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Why Do Women Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?

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Alicia H. Munnell
Mauricio Soto

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If individuals continue to withdraw completely from the labor force in their early 60s, a large and growing number will be hard pressed to maintain an adequate standard of living throughout retirement. Economic and demographic pressures are gradually eroding key sources of retirement income at the same time that increases in life expectancy mean that people can expect to live for 20 years, on average, after they stop working. And averages do not tell the whole story. Nearly one third of women and almost one fifth of men will live into their 90s...

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Paper provided by Center for Retirement Research in its series Issues in Brief with number ib2005-35.

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Date of creation: Oct 2005
Date of revision: Oct 2005
Handle: RePEc:crr:issbrf:ib2005-35

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  1. Steven A. Sass & Wei Sun & Anthony Webb, 2008. "When Should Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits?," Issues in Brief ib2008-8-4, Center for Retirement Research, revised Mar 2008. [Downloadable!]
  2. Steven A. Sass & Wei Sun & Anthony Webb, 2007. "Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early? Ignorance or Caddishness?," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2007-17, Center for Retirement Research, revised Oct 2007. [Downloadable!]
  3. Alicia H. Munnell & Natalia Zhivan, 2006. "Earnings and Women’s Retirement Security," Working Papers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College wp2006-12, Center for Retirement Research, revised Jun 2006. [Downloadable!]
  4. Alicia H. Munnell & Alex Golub-Sass & Nadia Karamcheva, . "Strange But True: Claim Social Security Now, Claim More Later," Issues in Brief ib2009-9-9, Center for Retirement Research. [Downloadable!]
  5. Alicia H. Munnell & Alex Golub-Sass & Nadia Karamcheva, . "Strange But True: Claim and Suspend Social Security," Issues in Brief ib2009-9-11, Center for Retirement Research. [Downloadable!]
  6. Adeline Delavande & Robert Willis, 2007. "Managing the Risk of Life," Working Papers wp167, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center. [Downloadable!]
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