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...

More and more jurisdictions around the world are adopting, or considering the adoption of, legislation to legalize same-sex marriage. The dominant approach for analyzing these reforms has been universalist. According to this view, same-sex marriage represents a legal trend at the global level...

There has been no substantive mainstream research done on the economic history of gays and lesbians in the United States. I argue that the reason has more to do with the discipline?s standard of appropriate research methodology and use of concrete evidence than with an inherent bias against...