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SUMMARY:Economics Colloquium: "Baby Markets: Thinking 
 the Unthinkable in International Adoption"
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 Presenters: Mark Montgomery and Irene Powell, 
 Grinnell College \n
 Adoption laws, national and international, outlaw 
  payments to families for relinquishing their 
 children. This does not stop "baby selling," but 
 rather moves it into the hands of criminals. History 
 suggests that restricting mutually beneficial 
 exchanges can make worse the problems it is supposed 
 to solve. Is it time to think the unthinkable 
 in international adoption?\n
 The talk examines how current adoption laws create 
 incentives for fraud and other forms of abuse, 
 identifies "moral hazards" abuse created by the 
 legal structure of adoption, and explores how 
 relaxing restrictions on compensating birth mothers 
 would change incentives and behavior of birth 
 parents, adoptive parents and adoption facilitators.\n
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 *This talk was originally scheduled for May 30*\n\n

LOCATION:Thomas Steitz Hall of Science 102 - Lecture Hall
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