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- Title
Forsaking all others? The effects of same-sex partnership laws on risky sex.
- Authors
Dee, Thomas S.
- Abstract
One conjectured benefit of a marriage-like legal status for same-sex couples is a reduction in the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STI). In this study, I discuss how such a policy might influence risky sexual behaviour and STI rates. I also present reduced-form empirical evidence on whether same-sex partnership laws have reduced STI rates, using country-level panel data from Europe. The results suggest that these laws led to statistically significant reductions in syphilis but not in infections that are not sexually transmitted. However, their effects on the incidence of gonorrhoea and HIV were also smaller and statistically imprecise.
- Subjects
EUROPE; UNITED States; SAME-sex marriage laws; CIVIL union laws; PREVENTION of sexually transmitted diseases; PSYCHOLOGY of gay people
- Publication
Economic Journal, 2008, Vol 118, Issue 530, p1055
- ISSN
0013-0133
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0297.2008.02160.x