Replication data for: Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Mariagiovanna Baccara; Allan Collard-Wexler; Leonardo Felli; Leeat Yariv

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Project Citation:

Baccara, Mariagiovanna, Collard-Wexler, Allan, Felli, Leonardo, and Yariv, Leeat. Replication data for: Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113894V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      C78 Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
      J13 Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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