RCSSCI 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Estate Tax In The United States
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Are gays and lesbians mainstream" with respect to economic success . Popular culture perpetuates a myth of homesexual affluence. Dink expression characterized the economic situation as one with 2x disposable income with no kids (dependents) to pay for. These were faulty marketing and research techniques to the extreme. The samples done targeted affluent gays and lesbians. Specifically magazine subscribers versus the general population (not just the same heterosexual magazine subscribers) Very difficult to get a standard way of classifying individuals as homosexual. Single lesbians earn less than married lesbians. Gays and lesbians are more likely to be in poverty and to earn less on average than heterosexuals. Cohabiting gay men are more likely to be in poverty or low income than heterosexual cohabiting men. A linear regression is key to weed out the other factors of difference. Cohabiting lesbians are 2. 9x more likely to be low income than their heterosexual counterparts.
