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The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process

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dc.contributor.authorSlaugh, Vincent W.
dc.contributor.authorAkan, Mustafa
dc.contributor.authorKesten, Onur
dc.contributor.authorÜnver, M. Utku
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-12T21:09:42Z
dc.date.available2020-09-12T21:09:42Z
dc.date.issued2016-03-01
dc.description.abstractThe Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange (PAE) helps case workers who represent children in state custody by recommending prospective families for adoption. We describe PAE's operational challenges using case worker surveys and analyze child outcomes through a regression analysis of data collected over multiple years. A match recommendation spreadsheet tool implemented by PAE incorporates insights from this analysis and allows PAE managers to better utilize available information. Using a discrete-event simulation of PAE, we justify the value of a statewide adoption network and demonstrate the importance of better information about family preferences for increasing the percentage of children who are successfully adopted. Finally, we detail a series of simple improvements that PAE achieved through collecting more valuable information and aligning incentives for families to provide useful preference information.
dc.description.legacydownloadsSlaugh2_Penn_adoption_exchange.pdf: 228 downloads, before Aug. 1, 2020.
dc.identifier.other9212206
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/72199
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2015.0828
dc.rightsRequired Publisher Statement: © INFORMS. Final version published as: Slaugh, V. W., Akan, M., Kesten, O., & Ünver, M. U. (2016). The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange improves its matching process. Interfaces, 46(2), 133-152. doi: 10.1287/inte.2015.0828 Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
dc.subjectcommunity OR
dc.subjectpublic service
dc.subjectmatching
dc.subjectmarket design
dc.titleThe Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process
dc.typearticle
local.authorAffiliationSlaugh, Vincent W.: vws8@cornell.edu Cornell University School of Hotel Administration
local.authorAffiliationAkan, Mustafa: Carnegie Mellon University
local.authorAffiliationKesten, Onur: Carnegie Mellon University
local.authorAffiliationÜnver, M. Utku: Boston College

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