Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, Leonardo; Yariv, Leeat
• 署名单位: Washington University (WUSTL); Duke University; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; California Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.6.3.133
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 133-158
• 关键词: foster-care; mate selection; search; ECONOMICS; marriage; MODEL

摘要

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.