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Occupational Exit of Family Child Care Provider

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The parents of nearly 800,000 U.S. children younger than age five rely on family child care as their primary care arrangement enabling them to work. Yet occupational exit in the family child care industry is exceedingly high, disrupting the continuity (and thus the quality) of care for young children and increasing the stress of working parents. There is a small literature on turnover among family child care providers. However, this dissertation seeks to add to better understand the phenomenon in the context of state child care policy, including subsidy policies such as reimbursement rates, income eligibility, and parental co-payment. Research questions include: (1) What are the provider- and program-level predictors of family child care turnover in each state? Do predictors vary by state?; (2) When controlling for other provider- and program-level characteristics, is family child care provider participation in the subsidy system a predictor of turnover in each state?; and (3) What child care policies are associated with cross-state variation in turnover?
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Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
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