| Title |
Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Couples and Family Formation
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Demography, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13524-014-0361-2 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mircea Trandafir |
| Abstract |
It has long been debated how legalizing same-sex marriage would affect (different-sex) family formation. In this article, I use data on OECD member countries for the period 1980-2009 to examine the effects of the legal recognition of same-sex couples (through marriage or an alternative institution) on different-sex marriage, divorce, and extramarital births. Estimates from difference-in-difference models indicate that the introduction of same-sex marriage or of alternative institutions has no negative effects on family formation. These findings are robust to a multitude of specification checks, including the construction of counterfactuals using the synthetic control method. In addition, the country-by-country case studies provide evidence of homogeneity of the estimated effects. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 4 | 27% |
| Brazil | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 9 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 12 | 80% |
| Scientists | 2 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
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| United States | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 31 | 94% |
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| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 24% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 12% |
| Researcher | 3 | 9% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 9% |
| Professor | 2 | 6% |
| Other | 5 | 15% |
| Unknown | 8 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Social Sciences | 12 | 36% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 8 | 24% |
| Psychology | 3 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 7 | 21% |
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