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Gay Politics Goes Mainstream : Democrats, Republicans, and Same-Sex Relationships

Fernández, Raquel; Parsa, Sahar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

which the Democratic and Republican parties took opposing stands over the status of gay people in society. What roles did …

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Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples

Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2020

A large body of research documents that the 2010 dependent coverage mandate of the Affordable Care Act was responsible for significantly increasing health insurance coverage among young adults. No prior research has examined whether sexual minority young adults also benefitted from the dependent...

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Forsaking All Others? The Effects of "Gay Marriage" on Risky Sex

Dee, Thomas S. - 2005

a culture of responsibility and commitment among homosexuals. A specific implication of this claim is that "gay marriage …, which provides a framework for discussing the ways in which gay marriage might reduce (or increase) the prevalence of STI …. Then, I present reduced-form empirical evidence on whether gay marriage has actually reduced STI rates. These evaluations …

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Effects of Access to Legal Same-Sex Marriage on Marriage and Health : Evidence from BRFSS

Carpenter, Christopher - 2018

.e., households with exactly two same-sex adults], which we show includes a substantial share of gay and lesbian couples, coincident … SSM improved health for adult gay men …

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Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People : Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey

Aksoy, Billur; Carpenter, Christopher; Sansone, Dario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

is significantly lower than support for gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. Our results provide timely evidence on …

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The Sexual Activity and Birth Control Use of American Teenagers

Levine, Phillip B. - 2000

This paper evaluates the evidence regarding teens' sexual activity and birth control use with an emphasis on the contribution of economic analysis. For non-economists, teen sexual activity is often considered spontaneous and irrational, and pregnancies are viewed as mistakes.' Alternatively an...

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The Impact of Induced Abortion on Birth Outcomes in the U.S

Joyce, Theodore J. - 1985

This paper examines the impact of induced abortion on birth outcomes by treating abortion as an endogenous input into the production of infant health. To gauge the direct and indirect effect of abortion, three measures of infant health are considered simultaneously: the neonatal sortality rate,...

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Cigarette Taxes and Smoking Among Sexual Minority Adults

Carpenter, Christopher - 2020

We provide the first quasi-experimental evidence on the relationship between cigarette taxes and sexual minority adult smoking by studying individuals in same-sex households (a large share of whom are in same-sex romantic relationships) from the 1996-2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance...

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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change : Fighting HIV with MTV

Banerjee, Abhijit - 2019

We test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model we show that "edutainment" can work through an individual or a social channel. We conducted a randomized...

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Schooling, Wealth, Risky Sexual Behavior, and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

Lucas, Adrienne M. - 2018

Economic growth and development have improved human health in many regions, while sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag behind. Economic theory and the existing empirical evidence suggest that development may not generate large reductions in the leading cause of adult mortality in the region,...

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