Dario Sansone

Same-sex marriage is legal in 39 countries Line chart showing the cumulative number of countries legalizing same-sex marriage from 2000 to 2025, with the y-axis from 0 to 40 countries and the x-axis from 2000 to 2025. The line rises from near zero in 2000 to 39 by June 2025. Annotations note: Netherlands was the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001; South Africa has been the only African country to do so since 2006; Argentina was the first Latin American country in 2010; and Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia in 2025. Caption says data are as of June 2025 from government sources and news articles. Data source in the footer: Pew Research Center (2025); website OurWorldinData.org/lgbt-rights; licensed CC BY.

Almost 40 countries have legalized same-sex marriage—

The Netherlands was the first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001. Since then, almost 40 other countries have followed suit.

You can see this in the chart, based on data from Pew Research.

Join us to learn everything about the signaling mechanism! Important for both candidates and recruiting committees!

Super excited for the inaugural summit of LGBTQ+ Economists and Allies in Asia-Pacific (LEAP)!

Come and join us in beautiful Melbourne on May 13-14, 2026!

❗𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟒 𝐃𝐞𝐜❗

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📢EEA pleased to welcome 4 new members to MinE Committee: Dunli Li (UCL), Anastasia Litina (University of Macedonia), Nicholas Palma (Anglia Ruskin University), and Yaprak Tavman (University of York)
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🗓️Join them on Mon, Oct 27 @ 15:30 CET for a virtual session on their research
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🥇Congrats Donia Kamel, awarded EEA's MinE Best Paper Award 2025 📝Between Arab and White: Syrians and the Naturalization Law
👏also to runners-up @sbagagli.bsky.social Kristina Manysheva, Joan Jennifer Martinez
🙏 Hub for Equal Representation – H.E.R. (LSE) for funding
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Thanks for the shout-out!

Households with intersex members (representing nearly 3 percent of Chile's population) have substantively lower incomes than those without. Previous work shows "significant workplace rejection and discrimination." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @ercio.bsky.social et al.

📢 Call for MinE Committee members!

MinE Committee welcomes (self) nominations from all economists who will foster & promote a culture of diversity & inclusion in the European economics community.

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EEA congrats Marie-Pascale Grimon for being awarded the Outstanding Paper Award, funded by our MinE Committee, at 5th Virtual Discrimination & Diversity Workshop. More info on her paper, the other winning paper & the workshop here:
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Thanks for sharing our research! @ercio.bsky.social

Proportion of individuals reporting experiences of rejection across intersex and endosex.

A look at the experiences of intersex individuals in Mexico reveals disparities affecting their health and livelihoods. Intersex people are born with physical sex characteristics that don’t fit typical definitions of male or female bodies. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Had a great time presenting and attending the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings!

The quality of presentations was impressive, and I received valuable feedback on my research with @alisto.bsky.social and @ercio.bsky.social on measuring attitudes toward sexual minorities 🏳️‍🌈

doi.org/10.48550/arX...

🚨New in PNAS Nexus: We analyze nationally representative data from Mexico on intersex individuals—1.6% of the pop. 📊

Findings show major disparities in mental health, workplace rejection & violence. Urgent need for inclusive policy.

📄 doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

#Intersex #LGBTQI #HealthEquity

Prejudice is common in modern societies.

Reducing prejudice is difficult to do, particularly in a cost-effective & scalable manner.

Can AI help reduce prejudice?

My new working paper w @semrasevi.bsky.social, @mbosley.bsky.social & Crabtree examines this question!

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Now that #PAA2025 is over, why not think about submitting your work to the Queer Demography session I'm co-organising with @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social at @bspsuk.bsky.social?
We welcome abstracts on LGBTQIA+ populations at any stage of development.
Deadline: May 9th
www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

📢EEA's Education Committee opens 4th edition of TEACHING AWARDS for academic economists who make a significant contribution to spreading knowledge on economics through their teaching
ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/news/eea-education-committee-2025-awards-teaching-economics
Nomination deadline: April 30

Thanks to Francesco Berlingieri and Matija Kovacic for the invitation and to all seminar participants for the valuable feedback! @ec.europa.eu

Great to have had the opportunity to present at the European Commission Joint Research Centre on my recent work with @ercio.bsky.social and @alisto.bsky.social, which examines the sources of taste-based discrimination against gay workers in Chile 🏳️‍🌈

📢Registration is now open for the Spring Term sessions of the RES #DoctoralTrainingProgramme!

Our #DTP includes #expertworkshops on skills necessary for #PhDstudents in #Economics and masterclasses in important areas of Economic #research.

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A big thank you to @mortenkthomsen.bsky.social and @chiccorampazzo.bsky.social for the kind invitation to share our work during #LGBTQ+ History Month!

It was a pleasure to present my latest research with @ercio.bsky.social and @alisto.bsky.social on attitudes toward sexual minorities in Chile at the University of Oxford today 🏳️‍🌈

Proud of this piece of work!

With the irreplaceable @fedetrastulli.bsky.social

LGBT+ political representation involves critical factors like party ideology, activism, and visibility.

We interviewed several Italian LGBT+ politicians to explore how they navigate these dynamics👇

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📢 The Call for Papers for the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop (17-18 June 2025) hosted by @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk is now open!

🔗 More info:
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🗓 Deadline: 10 March 2025

Don't miss the chance to contribute!

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Thank you! :-)

@informs.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️My new #LGBTQ study on support for transgender individuals in the workplace is now in print in Management Science! 🏳️‍🌈

Despite evidence of misreporting, the majority of Americans are comfortable with transgender managers and support nondiscrimination protection #EconSky

doi.org/10.1287/mnsc...

📢 Participate in the RES Culture Survey! 📢
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