banning same-sex marriage? If one looks at reportage by in the mainstream media, punditry in the blogosphere, and self … respect to anti-gay marriage measures. With a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods, we reassess the claim that …

treating everyone equally irrespective of sexual orientation. We find that legal recognition of partnership, marriage and …-sex marriage and similar reforms come at no "welfare" cost to society at large - if anything, the opposite appears to hold. We … equal rights mainly appears in countries with low economic freedom. This likely follows because minority rights are …

developing countries by investigating the motivation for intra-ethnicity marriage in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. Specifically, the … technology. Furthermore, the framework suggests that the probability of marriage within the same ethnic group is positively … related to the size of the group due to frictions in the marriage market: Search costs for co-ethnic spouses are larger the …

from Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study containing sufficient sample sizes of ethnic minority …