Sexual Orientation and Neighborhood Quality: Do Same-Sex Couples Make Better Communities?

Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More?

Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More? We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while cohabiting heterosexuals save more than their married counterparts. In a household savings model, we interpret this homosexu...

Same sex, same skills? Sexual orientation and human capital investments in marriage markets

Gay men and lesbians work less and earn less in the labor market than heterosexual men, but work more and earn more than heterosexual women. Same-sex couples share market work more equally and have fewer children than different-sex couples. This paper identifies marriage markets as a theoretical source of these differences. The paper characterizes marital matching and pre-marital human capital ...

Assisted Reproduction in Same Sex Couples

M.V. Sauer (ed.), Principles of Oocyte and Embryo Donation, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-2392-7_22, © Springer-Verlag London 2013 In recent years a growing recognition of same sex unions as culturally and socially acceptable has led inevitably to a parallel acceptance of such unions as a foundation for family. Advances in gay rights, the liberalization of legal restraints, and the increasing availabi...

[Gestational surrogacy for same-sex couples].

• Center for Surrogate Parenting (CSP) is the first center in the world to help a same-sex couple in 1989. Sensible Surrogacy also supports same-sex couples. They believe that regardless of the gender of your partner, everyone who wants to be a parent should be able to have a child. • In general, religious and conservative groups tend to be opposed to surrogacy and consider it to be “anti-life....

Same-sex Couples Marry in Massachusetts