That is the motivating principle of our recent study examining whether teachers with longer commute times are more likely to leave their schools.
Accounting for characteristics of educators, their neighborhoods, and the schools in which they work, we find that teachers with longer commutes are more likely to transfer to other schools within MNPS. The association between commute time and transfer probability is almost linear. Each one-minute increase in one-way commute time increases the likelihood of transferring schools in the next year by about 0.3 percentage points. Compared to a teacher with a commute of 10 to 15 minutes, a teacher with a 40- to 45-minute commute is about 10 percentage points more likely to transfer in a given year. The average rate of transfer for all teachers is only about 11%, so this difference is very large.