Dario Sansone
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) @University of Exeter
Synopsis
This presentation will provide the most up-to-date estimates of the size, demographic characteristics, and family structures of LGBTQ+ individuals. It will then describe sexual minority individuals’ educational and occupational choices, with a specific focus on the representation of sexual minorities in STEM, as well as their workplace experiences. It will also summarize what is known about the size, direction, and sources of wage differentials related to variation in sexual orientation and gender identity. It will conclude by discussing the economic costs of homophobia and transphobia: discrimination against LGBTQ+ people leads not only to health and economic disparities, but to an inefficient allocation of talents and widespread costs for firms, consumers, and governments.
Biography
Dario Sansone is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Exeter (UK), and a Research Affiliate at IZA. He received his undergraduate and masters degree in Economics from the University of Turin (Italy), and a Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University (USA). He then worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Vanderbilt University (USA), and has also worked as a consultant and a researcher for several institutions including the Development Research Group (DEC) and the Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) at the World Bank, CeRP – Collegio Carlo Alberto, and LISER.
He is an applied microeconomist with interests in LGBTQ issues, Machine Learning, Gender, and Education, with research appearing in leading economic journals, as well as presenting at international conferences and in academic seminars at universities around the world. His research has also received mainstream media coverage from, among the others, The Economics, The Guardian, and Forbes.
Date: 20 Jun 2022
Location: Virtual
Time: 14:00