Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299911 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16983
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Local teacher recruitment through "grow-your-own" programs is a prominent strategy to address workforce shortages and ensure that incoming teachers resemble, understand, and have strong connections to their communities. We exploit the staggered rollout of the Teacher Academy of Maryland career and technical education certificate program across public high schools, finding that exposed students were more likely to become teachers by 0.6 percentage points (pp), or 47%. Effects are concentrated among White girls (1.4pp/39%) and Black girls (0.7pp/80%). We also identify positive impacts on wages (5% on average/18% for Black girls), countering a prevailing narrative that teaching leaves one worse off financially relative to other labor market opportunities.
Subjects: 
earnings
occupational choice
college major choice
high school curricula
teaching
JEL: 
I20
J24
H52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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