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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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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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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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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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Biofuels subsidies and the green paradox

Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom; Long, Ngo Van - 2010

This paper develops sufficient conditions under which the Weak Green Paradox may (and may not) hold in terms of subsidies for biofuel production such that the supply-side responses by fossil fuel producers may more than offset the substitution to biofuels. Analytical results are derived and...

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The long run impact of biofuels on food prices

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Moreaux, … - 2012

More than 40% of US grain is now used to produce biofuels, which are used as substitutes for gasoline in transportation. Biofuels have been blamed universally for recent increases in world food prices. Many studies have shown that these energy mandates in the US and EU may have a large (30-60%)...

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Using scientific publications to evaluate government R&D spending : the case of energy

Popp, David - 2015

The mix of public and private research funding investments in alternative energy presents a challenge for isolating the effect of government R&D funding. Factors such as energy prices and environmental policy influence both private and public R&D decisions. Moreover, because government R&D is...

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Wood-based bioenergy

Hoel, Michael; Sletten, Thea Marcelia - 2014

During recent years increased attention has been given to second-generation wood-based bioenergy. The carbon stored in the forest is highest when there is little or no harvest from the forest. Increasing the harvest from a forest, in order to produce more bioenergy, may thus conflict with the...

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