adoption-related expenses and subsidies. We then use these data to estimate hedonic regressions in which adoption cost is a …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 …

treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of …