Moonlighting agricultural practices of Ugandan rural teachers and teacher retention

This paper explores a little understood aspect of education labour markets, the tendency for teachers to simultaneously engage in both white-collar side-hustle and blue-collar or land-based entrepreneurial activities. The papers argues that teacher’s engagement multiple activities such as moonlighting agriculture rural community enhances their income this helps compensate wage differentials with urban counterparts. practice is also associated teacher retention integration which common challenge relating school staffing. We suggest phenomenon non-education related side-hustles, are typically be problematic, more complex issue may have potential benefits hard-to-staff schools.