among teachers and assess how this anxiety predicts teachers’ attitudes, behaviors, and turnover. We find that San Francisco teachers have far higher levels of economic anxiety on average than a national sample of employed adults, and that younger teachers are particularly financially anxious. Furthermore, such anxiety predicts measures of job performance and teacher retention— economically anxious teachers tend to have more negative attitudes about their jobs, have worse attendance, and are 50% more likely to depart the district within 2 years after the survey.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms teacher labor markets; urban education; economic anxiety
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage San Francisco, CA
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2016 – 2018 (Spring 2016 through Spring 2018)
Universe:  View help for Universe Classroom teachers
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; survey data

Methodology

Response Rate:  View help for Response Rate The response rate for our survey of traditional public school teachers in San Francisco Unified School District was 69%.

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