caa a22 4500 445864117 CHVBK 20180317145452.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11150-011-9122-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11150-011-9122-9 Sexual orientation and household financial decisions: evidence from couples in the United States [Elektronische Daten] [Brighita Negrusa, Sonia Oreffice] We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household financial decisions using 2000 US Census data, and find that lesbian couples pay higher annual mortgages relative to house value than do heterosexual or gay couples. We also estimate that cohabiting heterosexuals pay more than their married counterparts. We link this homosexual-specific differential to homeowners' propensity to save. This differential reflects the gender composition of same-sex households, and their very low fertility, in addition to the precautionary motives increasing cohabiting couples' propensity to save relative to married ones. Evidence from retirement and social security income of older couples exhibits the same pattern of differentials by sexual orientation and cohabiting status. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Sexual orientation nationallicence Mortgage to house value nationallicence Household decisions nationallicence Propensity to save nationallicence Negrusa Brighita RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA aut Oreffice Sonia Universidad de Alicante and IZA, Alicante, Spain aut Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/4(2011-12-01), 445-463 1569-5239 9:4<445 2011 9 11150 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-011-9122-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-011-9122-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Negrusa Brighita RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Oreffice Sonia Universidad de Alicante and IZA, Alicante, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Review of Economics of the Household Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/4(2011-12-01), 445-463 1569-5239 9:4<445 2011 9 11150 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer