The Role of Teacher Quality in Retention and Hiring: Using Applications-to-Transfer to Uncover Preferences of Teachers and Schools. NBER Working Paper No. 15966.

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Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT. (2015, unknown): “For example, some studies have found that less effective early-career teachers are more likely to exit than more effective novice teachers (Boyd et al., 2011; Goldhaber, Gross, & Player, 2007; Hanushek et al., 2005; Murnane, 1984).”
Factors Influencing Teachers' Performance and Retention (2015, background): “According to (Boyd et al., 2011), the teacher retention research can be done by exploring the relationship between teacher turnover and teachers’ own characteristics, student body characteristics, and school characteristics.”
How Teacher Turnover Harms Student Achievement (2011, background): “For example, Boyd et al. (2010) studied data on teachers’ applications for transfer to uncover which teachers are more likely to want to transfer from NYC schools.”
New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply (2014, methodology): “We hypothesize, based on both prior research on teacher applications to transfer (Boyd et al., 2011) and evidence regarding homophily in occupation, education, and social class in society in general (McPherson et al.”