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The child adoption marketplace : parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary R.; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more …. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely … adoption cost differentials are determined by adoptive parent preferences for adoptive child characteristics. We administered a …
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Gender and racial biases : evidence from child adoption
Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - 2010
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 …
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Birth order and delinquency : evidence from Denmark and Florida
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Doyle, Joseph J.; Figlio, … - 2017
Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...
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Parental and student time use around the academic year
Cowan, Benjamin; Jones, Todd R.; Swigert, Jeffrey - 2023
We demonstrate how mothers, fathers, and 15-17-year-old students alter their schedules around the K-12 academic year. Using regression discontinuity (RDD) methods, combined with dates on school year start and end dates by locality, we document several notable results. First, mothers are...
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An equilibrium analysis of marriage, divorce and risk-sharing
Anderberg, Dan - 2001
This paper considers family formation and reciprocity-based cooperation in the form of sharing of earnings-risk. While risk sharing is one benefit to marriage it is also limited by divorce risk. With search in the marriage market there may be multiple equilibria diering not only in divorce rates...
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Is marriage as good as a contract?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2013
Neither marriage nor a legally enforceable contract serves any useful purpose if the parties have access to a perfect credit market. In the presence of credit rationing, efficiency and utility equalization are guaranteed only by a legally enforceable contract. Separate-property marriage may...
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For better or for worse? : state-level marital formation and risk sharing
Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory D. - 2002
Why do some U.S. states have higher levels of marital formation than others? This paper introduces an economic model wherin a state s representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk. The paper demonstrates that such a diversification...
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The impact of defaults on technology adoption, and its underappreciation by policymakers
Bergman, Peter; Rogers, Todd - 2017
adoption significantly and improves student achievement. Our surveys show automatic enrollment is uncommon because its impact …
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas (contributor); Falk, Armin (contributor);  … - 2008
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Parents' desire to make equal inter vivos transfers
Halvorsen, Elin (contributor);  … - 2008
This study argues that parents have a desire for dividing equally between their children, and that this motive applies to transfers of gifts inter vivos. We suggest that the equal division motive competes with traditional altruism: support to the child or the children with greatest needs. When...
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