Discount rate specification and the social security claiming decision

BJ Alleva - Soc. Sec. Bull., 2016 - HeinOnline
Choosing the claiming age that maximizes the expected present value of lifetime Social
Security retirement benefits requires, among other criteria, the specification of a rate to use …

Risk, standard deviation, and expected value: when should an individual start social security?

TG Eschenbach, NA Lewis - The Engineering Economist, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In choosing when to start collecting Social Security, the differences in expected net present
values (NPVs) are small—but the corresponding standard deviations are not. Starting earlier …

Social security retirement benefit claiming-age combinations available to married couples

B Alleva - 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
The rules for claiming Social Security retired-worker benefits are complex in large part
because they offer a potential claimant flexibility in choosing a claiming age most to his or …

16. Encouraging longer working lives: a behavioural perspective

RK Weaver - Handbook of Behavioural Change and Public Policy, 2019 - elgaronline.com
Populations in almost all advanced industrial countries–and in most developing countries as
well–are living much longer than in the past. One of the results of this demographic trend is a …

Optimal Claiming of Social Security Benefits

S Diamond, S Boyd, D Greenberg… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Using a lifecycle framework with Epstein-Zin (1989) utility and a mixed-integer optimization
approach, we compute the optimal age to claim Social Security benefits. Taking advantage …

[CITATION][C] An Analytical-Exploratory Approach to a Socially-Optimal, Sustainable, and Balancing Social Security System

RG Hamzaee, SM Dilley, M Wang - Archives of Business Research, 2018