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Approximately 400,000 children in the United States are living in the foster care system, with roughly 100,000 of them waiting to be adopted by a prospective adoptive family.
This project is a joint research collaboration between the University of Zurich, Boston College, and Cornell University. In this project, we will study adoption matching from a market design perspective. Specifically, the goal is to use techniques from economics, game theory, operations research and machine learning to improve the process by which children are matched with families to increase the welfare of the children and the families while also improving the process for the caseworkers.
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Prof. Dr. Sven Seuken (Department of Computer Science, UZH) E-Mail: seuken@ifi.uzh.ch |
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Prof. Dr. Vincent Slaugh (SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University) E-Mail: vslaugh@cornell.edu |
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Prof. Dr. Utku Ünver (Department of Economics, Boston College) E-Mail: unver@bc.edu |
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Dr. Ludwig Dierks (Department of Computer Science, UZH) E-Mail: dierks@ifi.uzh.ch |
Search and Matching for Adoption from Foster Care. Nils Olberg, Ludwig Dierks, Sven Seuken, Vincent W. Slaugh, M. Utku Ünver. Working paper, 2021. [pdf on arxiv]
