Delays in Claiming Social Security Benefits

By Courtney C. Coile, Peter A. Diamond, Jonathan Gruber, Alain Jousten. 2002

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Social Security and Retirement (2000, background): “As we show in Coile and Gruber (2000), this is a fallacy of composition, and for any given individual the peak value is just the sum of accruals to the peak SSW age.”
Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations (2016, unknown): “Social security benefits pose a potential problem as there are financial incentives to delay take-up to age 65 (Coile et al. 2002).”
Labor supply responses to marginal Social Security benefits: Evidence from discontinuities (2009, background): “Additionally, Coile et al. (2002) provide an excellent analysis of the benefit take-up decision decoupled from the retirement decision.”
Does the Social Security Earnings Test Affect Labor Supply and Benefits Receipt? (2000, background): “As Coile, Diamond, Gruber and Jousten (1999) show, it is optimal to delay claiming beyond the date of initial benefits entitlement for a wide class of preference parameters, since benefits are actuarially adjusted for delay.”
Future Social Security Entitlements and the Retirement Decision (2007, background): “This assumption also has the advantage that it is the interest rate which Coile et al. (2002) argue would be needed”