@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp6689,
            	author={Bethmann, Dirk and Kvasnicka, Michael},
            	title={A Theory of Child Adoption},
            	year={2012},
	month={Jun},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={6689},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6689},
	abstract={Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of the costs of adopting the child. Our model makes several testable predictions which receive empirical support. These include a higher propensity to adopt among infertile adults, relatives, women with high earnings potential, and celebrities.},
	keywords={children;fertility;demand for adoption;adoption;altruism},
            }