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Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race

Published:2014-07-01 Issue:3 Volume:6 Page:133-158
ISSN:1945-7782
Container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Author:

Baccara Mariagiovanna¹,Collard-Wexler Allan²,Felli Leonardo³,Yariv Leeat⁴

Affiliation:

1. Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130 (e-mail: )

2. Department of Economics, Duke University, 419 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27708 (e-mail: )

3. Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK (e-mail: )

4. Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena CA 91125 (e-mail: )

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. (JEL C78, J13, J15, J16)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/app.6.3.133

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