Work Environments and Labor Markets: Explaining Principal Turnover Gap Between Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 144-183

  Sun, Min ^a   Ni, Yongmei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

charter school; Fairlie nonlinear decomposition; logit regression; principal turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952910385     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X15616659     Document Type: Article

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