Surveys, Big Data, and Experiments

Dominik Koehler () and Nicholas Menzies ()
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Dominik Koehler: World Bank
Nicholas Menzies: World Bank

Chapter 13 in Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, 2023, pp 299-321 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There is little rigorous quantitative data about the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people in developing countries. This makes the development of policy to improve the welfare of LGBTI people difficult, and it also makes it difficult to know whether sexual orientation and gender identity and expression focused policies and programs are working. Filling this data gap is necessary to understand the development outcomes for LGBTI people. Quantitative data practices exist that can be drawn on to fill the gap, including household surveys, experiments, and big data analysis. Summarizing existing experience, this chapter provides guidance on how to study development outcomes for LGBTI people, by paying attention to the different ways to define sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (SOGIE), and sex characteristics; and collecting samples that allow conclusions to be drawn among LGBTI people, as well as the general population.

Keywords: Lesbian; Gay; Bisexual; Transgender; LGBTI; Sexual orientation; Gender identity; SOGI; Development outcomes; Population size; Surveys; Big data; Experiments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-4166-5_52

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