Arbeitspapier

Mental Health Effects of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization

Sexual minorities have had worse than average mental health, which may have to do with actual or perceived discrimination. Same-sex marriage legalization (SSML) is a typical anti-discrimination policy removing marital restrictions for sexual minorities. We study how this legislation affected mental health of sexual minorities in the Netherlands. Conducting a difference-in-differences analysis, we compare changes in mental health following the legalization between sexual minorities and heterosexuals. We find that SSML improved mental health of both married and non-married sexual minorities, which implies that marriage is not the only channel. Examinations of alternative mechanisms combined with literature suggest that the legislation may also take effect by improving societal tolerance as well as stabilizing partnerships and enriching the choice basket of partnership forms for sexual minorities.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. TI 2021-003/V

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Family and Personal Law
Thema
Same-sex marriage
Mental health
Sexual minorities

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Chen, Shuai
van Ours, Jan
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Tinbergen Institute
(wo)
Amsterdam and Rotterdam
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Chen, Shuai
  • van Ours, Jan
  • Tinbergen Institute

Entstanden

  • 2021

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