% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw9140, title = "The Effects of Subjective Survival on Retirement and Social Security Claiming", author = "Hurd, Michael D and Smith, James P and Zissimopoulos, Julie M", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "9140", year = "2002", month = "September", doi = {10.3386/w9140}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w9140", abstract = {According to the life-cycle model, mortality risk will influence both retirement and the desire to annuitize wealth. We estimate the effect of subjective survival probabilities on retirement and on the claiming of Social Security benefits because delayed claiming is equivalent to the purchase of additional Social Security annuities. We find that those with very low subjective probabilities of survival retire earlier and claim earlier than those with higher subjective probabilities, but the effects are not large. The great majority of workers claim as soon as they are eligible.}, }