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Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race / Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli, Leeat Yariv.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baccara, Mariagiovanna.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w16444.
- NBER working paper series no. w16444
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Child-Adoption Matching
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.
- Summary:
- This paper uses a new data set on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over U.S.-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and unborn children close to birth, and against African-American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across different adoptive parents - heterosexual, same-sex couples, and single women. We also consider the effects of excluding single women and same-sex couples from the adoption process. In our data, such policies would substantially reduce the overall number of adopted children and have a disproportionate effect on African-American ones.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2010.
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