We study the relationship between financial well-being and sexual orientation in the United States using Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) data for 2019-2022. We document that people who are lesbian, gay, and bisexual (or LGB) have significantly more difficulty managing...

The social and legal recognition of nonbinary people - those who do not exclusively identify with traditionally male or female genders - is growing. Yet, we know little about their economic realities. We offer the first nationally representative evidence on the earnings of nonbinary people using...

Providing information about the economic cost of sexual orientation discrimination significantly increases support for measures to safeguard equal employment opportuni ties for lesbians and gays. Treatment effect spills over to support for equal employment opportunities based on ethnic origin,...

The influence of misinformation on the political decision-making process became a major concern in the United States after the 2016 Presidential election. We study the impact of "fake news" in the 2020 election cycle by conducting an online experiment the day before the "Super Tuesday" primary...

We provide the first evidence on sexual orientation and earnings in New Zealand (NZ), one of the most inclusive countries for LGBTQ+ people in the world. We use confidential linked census-tax data to compare outcomes for individuals in same-sex couples versus different-sex couples. We find...

Measuring the social preferences of economic agents using experiments has become common place. This process, while incentive compatible, is costly and time consuming, making it infeasible in many settings. We combine standard altruism and warm glow choice experiments with a battery of candidate...

We provide the literature's first estimates of economic outcomes for transgender people and other gender minorities in the United States using nationally representative data from the Household Pulse Survey. We find that transgender women - individuals who were assigned male at birth but who...

We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti-gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual-orientation...