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- Title
Adoption Subsidies and Placement Outcomes for Children in Foster Care.
- Authors
Buckles, Kasey S.
- Abstract
More than 400,000 children in the United States are currently in foster care, many of whom are at risk for long-lasting emotional and health problems. The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 provided federal funds for monthly adoption subsidies designed to promote adoptions of special-needs children and children in foster care. Using data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting Systems, I find that the number of adoptions increases when children become subsidy-eligible, and that most of the increase is from adoptions by foster parents. Conditional on adoption, subsidy eligibility decreases time spent in foster care.
- Subjects
FOSTER home care; ADOPTED children; CHILD psychology research; CHILD welfare; CHILDREN'S health; SPECIAL needs adoption; CHILDREN with disabilities
- Publication
Journal of Human Resources, 2013, Vol 48, Issue 3, p596
- ISSN
0022-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3368/jhr.48.3.596