Howard M Iams

Biographic Data

ID4270326
NAMEHoward M Iams
GIVEN NAMESHoward M
FAMILY NAMEIams
SIGNATUREIAMS H M
AFFILIATIONSUnited States Social Security Administration
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS41
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The Growing Socioeconomic Gap in Lifetime Social Security Retirement Benefits

    Open AccessChristopher R Tamborini, Gayle L Reznik et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2021References: 4

    Objectives Increasing socioeconomic disparities, including in life expectancy, have important implications for the U.S. Social Security program. This study examined inter- and intracohort trends in Social Security retirement benefits, paying special attention to how lifetime benefit trajectories by socioeconomic circumstance shift across cohorts encompassing current and future retirees. Methods Using a dynamic microsimulation model based on repre…

  • Longevity‐related Options for Social Security

    Open AccessGayle L Reznik, Kenneth A Couch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2018Cited by: 1References: 4

    We consider the distributional implications of Social Security policy changes in the context of increases in life expectancy and differential mortality. Using a robust microsimulation model, we examine how several options for raising the retirement age, including a scenario that applies a mortality adjustment in combination with such policies, affect different types of individuals and households. Policy changes are simulated for Social Security b…

  • Are Generation X’ers Different than Late Boomers? Family and Earnings Trends among Recent Cohorts of Women at Young Adulthood

    Open AccessChristopher R Tamborini, Howard M IamsARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2011Cited by: 7References: 18

  • Income Adequacy and Social Security Differences between the Foreign-Born and U.S.-Born

    Open AccessLee M Cohen, Lee Cohen et al.ARTICLEInternational Migration Review2007References: 5

    This paper projects retirement income and Social Security taxes and benefits among the foreign-born and U.S.-born in the United States. Focusing on the Depression and the late baby boom birth cohorts, we find that foreign-born persons have higher poverty rates than the U.S.-born, and as a group do not receive higher lifetime net benefits from Social Security than do the U.S.-born. However, persons from the late baby boom cohort who immigrated aft…

  • The Impact of Minority Group Status on the Projected Retirement Income of Divorced Women in the Baby Boom Cohort

    Barbara A Butrica, Howard M IamsARTICLEJournal of Women & Aging2003

    Using projections from the Social Security Administration's Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT1), we examine the characteristics and retirement income of white non-Hispanic, black non-Hispanic, and Hispanic divorced women in the baby boom cohort. Although we find significant differences in retirement income for divorced women of different racial and ethnic groups, the characteristics associated with higher or lower retirement income are very …

  • Reducing women's poverty by shifting social security benefits from retired couples to widows

    Open AccessSteven H Sandell, Howard M IamsARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1997

    This article examines proposals to transfer Social Security benefits from married couples to surviving widows in terms of effects on poverty rates, trust fund expenditures, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) expenditures. Because widows are much more likely to be living in poverty than older married women, it makes sense to consider Social Security benefits in a lifetime framework and transfer some benefits from the time both the husband and …

  • Employment Sector Sex Differential in Wage Structures for 1960 and 1970

    Howard M IamsARTICLESociological Focus1976References: 14

    This paper measures sex differentials in the attainment of wages from social characteristics in the decade of the 1960s. Reviewing published evidence, the hypothesis is that the wage structures would be more equal for publicly employed men and women. Using the 1960 and 1970 Public Use Samples, this research applied standardization and analysis of covariance to estimated hourly wages regressed upon education, age, and occupational prestige. The wa…

  • Decomposition of Differences

    Open AccessHoward M Iams, Arland ThorntonARTICLESociological Methods & Research1975Cited by: 33References: 7

    This paper examines methods of decomposing a difference in levels between groups for a dependent variable such as income. Applied to regression equations, this technique estimates the contribution to the difference from divergent characteristics and divergent rates of converting characteristics into the dependent variable. The consequences of an 'interaction' component being present in the decomposition is examined. The paper, using data from the…