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Using Private Contracts to Create Adoptions from Foster Care

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  • Mary Eschelbach Hansen

    (Department of Economics, American University)

Abstract

Creating adoptions for children waiting in foster care is a good investment, but the number of adoptions created each year meets only a fraction of the need. This paper explores how the organization of the delivery of social services to 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.

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  • Mary Eschelbach Hansen, 2007. "Using Private Contracts to Create Adoptions from Foster Care," Working Papers 2007-03, American University, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:amu:wpaper:0307
    DOI: 10.17606/vxae-nj14
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    Keywords

    adoption; child welfare; fixed effects vector decomposition; foster care; privatization;
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    JEL classification:

    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J18 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Public Policy

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