What Same-Sex Adoption Laws Can Tell Us About the Gender Wage Gap in the United States

被引：1

作者：

Levendis, John ^{[1
]}

Lowen, Aaron ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Loyola Univ, Coll Business, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA

[2] Grand Valley State Univ, Dept Econ, Grand Rapids, MI 49503 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF FAMILY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES | 2023年 / 44卷 / 02期

关键词：

Discrimination; Gender; Sexual orientation; Wage differentials; ORIENTATION DISCRIMINATION; EARNINGS; PERSONALITY; MOTHERHOOD; MEN; PARENTHOOD; MARRIAGE; COMPETE; PENALTY; INCOME;

D O I：

10.1007/s10834-022-09835-2

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Gender wage gaps are frequently explained as resulting from direct discrimination, employers' preferences over personality traits, and differing labor force attachment. We rely on a natural quasi-experiment using exogenous changes in state-level, same-sex adoption laws to distinguish between the competing explanations of the gender wage gap. Estimates from a differences-in-differences model show the wage gap between lesbians and heterosexual women shrank or inverted in those states which legalized adoption by same-sex couples. The wage gap did not change for men. This supports the parenthood hypothesis as a viable explanation for a portion of the gender wage gap.

引用

页码：473 / 489

页数：17

共 50 条

[1] What Same-Sex Adoption Laws Can Tell Us About the Gender Wage Gap in the United States
John Levendis
Aaron Lowen
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2023, 44 : 473 - 489
[2] What international experience can tell US courts about same-sex marriage
McReynolds, Anjuli Willis
UCLA LAW REVIEW, 2006, 54 (04) : 1073 - 1105
[3] Gender Politics and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate in the United States
Smith, Miriam
SOCIAL POLITICS, 2010, 17 (01): : 1 - 28
[4] Intragroup Differences of the Non-Religious: Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage and Same-Sex Adoption in the United States
Frame, Nicole
JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, 2021, 68 (09) : 1509 - 1524
[5] Intragroup Differences of the Non-religious: Attitudes Towards Same-Sex Marriage and Same-Sex Adoption in the United States
Frame, Nicole
JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, 2021, 68 (13) : 2285 - 2300
[6] Occupational Achievements of Same-Sex Couples in the United States by Gender and Race
Del Rio, Coral
Alonso-Villar, Olga
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, 2019, : 704 - 731
[7] What can kinematics tell us about the affective states of animals?
Guesgen, M. J.
Bench, C. J.
ANIMAL WELFARE, 2017, 26 (04) : 383 - 397
[8] What can Andreev bound states tell us about superconductors?
Millo, Oded
Koren, Gad
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES, 2018, 376 (2125):
[9] Bridging the translational gap: what can synaptopathies tell us about autism?
Molloy, Ciara J. J.
Cooke, Jennifer
Gatford, Nicholas J. F.
Rivera-Olvera, Alejandro
Avazzadeh, Sahar
Homberg, Judith R. R.
Grandjean, Joanes
Fernandes, Cathy
Shen, Sanbing
Loth, Eva
Srivastava, Deepak P. P.
Gallagher, Louise
FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE, 2023, 16
[10] Sex, laws, and inequality: what India can teach the United States
Nussbaum, MC
DAEDALUS, 2002, 131 (01) : 95 - 106

← 1 2 3 4 5 →