Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race
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...
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| description | 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. |
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| subjects | Adopted children Adoption African Americans Boys Children Children & youth Costs Couples Datasets Economic models Economic statistics Economics Female homosexuality Gender Girls Group facilitation Hispanic people Hispanics Parents & parenting Preferences Race Same sex marriage Social research Studies Websites White people |
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