Research
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (sole-authored unless otherwise indicated)
"Economic Vulnerability of Sexual Minorities: Evidence from the US Household Pulse Survey" (with Leanne Roncolato) Population Research and Policy Review, 42 (2023): 28.
"Tolerance and the Labor Supply of Cohabiting Gays and Lesbians" (with Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Leanne Roncolato) Journal of Demographic Economics, 88,4 (2022): 535-562.
"Gender Typicality and Sexual Minority Labor Market Differentials" (with Ian Burn) British Journal of Industrial Relations, 60,4 (2022): 784-814.
*Winner, AEA CSQIEP Outstanding Research Paper in LGBTQ+ Economics; Special Mention (runner-up), European Economic Association MinE Best Paper Award
"Labor Market Differentials Estimated with Researcher-Inferred and Self-Identified Sexual Orientation" Economics Letters, 205 (2021): 109959.
"For Love and Money? Earnings and Marriage among Same-Sex Couples" (with Peyton Nash) Journal of Labor Research, 41,3 (2020): 260-294.
“The Role of Work Values and Characteristics in the Human Capital Investment of Gays and Lesbians" (with Ian Burn) Education Economics, 28,4 (2020): 351-369.
“Age and the New Lesbian Earnings Penalty” International Journal of Manpower , 41,6 (2020): 649-670.
“Share of Household Income and Time Use of Women in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Households” (with Leanne Roncolato) Eastern Economic Journal, 46,3 (2020): 414-437.
"A Labor of Love: The Impact of Same-Sex Marriage on Labor Supply” (with Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Leanne Roncolato) Review of Economics of the Household, 18,2 (2020): 265-283.
“Identity Management: Worker Independence and Discrimination Against Gay Men” Contemporary Economic Policy, 36,1 (2018): 136-148.
“Self-Identified Sexual Orientation and the Lesbian Earnings Differential in the U.S.” (with Mary Eschelbach Hansen) Review of Social Economy, 75,2 (2017): 159-180.
“The Homosexual Lifestyle: Time Use in Same-Sex Households” (with Leanne Roncolato) Journal of Demographic Economics, 82,4 (2016): 365-398.
“How ENDAs Extend the Workweek: Legal Protection and the Labor Supply of Behaviorally Gay Men” Contemporary Economic Policy, 32,3 (2014): 550-577.
“Do ENDAs End Discrimination for Behaviorally Gay Men?” Journal of Labor Research, 34,2 (2013): 147-169.
“Differences Do Not Matter: Exploring the Wage Gap for Same-Sex Behaving Men” Eastern Economic Journal, 39,1 (2013): 45-71.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
"Progress in Understanding the Economics of Same-Sex Households and the Promise of Inclusivity" (with Leanne Roncolato) in Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, edited by Klaus Zimmerman. Springer, forthcoming.
Other Invited Publications
“In the Middle of the Margin: The LGB Middle Class” in The American Middle Class: An Economic Encyclopedia of Progress and Poverty, edited by Robert Rycroft, 48-52. ABC-CLIO, 2017.
“Are Gays and Lesbians ‘Mainstream’ with Respect to Economic Success?” in The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century, edited by Robert Rycroft, 254-271. ABC-CLIO, 2013.
Work in Progress and Under Review (please email me for drafts)
"Sexual Orientation, Economic Vulnerability, and Mental Health"
"Economics Coming Out" (a book length project with Leanne Roncolato)
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