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

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作者：
John Levendis
Aaron Lowen
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[1] Loyola University New Orleans,College of Business
[2] Grand Valley State University,Department of Economics
来源：
Journal of Family and Economic Issues | 2023年 / 44卷
关键词：
Discrimination; Gender; Sexual orientation; Wage differentials; J16 Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination; J31 Wage Level and Structure • Wage Differentials; J71 Discrimination; K36 Family and Personal Law; K38 Human Rights Law • Gender Law;
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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.
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页数：16
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