For Love and Money? Earnings and Marriage Among Same-Sex Couples
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Marriage premium; Household specialization; Same-sex marriage; Earnings; Sexual orientation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J12 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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