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Same-Sex Married Tax Filers After Windsor and Obergefell

Overview of attention for article published in Demography, June 2018
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Title
Same-Sex Married Tax Filers After Windsor and Obergefell
Published in
Demography, June 2018
DOI 10.1007/s13524-018-0684-5
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Robin Fisher, Geof Gee, Adam Looney

Abstract

This article provides new estimates of the number and characteristics of same-sex married couples after U.S. Supreme Court rulings in 2013 and 2015 established rights to same-sex marriage. The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service subsequently ruled that same-sex spouses would be treated as married for federal tax purposes. Because almost all married taxpayers file joint tax returns, administrative tax records provide new information on the demographic characteristics of married same-sex couples. This study provides estimates of the population of same-sex tax filers drawn from returns filed in 2013, 2014, and 2015, using methods developed by the U.S. Census Bureau to address measurement error in gender classification. We estimate that approximately 0.48 % of all joint filers in 2015 were same-sex couples, or approximately 250,450 couples.

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Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Professor 2 10%
Other 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 6 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 38%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 19%
Psychology 1 5%
Unknown 8 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 April 2023.
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#1,420,644
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Outputs from Demography
#385
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#31,969
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Outputs of similar age from Demography
#14
of 26 outputs
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