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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP7647
	DP7647 Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption
	Leonardo Felli; Leeat Yariv; Mariagiovanna Baccara; Allan Collard-Wexler
发表日期	2010-01-24
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against African-American babies. A non-African-American baby relinquished for adoption attracts the interest of potential adoptive parents with probability 11.5% if it is a girl and 7.9% if it is a boy. As for race, a non-African-American baby has a probability of attracting the interest of an adopting parent at least seven times as high as the corresponding probability for an African-American baby. In addition, we show that a child?s desirability in the adoption process depends significantly on time to birth (increasing over the pregnancy, but decreasing after birth) and on adoption costs. We also document the attitudes toward babies? characteristics across different categories of adoptive parents - heterosexual and same-sex couples, as well as single women and foreign couples. Finally, we consider several recently discussed policies excluding same-sex and foreign couples from the adoption process. In our data, such policies would reduce the number of adopted babies by 6% and 33%, respectively.
主题	Industrial Organization ; Labour Economics
关键词	Child adoption Gender bias Matching Racial bias Search
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp7647
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/536484
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Leonardo Felli,Leeat Yariv,Mariagiovanna Baccara,et al. DP7647 Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption. 2010.