Federal initiatives since 1996 have intensified the efforts of states to achieve adoption for children in foster care … with the case goal of adoption. For many waiting children, the path to adoption is long. We offer an economic analysis of … adoption from foster care, with an emphasis on the reasons why it may be so difficult to achieve the goal of adoption for all …

Adoption assistance entitlements support the adoptions of children whose birth parents’ rights have been severed after … experiences have left them with special physical, emotional, or behavioral needs. Previous studies of adoption assistance are … limited in scope; I use administrative data on all recorded adoptions from foster care from 1996 through 2003 to examine the …

waiting children and prospective adoptive families influences adoption creation. Cross-section time-series estimates are … supplemented with a new augmented fixed effects procedure to demonstrate that the use of contracts with private agencies bolsters … adoption creation. Contracts for recruitment and orientation of prospective adoptive parents are particularly effective. …

The anti-discrimination law governing placement of children in foster care and adoption was intended to speed the … adoption of Black children who could not be reunited with their families of origin. Only recently have two states been fined … in adoption could result in significant gains to Black children. We find that Black children spend more time as legal …

The human services cost of adoption is about half the cost of long-term foster care for children whose birth parents …’ rights have been terminated. Because adoption is an effective intervention for improving a variety of outcomes for those … income earned over their working lives is similarly large. In all, a dollar spent on the adoption of a child from foster care …

Since 1980 the federal government has implemented a variety of programs to promote the adoption of children from foster … care. A key part of these programs has been the use of subsidies to lower the cost of adopting and parenting children from … effect of subsidies on adoption rates. This paper uses data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis System to estimate the …

termination of parental rights, policy on international adoption must consider the tradeoffs between the best interest of the … to devote resources today to the oversight of international adoption in accord with child protections under the Hague …