scholarly journals Exploring the Social Security Benefit Implications of Same-Sex Marriage

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Pollard ◽  
Italo Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Security Benefit ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Exploring the Social Security Benefit Implications of Same-Sex Marriage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Pollard ◽  
Italo Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Social Security Benefit ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Social ◽  
Demographic Methods ◽  
Potential Impact

Same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in the United States on June 26, 2015. Federal legalization of same sex marriage expands the pool of individuals potentially eligible for spousal benefits from Social Security to the estimated 4% of the population that is lesbian, gay, or bisexual. This chapter is a foundational step to better understand the potential impact of the expansion of marriage rights to same-sex couples on Social Security. We primarily use data from the 2011-2015 American Community Survey to describe the economic circumstances of heterosexual and same-sex households. We estimate the anticipated social security benefit amounts for these individuals, as well as eligibility to claim spousal benefits. We estimate the size of the gay and lesbian populations by age and sex from 2017-2040 using standard demographic methods. Finally, we supplement the analyses with new data from the RAND American Life Panel.

scholarly journals Exploring the Social Security benefit implications of same-sex marriage

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-254
Author(s):  
Michael S. Pollard ◽  
Italo Lopez-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Security Benefit ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?

10.3386/w7597 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Gustman ◽  
Thomas Steinmeier
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Social Security Benefit ◽  
The Social

The Social Science of Same-Sex Marriage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Hoy
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Social

Same-Sex Relationships

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna L. Grossman ◽  
Lawrence M. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Family Law ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
The Right ◽  
Constitutional Analysis

This chapter describes what might be the last battleground over “traditional” marriage—same-sex marriage, and the social and legal revolution that brought us from an era in which it was never contemplated to one in which, depending on the state, it is either expressly authorized or expressly prohibited. Same-sex marriage has posed—and continues to pose—a challenge to traditional definitions of marriage and family. But, more importantly, the issue implies broader changes in family law—the increasing role of constitutional analysis; limits on the right of government to regulate the family; and the clash between the traditional family form and a new and wider menu of intimate and household arrangements, and all this against the background of the rise of a stronger form of individualism.

‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene O’Brien
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Organic Community ◽  
German Sociologist ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter examines the implications for Irish Catholicism that the ‘Yes’ vote in the May 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage may have for the social and cultural position of the Catholic church in contemporary Ireland and in the future. His analysis channels the thinking of Ferdinand Tönnies, an early German sociologist and a contemporary of Durkheim and Weber, who used the German words ‘Gemeinschaft’ and ‘Gesellschaft’ to distinguish between two fundamentally different structural paradigms for social relations. O’Brien sees marriage as a core ideological signifier of ideological hegemony, and using the fantasy fiction of Terry Pratchett’s satire on religion entitled Small Gods as a lens, he looks at the referendum as a significant turning point in the definition of marriage, and by extension, in the transformation Irish society from the organic community of the Gemeinschaft, to the more postmodern and pluralist notion of the Gesellschaft.

scholarly journals IS THE SOCIAL SECURITY CRISIS REALLY AS BAD AS WE THINK?

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shantanu Bagchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Incomplete Markets ◽  
Equilibrium Model ◽  
Social Security Benefit ◽  
Social Security Administration ◽  
Tax Base ◽  
Household Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Natural Expansion

Because they ignore the household-level and macroeconomic adjustments associated with longevity improvements, the actuarial projections of the Social Security Administration overestimate the Social Security crisis. Using a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous households and incomplete markets, I show that with these adjustments accounted for, a significantly smaller decline in benefits is needed to balance the Social Security budget. Households respond by delaying retirement and Social Security benefit collection, by working more hours, and by also saving more. In general equilibrium, these effects lead to a natural expansion of Social Security's tax base and generate significant delayed retirement credits, which the actuarial estimates completely overlook.

Redistribution under the Social Security benefit formula at the individual and household levels, 1992 and 2004

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALAN L. GUSTMAN ◽  
THOMAS L. STEINMEIER ◽  
NAHID TABATABAI
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
Social Security Benefit ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Earning ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

AbstractStudies using data from the early 1990s suggested that while the progressive Social Security benefit formula succeeded in redistributing benefits from individuals with high earnings to individuals with low earnings, it was much less successful in redistributing benefits from households with high earnings to households with low earnings. Wives often earned much less than their husbands. As a result, much of the redistribution at the individual level was effectively from high earning husbands to their own lower earning wives. In addition, spouse and survivor benefits accrue disproportionately to women from high income households. Both factors mitigate redistribution at the household level. It has been argued that with the increase in the labor force participation and earnings of women, Social Security now should do a better job of redistributing benefits at the household level. To be sure, when we compare outcomes for a cohort with a household member age 51 to 56 in 1992 with those from a cohort born twelve years later, redistribution at the household level has increased over time. Nevertheless, as of 2004 there still is substantially less redistribution of benefits from high to low earning households than from high to low earning individuals.

What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Right

The authors of this book, sitting as a hypothetical Supreme Court, rewrite the famous 2015 opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, which guaranteed same-sex couples the right to marry. In eleven incisive opinions, the authors offer the best constitutional arguments for and against the right to same-sex marriage, and debate what Obergefell should mean for the future. In addition to serving as Chief Justice of this imaginary court, the book's editor provides a critical introduction to the case. He recounts the story of the gay rights litigation that led to Obergefell, and he explains how courts respond to political mobilizations for new rights claims. The social movement for gay rights and marriage equality is a powerful example of how — through legal imagination and political struggle — arguments once dismissed as “off-the-wall” can later become established in American constitutional law.

scholarly journals The Effects of Changes in Women’s Labor Market Attachment on Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan L. Gustman ◽  
Thomas L. Steinmeier ◽  
Nahid Tabatabai
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Social Security Benefit ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
The Social
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