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Related: About this forumGay Myths Derailed by Economist Badgett’s Data Research
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-20/gay-myths-derailed-by-economist-badgett-s-data-research.htmlEconomist Lee Badgett, 54, is the director of the University of Massachusetts
Economist Lee Badgett says equal treatment for gays and lesbians can benefit economies from Virginia to India. For the past two decades, shes mined data in her quest to prove it.
My long-run goal has always been the same: Its using research to help create a more just world, said Badgett, 54, director of the University of Massachusetts at Amhersts Center for Public Policy and Administration. When policy makers can pick out their favorite myth about gay people to hang their policy on, its pretty hard to argue against.
The World Bank is collaborating with Badgett to analyze homophobia as a hurdle to development in emerging markets. Shes been called as an expert witness before Congressional subcommittees and in a court case that found Californias same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. Colleagues credit her with publishing the first research tackling gay and lesbian issues as economic rather than sociological.
Lee was absolutely a pioneer, said Gary Gates, a distinguished scholar with the Williams Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles, which focuses on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy, and where Badgett is also a distinguished scholar. There was no one in economics who was really thinking about these issues.
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Gay Myths Derailed by Economist Badgett’s Data Research (Original Post)
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