Employers' standard practice of including legal spouses in health insurance is likely to place people in unmarried couples at a significant disadvantage for obtaining coverage. Data from married and unmarried couples in the Current Population Survey confirm that people with unmarried partners...

This essay argues that a focus on gender alone is inadequate for the development of the economics of sexuality because of important differences between “gender” and “sexuality” as analytical categories. Examples of gender-based models of the family reveal the limitations of applying...

The postmodern theoretical questioning of such categorizations as “gay” or “lesbian” raises difficult theoretical, methodological, and political issues for economists. Economists have much to gain from engaging in crossdisciplinary intellectual discussions about the nature of the...