Uncovering a Quantitative Economic History of Gays and Lesbians in the United States
探讨为何美国男女同性恋者的经济史缺乏主流量化研究,认为原因在于研究方法标准与政府数据收集方式,而非学科偏见。
There has been no substantive mainstream research done on the economic history of gays and lesbians in the United States. I argue that the reason has more to do with the discipline's standard of appropriate research methodology and use of concrete evidence than with an inherent bias against doing research on gays and lesbians. This is primarily the result of the way government data were collected. Research that will be deemed credible by quantitative economic historians can only be done using reliable data, and such historical data regarding gays and lesbians are simply not yet available.