American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
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Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 6,
no. 3, July 2014
(pp. 133–58)
Abstract
This paper uses a new dataset on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over US-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls 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 consider the effects of excluding single women and same-sex couples from the process, and find that this would substantially reduce the overall number of adopted children.Citation
Baccara, Mariagiovanna, Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli, and Leeat Yariv. 2014. "Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6 (3): 133–58. DOI: 10.1257/app.6.3.133Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- C78 Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
- J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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