Economics of LGBTQ+ Individuals Virtual Seminar Series
Tuesdays at Noon ET (16:00 UTC)
The one-hour seminar includes a 35-minute presentation by the author and 25 minutes for questions and discussion. Please contact Michael Martell at mmartell@bard.edu with any questions or feedback.
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2024
All Seminars 12:00 ET (on Tuesdays)
January 30, 2024
“Abolishing the sterilization requirement for legal gender changes – Impact on selection into treatment, health, and earnings”
Ylva Moberg, Rinni Norlinder (rinni.norlinder@nek.uu.se), Lucas Tilley, Emma von Essen
In 2013, Sweden abolished the requirement to be sterilized before being able to change legal gender marker. We use detailed population wide register data, including information on medical diagnoses and socioeconomic variables, to study the impact of the abolishment on the selection into gender affirming health care, and the health and labor market outcomes of those who go through gender transition. Our analysis is carried out under the lens of the dual forms of oppression – based on gender and being trans – that may face transgender people in different ways as they change legal gender. Preliminary results indicate that many more seek gender affirming care and change their legal gender when sterilization is no longer needed to do so. Without this demand, younger people, and more persons who were assigned female at birth, seek gender affirming care and change their legal gender. Effects on earnings and health are thus far inconclusive.
February 6, 2024
“Gender Identity and Access to Higher Education”
I. Maupin and Bryan McCannon (bryan.c.mccannon@gmail.com)
Abstract: Our research examines the potential gender identity discrimination within higher education. An audit study was conducted by sending emails to admission counselors, where the messages varied in the inclusion of gender pronouns in the signature line. The results indicate a higher response rate for emails which included preferred pronouns, with a response rate increase of approximately four percentage points, regardless of the type of pronoun used. This suggests a preference for students that are more progressive in their thinking. We engage in text analysis and show that responses to inquiries with pronouns received more friendly responses receiving more use of exclamation marks, emojis/emoticons, and from a topic modeling algorithm were less likely to be strictly replies explaining the admission process. Finally, we apply machine learning to identify key institution attributes that are useful in predicting heterogeneous responses, and to identify the attributes of institutions where negative discrimination is likely to occur.
February 13, 2024
“Dynamics in Employment and Income Before and After Transgender Transitioning: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data”
Elisa de Weerd (deweerd@ese.eur.nl) with John Cawley and Hans van Kippersluis
Transgender individuals on average have lower socioeconomic and health outcomes. This paper estimates the changes in labor market and health outcomes before and after legal gender transitioning. Using individual-level administrative panel data from the Netherlands over the period 2014-2022, we identify nearly 6,500 legal gender transitions, defined as the change of gender marker on one's birth certificate. Data on employment and health care utilization are drawn from administrative records. Using an event study approach with a sample of the general population serving as controls, we find changes in economic outcomes after transitioning, and important differences between those transitioning female-to-male (FTM) versus male-to-female (MTF). For both groups, employment and earned income decrease in the years preceding their legal gender transition. They differ, however, in dynamics after transitioning. For those transitioning FTM, there are increases in employment and income 5 or more years after transitioning; in contrast, for those transitioning MTF, employment and income remain significantly lower 3-4 years after transitioning, and are not significantly higher 5 or more years post-transition. The results provide information about dynamics in economic outcomes around legal gender transitions, and demonstrate that there can be meaningful differences for those transitioning FTM versus MTF.
February 20, 2024
“Implications of the Decline in LGBT Rights for Population Mental Health: Evidence from Polish ‘LGBT-free zones’”
Chad Meyerhoefer (chm308@lehigh.edu), Bingjin Xue, and Anna Poznańska
We investigate the consequences of anti-LGBT laws in Poland for suicide attempts and fatalities by applying border-area difference-in-differences models to county-level data. We find that annual suicide attempts increased by 16%, or 5 attempts per 100k capita, after the enactment of anti-LGBT statutes. This rise in suicide attempts was concentrated among men, and was associated with 11 additional suicides per 100k individuals aged 30-49. We also find an increase in suicide attempts in areas that deliberated, but subsequently rejected anti-LGBT resolutions, providing evidence that stigmatization of minority groups leads to declines in population mental health.
February 27, 2024
“Transgender Stratification Economics: Empirical Evaluation of Intersectional Effects in the 2015 Transgender Survey”
Robert Haggar (robertdonaldhaggar@gmail.com)
Research on the economic status of transgender status has found that transgender people face pervasive discrimination from both state and non-state actors. This paper builds upon the growing labor-economics of transgender people (Carpenter, Eppink, and Gonzales 2020; Carpenter, Lee, and Nettuno 2022; Shannon 2022) but breaks with it by considering economic precarity more broadly. By incorporating insights from intersectional theory and Marxian Feminism, this paper seeks to argue that economic marginalization and social oppression reinforce and enable one another. Following the intersectional methods of stratification economics, this paper compares the economic marginality of transgender people to the US population across income distributions and labor force status using the 2015 United States Transgender Survey and the 2015 American Community Survey. Transgender individuals are clustered in precarious labor force statuses which are characterized by low income. This clustering is more pronounced for transgender women, nonbinary people, and racially marginalized people. These transgender individuals, alongside those with disabilities and those who have experienced workplace discrimination due to their gender identity, are far more likely to engage in low-income self-employment, sex work, and illegal employment. This is the first research, to the author’s knowledge, to provide quantitative analyses of the factors contributing to engagement in sex work for transgender individuals in the United States.
March 5, 2024
“Transition to College and Disparities among LGBTQ+ Students: Survey Evidence from the High School Class of 2023”
Christina Sun (ucsun@ucdavis.edu)
As college education becomes increasingly more important and offers a wide range of economic and social benefits (Chan, 2016), the transition from high school to college is an especially important milestone for many young adults. Existing research suggests that students from historically underserved groups are also the ones likely facing the most obstacles during their transition to college (Goldrick-Rab et al., 2007). One such group is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) students, whose transition to college has not been well-studied in part due to a dearth of data. In this paper, we provide direct evidence on the experience of LGBTQ+ students prior to college matriculation, leveraging survey data collected from a large sample of graduating high school seniors with a special focus on documenting the supports, challenges, and disparities facing gender and sexual minority students. Preliminary results show that gender and sexual minority students report worse social experiences in high school, and have markedly different patterns of college major choices and concerns about college from their cisgender, heterosexual peers.
March 12, 2024
“Silence to Solidarity: Using Group Dynamics to Reduce Anti-Transgender Discrimination in India”
Duncan Webb (duncan.webb@psemail.eu)
Individual-level discrimination is often attributed to deep-seated prejudice that is difficult to change. But at the societal level, we sometimes observe rapid reductions in discriminatory preferences, suggesting that communication about a minority might drive such shifts. I examine whether discrimination can be reduced by two types of communication about a minority: (i) horizontal communication between majority-group members, or (ii) top-down communication from agents of authority (e.g., the legal system). I run a field experiment in urban India (N=3,397) that measures discrimination against a marginalized community of transgender people. Participants are highly discriminatory: in a control condition, they sacrifice 1.9x their daily food expenditure to avoid hiring a transgender worker to deliver groceries to their home. But horizontal communication between cisgender participants sharply reduces discrimination: participants who were earlier involved in a group discussion with two of their neighbors no longer discriminate on average, even when making private post-discussion choices. This effect is 1.7x larger than the effect of top-down communication, informing participants about the legal rights of transgender people. The discussion’s effects are not driven by virtue signalling or correcting a misperceived norm. Instead, participants appear to persuade each other to be more pro-trans, partly because pro-trans participants are the most vocal in discussions.
March 19, 2024
No Seminar – Spring Recess
March 26, 2024
“Labor Market Outcomes of Same-Sex Couples in Countries with Legalized Same-Sex Marriage”
Honorata Bogusz (h.bogusz@uw.edu.pl ) and Jan Gromadzki
We study the labor market outcomes of same-sex couples using data from large representative household surveys. We assess the quality of the data on same-sex couples in 18 high- and middle-income countries that have legalized same-sex marriage. In our detailed analysis, we use high-quality data representing more than two-thirds of the world’s population with access to same-sex marriage on three continents. Same-sex couples are characterized by higher labor force participation rates and more hours worked than different-sex couples, largely due to the differences in the probability of having a child. Men in same-sex couples have a much higher risk of unemployment than men in different-sex couples. These unemployment gaps cannot be explained by individual and household characteristics.
April 2, 2024
“The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluations”
Billur Aksoy (billuraksoy@gmail.com)
A rich literature explores gender differences between men and women, but an increasing share of the population identifies their gender in some other way. We explore the confidence and self-evaluations of gender minorities. Using data from roughly 10,000 students and 1,500 adults, we compare gender minorities to those who identify as male or female and document “gender minority gaps.” On a math and science test, gender minorities are less confident and provide less favorable self-evaluations than equally performing males. Among students, similar gaps arise between gender minorities and females. Additional results reveal that gender minority gaps are domain specific.
April 9, 2024
“Socio-Economic Disparities in Latin America among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples”
Ercio Munoa (erciom@iadb.org)
This paper exploits full-count population censuses from several countries in Latin America that contain information that allows the identification of same-sex couples through the question about the sex of each household member and the relationship to the head. Once the population of interest is identified in the census data, we characterize them and document existing socioeconomic disparities using the information available in the questionnaire.
April 16, 2024
“Ageing queer bodies – and the drag of Austria’s recent history”
Karin Schoenpflug (karin.schoenpflug@univie.ac.at)
Based on qualitative interviews with LGBTIQ+ people aged 60 plus, this paper explores the expectations, foreseeable adversities, and desires for possible queer living arrangements in retirement and (very) old age. The study differentiates between the subgroups in the LGBTQI+ universe, and also employs an intersectional perspective, considering a diversity of situations based on race, class and family/social capital and networks. Next to the perspectives of the ageing queer community, the study also includes interviews with (queer) old age care personnel, social security providers, and community experts in Austria, Germany and Sweden talking about their perspectives on specific needs and public and private provisions for this segment of an ageing population. On a meta-level, the findings are linked to a time-line of significant events and periods for the different living cohorts of Austria’s queer community, showing how a rapidly changing historical background (ranging from the total ban of homosexuality until 1971, the AIDS-crisis of the 1980s, the “second” women’s movement, the first (trans-inclusive) pride march in 1996, gay marriage in 2019 and the ongoing genital mutilation of intersex children) leads to very different positions when it comes to imagining life as an old(er) queer person.
April 23, 2024
“Non-binary Gender Economics: The Preferences and Behaviors of Non-Binary Individuals”
Keith Marzilli Ericson (kericson@bu.edu) with Katherine Coffman, Lucas Copffman
Previous research has documented male-female gender differences in economically important contexts, including economic preferences (e.g. risk tolerance and altruism), workplace behaviors (e.g. competitiveness and task assignment), and beliefs (e.g. self-confidence). However, there is little work examining gender minorities in these domains. Using best practices for eliciting gender identity, we recruit and identify a large sample of non-binary individuals, men, and women from the US. Our survey instrument adapts many existing paradigms used to identify gender differences in economic preferences, workplace behaviors, beliefs, and experienced discrimination, expanding coverage of these key economic measures to a broader, more inclusive sample. In addition, we elicit beliefs about how men, women, and non-binary people compare on all of these measures, allowing us to measure stereotypes and (in)accuracy of beliefs.
April 30, 2024
“How do same-sex couples affect central cities? “
Jooyoung Kim (jkim266@syr.edu)
Abstract: In the United States, same-sex couples disproportionately live in central cities of metropolitan areas, and their presence has often been reported as an indicator of imminent gentrification. In this paper, I suggest two mechanisms that attract same-sex couples into central cities: income elasticity of housing demand and different preferences for downtown/suburban amenities including child-related amenities and cultural tolerance. Analysis based on American Community Survey data provides evidence for these mechanisms. Further analysis using a shift-share IV shows that metropolitan areas with a higher initial share of same-sex couples downtown experienced a larger increase in average individual income downtown between 2010 and 2017.
May 7, 2024
Labor Market Outcomes of Transgender People in the United States: Evidence from Linked Administrative Data
Max Lee (mclee@sfsu.edu) with Kitt Carpenter and Lucas Goodman
Abstract: TBA
Previous Seminars
2020
April 15, 2020
Ian Burn, University of Liverpool (with Mike Martell)
"Gender Typicality and Sexual Orientation Earnings Differentials"
April 22, 2020
Shuai Chen, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (with Jan van Ours)
"Mental Health Effects of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization"
April 29, 2020
David Schwegman, American University (with Mattie Mackenzie-Liu and Leonard Lopoo)
"Do Foster Care Agencies Discriminate Against Gay Couples? Evidence from a Correspondence Study"
May 6, 2020
Kitt Carpenter, Vanderbilt University (with Gilbert Gonzales Jr. Tara McKay and Dario Sansone)
"Effects of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage for Individuals in Same-Sex Couples"
May 13, 2020
Charlie Whittington (she/her), Human Rights Campaign Foundation (with Dan Stewart (he/him))
"The Moderating Role of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Relationship Between Income and Complications During COVID-19 Infection"
May 20, 2020
Ian Chadd, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (with Billur Aksoy)
"Queer Preferences for Competition"
May 27, 2020
Travis Campbell, University of Massachusetts - Amherst (with Lee Badgett and Everest Brennan)
"Beyond the Gender Binary: Transgender Labor Force Status in the United States 2014-2017"
June 3, 2020
Emily Nix, University of Southern California (with Martin Eckhoff Andresen)
"What Causes the Child Penalty and How Can it be Reduced? Evidence from Same-Sex Couples and Policy Reforms"
June 10, 2020
Matthew Shannon, University College, Dublin
"The Labour Market Outcomes of Transgender Individuals"
June 17, 2020
Connor Redpath, University of California, San Diego
"Access to Marriage Affects Couples’ Assortativeness: Evidence from Same-Sex Marriage Legalization"
June 24, 2020
Michael Martell, Bard College
"Tolerance and the Labor Supply of Gays and Lesbians"
July 1, 2020
Joanne Hadaad, University of Ottawa (with Abel Brodeur)
"Institutions, Attitudes and LGBT: Evidence from the Gold Rush"
July 15, 2020
Ralph Dehaas, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, CEPR, and Tilburg University (with Victoria Baranov and Pauline Grosjean)
"Men. Roots and Consequences of Masculinity Norms"
August 26, 2020
Raquel Fernandez, New York University (with Sahar Parsa and Martina Viarengo)
"Coming Out in America"
September 16, 2020
Roberto Ivo da Rocha Lima Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
"Decision Neuroscience Applied to a Trading Environment: An EEG Approach"
September 23, 2020
Nir Eilam, University of Texas, Austin (with Scott Delhommer)
"PrEP and Moral Hazard"
October 7, 2020
Luca Fumarco and Eva Dils, Tulane University (with Patrick Button, Benjamin Harrell, and David J. Schwegman)
"Gender Identity, Race, and Ethnicity Discrimination in Access to Mental Health Care: Evidence from an Audit Field Experiment"
October 14, 2020
William Delgado, University of Chicago
"Teachers’ Comparative Advantage, School Segregation, and Educational Mobility in Chicago Public Schools"
October 21, 2020
Hyunmin Park, University of Chicago
"Specific Human Capital and Employment Dynamics"
October 28, 2020
Hani Mansour, University of Colorado, Denver
"Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic"
November 18, 2020
Ylva Moberg, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) (with Marie Evertsson and Maaike van der Vleuten)
"The child penalty in same-sex and different-sex couples in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland"
December 2, 2020
Raquel Fernandez, New York University (with Sahar Parsa and Martina Viarengo)
"Coming Out in America"
December 9, 2020
Lucas Tilley will present "The Labor Market and Health Effects of Gender Dysphoria: Evidence from Sweden" (with Ian Burn, Ylva Moberg and Emma von Essen)
December 16, 2020
Sheheryar Banuri (University of East Anglia) "On the process of discrimination in healthcare: A field experiment with Pakistan’s Transgender community" (with Husnain F. Ahmad and Farasat Bokhari)
2021
February 2, 2021
Samuel Mann, Swanswea University
"Sexual Orientation, Political Trust, and Same-Sex Relationship Recognition Policies: Evidence from Europe"
samuel.mann@swansea.ac.uk
February 16, 2021
Marcus Dillender, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Does Place-Based Federal Health Funding Work? Evidence and Lessons from the Fight against HIV/AIDS"
modillen@uic.edu
March 2, 2021
Bridget Hiedemann and Lisa Brodoff, Seattle University
"Marriage Equality and Activity Limitations among Older Adults in Same-Sex Relationships"
bgh@seattleu.edu
March 16, 2021
Travis Campbell, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Health insurance coverage and health outcomes among transgender adults in the U.S."
tbcampbell@umass.edu
March 30, 2021
Silvia Palmaccio, KU Leuven
"Early Labor Market Outcomes of Children in Same-Sex Families: Evidence from Population Data"
silvia.palmaccio@kuleuven.be
April 13, 2021
Joshua Martin, West Virginia University
"The Effect of Same-Sex Partnership Laws on Adoptions and Family Formation in the US"
jcm0067@mix.wvu.edu
April 20, 2021
Max Lee, San Francisco State University
"Schooling and Coming Out: Education as a Coping Mechanism"
mclee@sfsu.edu
May 4, 2021
Billur Aksoy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Hidden Identity and Social Preferences: Evidence From Sexual Minorities"
billuraksoy@gmail.com
May 18, 2021
Raquel Fernandez, New York University (with Sahar Parsa and Martina Viarengo)
"Coming Out in America"
raquel.fernandez@nyu.edu
July 20, 2021
Mike Martell, Bard College
“Labor market differentials estimated with researcher-inferred and self-identified sexual orientation”
August 31, 2021
Billur Aksoy, Christopher “Kitt” Carpenter, and Dario Sansone
"Survey Experiments on LGBTQ Individuals: A Preliminary Design"
September 14th at 12:00 ET:
Moving for Love? Migration in Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Relationships
Etienne Makdissi (etienne.masson.makdissi@mail.utoronto.ca)
September 21 at 12:00 ET:
Heated Tobacco Products (HTP) Taxation and Tobacco Use in Japan and Korea
Shaoying Ma (shaoyingma13@gmail.com), Ce Shang, Kai-Wen Cheng, Hye Myung Lee, Hong Gwan Seo, Sungkyu Lee, Sujin Lim, Sung-il Cho, Shannon Gravely, Steve Xu, Anne C. K. Quah and Geoffrey T. Fong
September 28th at 12:00 ET:
How Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Affect Household Expenditures for Single Female Heads of Households?
Arian Seifoddini (seifoddini@ucdavis.edu)
October 5th at 12:00 ET:
Duration Dependence: Learning from Advance Notice
Div Bhagia (bhagia@bc.edu)
October 12th at 12:00 ET:
Gender Differences in the Cost of Corrections in Group Work
Yuki Takahashi (yuki.takahashi2@unibo.it)
October 19th at 12:00 ET:
Estimating the nature of corruption: evidence from a policy experiment in Brazil
Murilo Ramos (murilo@berkeley.edu)
October 26th at 12:00 ET:
From Taxation to Fighting for the Nation: Historical Fiscal Capacity and Military Draft Evasion during WWI
Luca Bagnato (lucabgn@gmail.com)
November 2nd at 12:00 ET:
Same-Sex Couples and Parental Earnings Dynamics
Rachel Nesbit (rachel.nesbit@census.gov) (with Barbara Downs, Lucia Foster, and Danielle Sandler)
November 9th at 12:00 ET:
The effects of anti-LGBTQ+ curriculums: Evidence from Utah's 'no promo homo' repeal
Santiago Deambrosi (santiagodeambrosi@gmail.com)
November 16th at 12:00 ET:
Do gender-nonconforming peers influence their classmates' life outcomes?
Abigail R. Banan (abanan@purdue.edu)
November 23rd at 12:00 ET:
N/A
December 7th at 12:00 ET:
Employer Sponsored Health Insurance and Labor Market Outcomes for Gay Men: Evidence from the Advent of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis
Conor Lennon (conor.lennon@louisville.edu)
December 14th at 12:00 ET:
The introduction of Prep and HIV: Incidence, Mortality and Heterogeneity
Sebastian Tello-Trillo (dst2c@virginia.edu)
2022
February 1, 2022
“Economic Outcomes for Transgender People in the United States: First Estimates from a Nationally Representative Sample”
Christopher S. Carpenter (christopher.s.carpenter@vanderbilt.edu) with Maxine J. Lee and Laura Nettuno
February 15, 2022
“Elite Endorsement of Emergent Issues in Weak States: Survey Experimental Evidence on Same-sex Marriage in Nepal”
Siddhartha Baral (sbaral@ucsd.edu) with Sarah Rich-Zendel
February 22, 2022
“Identifying Effective Strategies to Improve Livelihoods of LGBTI People” and a panel on Research Opportunities related to Development.
Lee Badgett (lbadgett@econs.umass.edu) with James Heintz
March 1, 2022
“The LGBTQ+ Gap: Recent Estimates for Young Adults in the United States”
Marc Folch (mfolch@uchicago.edu)
March 8, 2022
“The Impact of Sodomy Law Repeals on Crime”
Riccardo Ciacci (riccardo.ciacci@gmail.com) and Dario Sansone
March 15, 2022
“Gender and LGB Pay Gaps in the National Health Service: The Puzzle of Observability and Disclosure”
Karen Mumford (karen.mumford@york.ac.uk)
March 29, 2022
“Do Same-Sex Couples Induce Gentrification?”
Daniel J. Henderson (djhender@cba.ua.edu) with Mia Goodnature and Amanda Ross
April 5, 2022
“Gender Affirming Care and Transgender Health: Evidence fromMedicaid Coverage”
Samuel Mann (samuel.j.mann@vanderbilt.edu) with Travis Campbell and Duc Hien Nguyen
April 12, 2022
“Effects of Legal Same-Sex Marriage on Employer Offers of Domestic Partner Health Benefits”
Ben Harrell (benjamin.harrell@vanderbilt.edu) with Christopher S. Carpenter and Thomas Hegland
April 19, 2022
“Public Health Insurance Expansions and The Spread of Infectious Disease”
Shyam Raman (sr2297@cornell.edu) with Katherine Wen, Ben Harrell, Sam Mann, and Alex Hollingsworth
April 26, 2022
“Intergenerational Mobility of LGBTQ+ Individuals”
Santiago Deambrosi (santiagodeambrosi@gmail.com)
June 14, 2022
Matching on Gender and Sexual Orientation
Edoardo Ciscato and Marion Goussé (marion.gousse@gmail.com)
July 12, 2022
Commuting to work and gender-conforming social norms: evidence from same-sex couples
Sonia Oreffice (s.oreffice@exeter.ac.uk ) and Dario Sansone
August 16, 2022
Do LGBTQ-related Events Drive Individual Online Disclosure Decisions?
Jason Jones (jason.j.jones@stonybrook.edu)
September 6: Conversion Therapy Bans, Suicidality, and Mental Health
Benjamin Harrell (benjamin.harrell@vanderbilt.edu)
September 13: Anti-Discrimination Laws and Mental Health: Evidence from Sexual Minorities
Samuel Mann (Samuel.j.mann@vanderbilt.edu)
September 20: Power to the teens: collective labor supply model with parents and teenager
José Alfonso (jalfonso.munoza@tse-fr.eu)
September 27: Local Income, Race, and Mortality
EK Green (ekgreen42@email.arizona.edu)
October 4: The Effect of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) on Suicide Rates
Hasan Shahid (hshahid1@gsu.edu).
October 11: Mechanisms of Misinformation Diffusion
Jimmy Narang (jimmy.narang@berkeley.edu)
October 18: The Effects of Post-Release Supervision on Crime and Recidivism
By Abigail R. Banan (abanan@purdue.edu)
October 25: Bikesharing, Metro Stations, and House Prices: Evidence from Washington’s Capital Bikeshare System
Xinxin Cao (xinxin_cao@gwu.edu)
November 1: Criminal Activity Nuisance Ordinances and Drug Mortality
Ashley Bradford (asbrad@iu.edu)
November 8: #IamLGBT: Social networks and coming out in a hostile environment
Jan Gromadzki (jangromadzkiecon@gmail.com), Przemyslaw Siemaszko
November 15: Do LGBTQ-related Events Drive Individual Online Disclosure Decisions?
Jason J. Jones (jason.j.jones@stonybrook.edu)
November 29: If You (Re)Build It, Will They Come? Evidence from California Hospitals
Zach Levin (levin611@umn.edu)
December 6
Inclusive Law and Democrats Votes - Evidence from Law of Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.
Luyang Chen (luyang.chen@bristol.ac.uk)
December 13
Understanding Labor Market Discrimination Against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey
Billur Aksoy (billuraksoy@gmail.com) (with Christopher S. Carpenter and Dario Sansone)
December 20
Gender, Sexual Identity, and Competitiveness
Ian Chadd (chaddi@rpi.edu) (with Billur Aksoy)
2023
January 31, 2023
Book Club Hosted by Bitsy Perlman (elisabeth.perlman@census.gov)
February 7, 2023
Settling in the Shadow of Sexual Orientation: Bias and Marital Asset Division
Jennifer Bennett Shinall with John Roberts (jennifer.shinall@vanderbilt.edu)
February 21, 2023
Local Income, Race, and Mortality
EK Green (ekgreen42@email.arizona.edu)
March 7, 2023
Taste-Based Discrimination against Sexual Minorities: Evidence from Information Provision Experiment
Gayane Baghumyan (baghumyangayane@gmail.com)
March 21, 2023
Your place or mine? Private spaces of interaction among people in same-sex relationships and their friends
Mirjam Fischer (mail@mirjamfischer.com)
April 4, 2023
Sexual orientation and entrepreneurship: evidence from Sweden
Erwan Dujeancourt (erwan.dujeancourt@ju.se)
April 18, 2023
Conversion Therapy, Suicidality, and Running Away: An Analysis of Transgender Youth in the U.S.
Travis Campbell (Campbelt1@sou.edu) and Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
May 2, 2023
Does publicly-provided health insurance mitigate the health-at-birth effects of prenatal air pollution?
Anderson Ospino (aospino@ucdavis.edu)
May 16, 2023
Intra-Household Inequality and Tax Planning of Same-Sex Couples
Johannes Köckeis (johannes.koeckeis@fit.fraunhofer.de)
SEPTEMBER 5
The Role of Legal Gender Change on Labor Market Outcomes: A Sibling-Based Comparison of Transgender Individuals
Erwan Dujeancourt (erwan.dujeancourt@ju.se)
September 12
The effects of deferred action for childhood arrivals on labor market outcomes
Nhan Tran (ntran7@binghamton.edu)
September 19
Is Slacktivism Harmless? Unintended Consequences of Social Media Activism
Amanda Bonheur (abonheur@ucsd.edu)
September 26
Government Responses to Scandal: Child Protection Responses and Outcomes After High-Profile Deaths
Alice Heath (alice_heath@hks.harvard.edu)
October 3
Labor Demand and the Supply of College Courses
Jacob Light (jdlight@stanford.edu)
October 10
Neighborhoods and Racial Differences in Policing: Evidence from Stop-and-Frisk
Gerard Domènech-Arumí (gerard.domenech.arumi@ulb.be)
October 17
Persistence of Policy Choices: The Case of Close Referendums
Zach Freitas-Groff (zgroff@stanford.edu)
October 24
Perceived discrimination at work
Hannah Ruebeck (hruebeck@mit.edu)
October 31, 2023
Legalized Same-Sex Marriage and Coming Out: Evidence from Catholic Seminaries
Rohit Ticku (rohit.ticku@eui.eu)
November 14
Gender-based Discrimination in Personal Care Services: Experimental Evidence
Duc Hien Nguyen (duchiennguye@umass.edu)
November 28
The Gender Minority Gaps in Confidence and Self-Evaluations
Billur Aksoy (billuraksoy@gmail.com)
December 5
Impact of Abolishing the Sterilization Requirement for Legal Gender Change on the Trans-population
Rinni Norlinder (rinni.sharma@nek.uu.se)
December 12
Australia’s LGBTIQ Data Landscape and emerging research on LGBTIQ health disparities
Karinna Saxby (karinna.saxby@monash.edu)