One Says Goodbye, Another Says Hello: Turnover and Compensation in the Early Care and Education Sector

This paper results from approved research using data from the University of Houston Education Research Center. Results, opinions, recommendations, or points of view expressed in this document represent the work and consensus of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the University of Houston, the University of Houston Education Research Center, the Texas Education Agency, the Texas Higher Education Commission Board, the Texas Workforce Commission, or their funding organizations. We thank Jeanette Narvaez, Cathy Horn, and the Education Research Center at the University of Houston for their generosity in helping us execute this research. We thank Diego Amador, Salvador Navarro, Snejana Nihtianova, Christina Triantaphyllis, Kara Waddell, Ken Wolpin, and the participants of the Brown Bag Seminar at Rice University, the Family, Human Capital, and Inequality Workshop in Bad D�rkheim, Germany, and the Symposium of Human Capital and Growth at Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon for comments on this work. We thank the Arnold Foundation for the grant to the Texas Policy Lab at Rice University that funded this research. Any remaining errors are ours. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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