following the legalization of same-sex marriage. Both partners in these couples were more likely to be employed, to work full … time, and to work longer hours. Marriage equality was also associated with a decrease in self-employment and within … by a reduction in discrimination, a marriage premium in wages, or changes in fertility, assortative matching and …

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. Ireland had a … Marriage Bar in place until the 1970s. In 2014/2015, women participating in the The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing were … asked - for the first time in a nationally-representative survey - specific questions about their experience of the Marriage …

We examine whether same-sex marriage legalization announcements impact the occurrence of LGBT hate-crimes. We exploit … variation in the timing of same-sex marriage legalization announcements across states, using a difference-in-differences design …. We find that a same-sex marriage legalization announcement leads to a reduction in the LGBT hate-crime rate of 0.111 per …

When limited to heterosexual marriage, agents of different genders are not guaranteed to harvest the same payoff even … same across genders. If same-sex marriage is legalized and there is a positive mass of agents who find marriage with both …