ABSTRACT
The economics of marriage equality is a good example of the consequences of prejudice. Taking both factors together, this means the economic cost of sexuality prejudice is likely to be higher than the survey evidence implies. The previous year, a World Bank case study of India concluded that the prejudice against LGBTQ+ imposed a significant cost on the economy. The areas of hard prejudice in which sexuality and gender overlap have to do with economic participation. The failure to protect employment for LGBTQ+ workers means major economic damage. Even when comfortably out, and freed from the additional stress of hiding who you are, the social conventions of a work environment can still create difficulties for an LGBTQ+ employee. It also led to one of the largest-scale attacks on author's research as an economist. Even though executions are rejected by most societies, the disproportionately high suicide rate for LGBTQ+ people shows that sexuality prejudice is particularly damaging.
