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...

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...