Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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971083 | The Journal of Socio-Economics | 2008 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Adoption assistance entitlements support children whose birth parents cannot care for them. The entitlements are meant to offset the extra cost to adoptive families of raising children whose early adverse experiences leave them with special needs. Unlike other Social Security Act programs, adoption assistance is not federally administered but is administered by states or localities. State-to-state variation in administration of this federal entitlement leads to unequal treatment of similar children. Moreover, although adoption assistance is an entitlement for children, payments made by many states are systematically correlated with the characteristics of adoptive families.
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Authors
Mary Eschelbach Hansen,