The value of teachers’ pensions
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We are grateful to the Office for Manpower Economics for funding for this project and to the Economic and Social Research Council for co-funding through the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS (M544285003). The authors also thank Paul Johnson, David Miner, Steve Palmer, and Grant Whitfield for useful advice and assistance, and the Economic and Social Research Council for funding the project ‘Pension wealth, early retirement and job mobility’, reference RES–000–23–1149, from which this research draws much. We also thank the Office for National Statistics for allowing the authors to access the ASHE/NES data and Richard Howe of the Department for Children, Schools and Families for supplying information from the Database of Teacher Records. Responsibility for the interpretation of the data, and any remaining errors, remains the authors’ alone.
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