Lee Badgett, Professor and Director

Center for Public Policy and Administration / Economics
414 Thompson Hall       
(413) 545-3162    
lbadgett@pubpol.umass.edu

Education: Ph.D. in Economics. UC Berkeley, 1990

Research Interests: labor economics, employment discrimination, economics of sexual orientation, same-sex marriage

M. V. Lee Badgett is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She also serves as the research director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law. She is the author of When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage (NYU Press, 2009) and Money, Myths, and Change: The Economic Lives of Lesbians and Gay Men (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and co-editor of Sexual Orientation Discrimination.

Courses Taught: PUBP&ADM  605 - Economics & Public Policy; PUBP&ADM  610 - Capstone