The Economics of Lesbian and Gay Families

By D. Black, Seth Sanders, Lowell J. Taylor. 2007

303 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Is tolerance good or bad for growth? (2010, unknown): “Black et al. (2007) suggest the following: “Applying the theory of household specialization to gay men, we might expect that gays who realize early in life that they are unlikely to form traditional households with children may plan on specializing less intensely in market production than heterosexu”
• Sexual orientation and household decision making. (2008, background): “Black et al. (2007) and Jepsen and Jepsen (2002) suggest that family preferences do not depend on sexual orientation, I want to check whether the intra-household decision process and bargaining power as well do not vary with sexual orientation.”
• Sexual orientation, income, and non-pecuniary economic outcomes: new evidence from young lesbians in Australia (2008, background): “To see this, note that the Becker household specialization theory—which has received the most prominence in explaining the economic advantage enjoyed by lesbians (see, for example, Black, Sanders, and Taylor 2007 )—would not necessarily predict an income advantage to be observed among such a young ”
• Unexplored dimensions of discrimination in Europe: homosexuality and physical appearance (2015, unknown): “pearance: Overview of the empirical literature Let us now review the empirical literature on the relationship between being homosexual or having a specific physical appearance and labor-market outcomes.3”
• The Sexual Orientation Wage Gap: The Role of Occupational Sorting and Human Capital (2008, unknown): “While these differences maybe applicable for same-sex groups that enjoy a wage advantage, they are unlikely to explain the earnings differential for same-sex groups that suffer a wage penalty, given that the educational attainment of same-sex individuals (irrespec tive of gender) is higher than that”
• Personal Characteristics, Sexual Behaviors, and Male Sex Work (2010, background): “Despite this, a number of studies by demographers and economists looking at trends among the gay-identified population find differences on a range of outcomes, including earnings (Berg and Lien 2002; Carpenter 2004), partnership status (Carpenter and Gates 2008; Jepsen and Jepsen 2002), and general ”