• DOI:10.1017/S147474721700004X
Corpus ID: 153363999

The financial feasibility of delaying Social Security: evidence from administrative tax data

@article{Goda2017TheFF,
  title={The financial feasibility of delaying Social Security: evidence from administrative tax data},
  author={G. Goda and Shanthi P. Ramnath and J. Shoven and S. Slavov},
  journal={Journal of Pension Economics and Finance},
  year={2017},
  volume={17},
  pages={419 - 436}
}

• G. Goda, Shanthi P. Ramnath, +1 author S. Slavov
• Published 2017
• Business, Economics
• Journal of Pension Economics and Finance

Abstract Despite the large and growing returns to deferring Social Security benefits, most individuals claim Social Security before the full retirement age. In this paper, we use a panel of administrative tax data on individuals likely to financially benefit from delaying Social Security claiming to explore the relationship between Social Security claiming and distributions from tax-advantaged retirement savings accounts. We find that the majority of our sample claim Social Security prior to… Expand