Child-Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race
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Online Appendix of “Child Adoption Matching: Preferences for Gender and Race”
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1945-7782,1945-7790
DOI: 10.1257/app.6.3.133