@techreport{Kossoudji2005Economics,
abstract = {Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and
produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children
but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm
from a donor with specific selected characteristics into a ?shopping cart? and have that sperm
delivered in twenty-four hours. Similarly, one can sift through the profiles and pictures of
women who are egg donors and select eggs from women with desired characteristics and
arrange an egg delivery. These markets are two segments that loosely fall under the rubric of
Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART), which is a shorthand term for the numerous
procedures aided by technology used to produce a baby. This primer in the economics of
assisted reproduction introduces some of the economic dilemmas brought about by new
reproductive technologies. Now the cost of producing children can radically differ among
people of similar incomes and values because a prospective parent may have to pay to gain
rights to the genetic components that build the child.},
author = {Sherrie A. Kossoudji},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J16; J13; 330; fertility; women's labor; gender; Fruchtbarkeit; Markt; Familien\"{o}konomik; Ethik; Theorie; Welt; Reproduktionsmedizin},
language = {eng},
number = {1458},
title = {The Economics of Assisted Reproduction},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20757},
year = {2005}
}
