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Lee Badgett


Lee Badgett
Professor
414 Thompson
(413) 545-3162, (413) 545-0159
lbadgett@econs.umass.edu

education:

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1990
B.A., Economics, University of Chicago, 1982

professional experience

Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Director, Center for Public Policy and Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Research Director, Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, University of California, Los Angeles

research interests

Labor Economics, Economics of Sexual Orientation

Selected publications

When Gay People Get Married, NYU Press, 2009
Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men
, University of Chicago Press, 2001