-sex mortgage applications over time and exploit state variation to estimate the causal effect of changes in same-sex marriage laws …To our knowledge, this paper is the first to describe the pathways through which same-sex marriage laws are thought to … increase same-sex mortgage applications. The paper is also the first to use the HMDA dataset to examine the pattern of same …

approach, reinforcing the heteronormativity of marriage in a way that delayed all efforts to pass a law on same-sex registered … courts’ opinions as to the human rights dynamics surrounding same-sex marriage and, more importantly, about the current role … of heteronormativity in marriage law. This article concludes that the legal existence of Bernaroli’s marriage represents …