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Coming out in America

Raquel Fernández [1], Sahar Parsa [2] interviewed by Tim Phillips [3], 26 November 2021

Two new papers pinpoint the election of 1992 as a turning point in the attitudes of Americans to same-sex relationships, and ask, what has caused this change? Raquel Fernandez and Sahar Parsa of NYU tell Tim Phillips about the complex relationship between political and social attitudes.

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Fernández, R and Parsa, S. 2021. 'Gay Politics Goes Mainstream: Democrats, Republicans, and Same-Sex Relationships [4]'. CEPR

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Topics:  Frontiers of economic research [9]

Tags:  Cultural change [10], heterogeneous effects [11], LGBTQ [12], social attitudes [13], political parties [14], public opinion [15]

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