Michael J. Podgursky is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia. Dr. Podgursky serves on the board of editors of both Education Finance and Policy and the Peabody Journal of Education, as well as on a number of research-institute advisory boards. He also serves as a fellow in education policy at the George W. Bush Institute. He is a co-investigator at the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University and the Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) at the Urban Institute. 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. Dr. Podgursky earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Missouri at Columbia and a doctorate in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Authored Commentary & Research
The public backs changes to personnel policy
Michael Podgursky 8.3.2012
NationalFlypaper
Teacher pensions in the charter sector
Amanda Olberg, Michael Podgursky 6.22.2011
OhioBlog
Quality Choices
Charting a New Course to Retirement: How Charter Schools Handle Teacher Pensions
Amanda Olberg, Michael Podgursky 6.22.2011
NationalReport
A modest proposal for pension reform
Robert M. Costrell, Michael Podgursky 3.29.2011
OhioBlog
A modest proposal for pension reform
Robert M. Costrell, Michael Podgursky 3.16.2011
OhioBlog