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2007-03 Using private contracts to create adoptions from foster care
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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American University (Washington, D.C.). Department of EconomicsLanguage
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Working paper No. 2007-03. 25 pages.Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/4986Usage metrics
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