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Burn, Ian; Martell, Michael E. – Education Economics, 2020
We show that educational outcomes of sexual minorities are consistent with efforts to mediate future discrimination. Gay men and lesbians obtain more years of schooling than heterosexual men and women, between 0.6 and 1.2 years. This difference is robust to controlling for observable characteristics for men but not women. Gay men and lesbian women…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Gender Differences, Human Capital, Educational Attainment