Arbeitspapier
The effect of paying parents to adopt: Evidence from Minnesota's foster-care system
Aimed at increasing the adoption rate of older children, Minnesota's 2015 Northstar Care Program eliminated the adoption penalty (the decrease in fostering-based financial transfers associated with adoption) for children aged six and older, while maintaining it for children under age six. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy that controls for a rich set of covariates, we find that parents responded positively to this change in direct financial payments; the annual adoption rate of older foster children aged six to eleven increased by approximately 7 percentage points (22% at the mean) as a result of the program. We additionally find evidence of strategic adoption behavior as the adoption rate of younger children temporarily increased by 11 percentage points (26% at the mean) in the year prior to the program's implementation.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Papers ; No. 2022-01
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
State and Local Government: Health; Education; Welfare; Public Pensions
- Thema
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Family Policy
Government Transfers
Adoption
Foster Care
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bishop, Kelly C.
Mac Donald, Diana E.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Banco de México
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Ciudad de México
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bishop, Kelly C.
- Mac Donald, Diana E.
- Banco de México
Entstanden
- 2022
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