Discrimination based on sexual orientation: A review of the literature in economics and beyond

Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 161-186

  Lee Badgett, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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