Reports: Five Years Later Gay Marriage Working in Mass.
Metro International
May 20, 2009

BOSTON. Marking the five-year anniversary of same-sex marriage licensing in Massachusetts, the Williams Institute of the UCLA School of Law released two studies showing the ruling’s demographic and economic influence on the Bay State.

The first report, titled “Marriage Equality and the Creative Class” shows that younger, predominantly female couples that belong to the creative class — a group defined by Dr. Richard Florida in his book “The Rise of the Creative Class” as a socioeconomic class critical to the economic development of the modern city — are moving to Massachusetts at a rate of 2.5 times the amount before the legislation was enacted.

The second report, “The Business Boost from Marriage Equality” estimates the marriage equality law has contributed $111 million over the last four and a half years to the Bay State economy.

The reports in their entirety are available online at http://www.law.ucla.edu.