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Effects of Access to Legal Same-Sex Marriage on Marriage and Health: Evidence from BRFSS / Christopher Carpenter, Samuel T. Eppink, Gilbert Gonzales Jr., Tara McKay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carpenter, Christopher.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24651.
- NBER working paper series no. w24651
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Effects of Access to Legal Same-Sex Marriage on Marriage and Health
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
- Summary:
- We exploit variation in access to legal same-sex marriage (SSM) across states and time to provide novel evidence of its effects on marriage and health using data from the CDC BRFSS from 2000-2016, a period spanning the entire rollout of legal SSM across the United States. Our main approach is to relate changes in outcomes for individuals in same-sex households (SSH) [i.e., households with exactly two same-sex adults], which we show includes a substantial share of gay and lesbian couples, coincident with adoption of legal SSM in two-way fixed effects models. We find robust evidence that access to legal SSM significantly increased marriage take-up among men and women in SSH. We also find that legal SSM was associated with significant increases in health insurance, access to care, and utilization for men in SSH. Our results provide the first evidence that legal access to SSM improved health for adult gay men.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2018.
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