Adoption Subsidy Dynamics: Explorations in the Analysis of State Administrative Data

Adoption Quarterly

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 3-27

  Barth, Richard P ^a   Wildfire, Judith ^a   Lee, Chung Kwon ^a   Gibbs, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption subsidy; Adoptive families; Special need adoption

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645918680     PISSN: 10926755     EISSN: 1544452X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J145v07n02_02     Document Type: Article

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