This paper critically reviews research on sexual and gender minority (SGM) families,
including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, asexual, intersex, and other …

Public attitudes and policies toward LGBTQ individuals have improved substantially in
recent decades. Economists are actively shaping the discourse around these policies and …

Abstract On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court extended nationwide legal
access to same‐sex marriage in Obergefell v. Hodges, following a series of court cases and …

We provide the first comprehensive evidence on the effects of access to legal same‐sex
marriage (SSM) on marriage and adult health using the full rollout of marriage equality …

This paper analyzes how the legalization of same-sex marriage in the US affected same-sex
couples in the labor market by using data from the American Community Survey. Access to …

Relationship stability is a key indicator of well-being, but most US-based research has been
limited to different-sex couples. The 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program …

The Process of Social Research successfully meets two major challenges of teaching social
science methods: to make the material interesting and accessible to students, and to provide …

The expansion of legal rights to same-sex couples is afoot in a number of Western countries.
The effects of this rollout are not only important in their own right but can also provide a …

We study how the average labor supply of gay men and lesbian women responds to the
legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. We exploit variation in the timing of …

I provide evidence on the direct effects of legal same-sex marriage in the United States by
studying Massachusetts, the first state to legalize it in 2004 by court order. Using confidential …