AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ADOPTION
作者:
MARSHALL H. MEDOFF,
期刊:
Economic Inquiry
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 31,
issue 1
页码: 59-70
ISSN:0095-2583
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1993.tb00866.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
This paper estimates the supply of adoptions using a decision‐making economic framework of desired fertility and family size. The empirical results show that the decision to place a child for adoption is negatively related to a woman's labor force participation, the size of Aid to Families with Dependent Children payments and the unemployment rate, and is positively related to her marital status, education, and religious affiliation. The price and availability of abortions are found to have no statistically significant effect on the adoption decision. Furthermore, state regulations designed to encourage adoptions have no impact on the adoption optio
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