1. What it means to decompose the income gap in an economic sense. Use examples about decomposing the income gap between same-sex couples and different-sex couples. Specify the factors the income gap is attributed to based on the research and explain how each of those factors affects the overall observed income gap.

 

2. Why do people sort themselves into specific occupations? Describe how people make these choices and what factors they consider when they make these choices.

3.Explain why it is a bigger problem to have different-sex couples being entered incorrectly as same-sex couples compared to the reverse (where same-sex couples are entered incorrectly as different-sex couples).

4.Self-identification allows respondents to choose among different options the sexual orientation category that fits them best. Explain one benefit of using the self-identified sample for research and one downside as well.

5. Hypothesize why we might not see the wage gaps between self-identified gay vs heterosexual men and between self-identified lesbian vs heterosexual women.