Sexual identity and wellbeing: a distributional analysis

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

August 15, 2019

Summary:

The relationship between sexual identity and wellbeing is analysed in an unconditional panel quantile setting. There is heterogeneity across sexual identity and gender for homosexuals and, for all but lesbians, sexual minorities are less satisfied than heterosexuals below the median of the wellbeing distribution. Meanwhile, bisexuals of any gender are the least satisfied of any sexual group, and this is apparent across the entire wellbeing distribution. In contrast, the happiest individuals who report an ‘other’ sexual orientation are happier than the happiest heterosexuals.

Published in

Economics Letters

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 181 , p.133 -136

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.04.023

ISSN

1651765

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Link

- https://lib.essex.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1614015?lang=eng


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