Child-adoption Matching: Preferences for gender and race

Mariagiovanna Baccara; Allan Collard-Wexler; Leonardo Felli; Leeat Yariv

doi:10.1257/app.6.3.133

Child-adoption Matching: Preferences for gender and race

Mariagiovanna Baccara, Allan Collard-Wexler, Leonardo Felli, Leeat Yariv

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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).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	133-158
Number of pages	26
Journal	American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Volume	6
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/app.6.3.133
State	Published - Jul 2014
Externally published	Yes

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General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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