Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 8:00 pm
Adoption is an important phenomenon in the United States. Approximately 2.5 percent of all children, or 1.6 million, are adopted. The adoption process is fascinating for social scientists, allowing inspection of fundamental questions about preferences of parents for child attributes, such as race and gender, that are difficult to identify with biological chilen, where parents have limited freedom of choice. A new data set enables us to examine parents' attitudes and behavior in the domestic adoption process, while providing policymakers an evidence-driven base for evaluating the implications of highly debated policies, such as those restricting adoption by single-sex and foreign couples.
Leeat Yariv is Professor of Economics at Caltech.
Earnest C. Watson Lecture Series
Lecture is free, no tickets or reservations required.
Caltech's Beckman Auditorium located at 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA 91125
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