Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race
利用美国儿童收养匹配的新数据，估计潜在养父母对性别和种族的偏好，发现女孩和非裔美国儿童被收养的几率存在显著差异，且不同养父母群体（异性恋、同性伴侣、单身女性）的偏好强度不同。
This paper uses a new dataset on child-adoption matching to estimate the preferences of potential adoptive parents over US-born and unborn children relinquished for adoption. We identify significant preferences favoring girls and against African American children put up for adoption. These attitudes vary in magnitudes across different adoptive parents—heterosexual, same-sex couples, and single women. We consider the effects of excluding single women and same-sex couples from the process, and find that this would substantially reduce the overall number of adopted children.