Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (2014) 3, pp. 133-58
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...