Social security benefits as a retirement resource for u.s. near-retirees

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 538-567

  Bridges, Benjamin ^a   Choudhury, Sharmila ^a  

^a SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548319680     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2007.00238.x     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. Board of Trustees, Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds, 2002 Annual Report, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.
2. Bridges, Benjamin Sharmila Choudhury, Social Security as a Source of Retirement Resources for Near-Retirees, ORES Working Paper No. 106, Social Security Administration, Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Washington, DC, 2005 (http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/workingpapers/ wp106.pdf).
3. Butrica, Barbara, Howard M. Iams, James Moore Mikki D. Waid, Methods in Modeling Income in the Near Term (MINT I), ORES Working Paper No. 91, Social Security Administration, Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Washington, DC, 2001 (http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/workingpapers/ wp91.pdf).
4. Butrica, Barbara A., Howard M. Iams Karen E. Smith, It's All Relative: Understanding the Retirement Prospects of Baby Boomers, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, November 2003.
5. Clingman, M. D. J. L. Kunkel, Average Wages for 1985-1990 for Indexing Under the Social Security Act, Social Security Administration, Office of the Chief Actuary, Baltimore, MD, 1992.
6. Congressional Budget Office, Baby Boomers' Retirement Prospects: An Overview, Washington, DC, November 2003.
7. Donkar, E. N., Average Wages for Indexing Under the Social Security Act and the Automatic Determinations for 1979-81, Actuarial Note 103, Social Security Administration, Office of the Chief Actuary, Baltimore, MD, 1981.
8. Engen, Eric, William Gale Cori Uccello, The Adequacy of Household Saving, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, January 2000.
9. Engen, Eric, William Gale Cori Uccello Effects of Stock Market Fluctuations on the Adequacy of Retirement Wealth Accumulation Review of Income and Wealth, 51 (3 397 418, September 2005.
10. Gustman, Alan L. Thomas L. Steinmeier, Effects of Pensions on Savings: Analysis with Data from the Health and Retirement Study, Working Paper No. 6681, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, August 1998.
11. Haveman, Robert, Karen Holden, Barbara Wolfe Andrei Romanov, The Sufficiency of Retirement Savings: Comparing Cohorts at the Time of Retirement, Pension Research Council Working Paper No. 14, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, September 2006.
12. Kennickell, Arthur B. Annika E. Sunden, Pensions, Social Security, and the Distribution of Wealth, Federal Reserve Board, Finance and Economics Discussion Series Working Paper No. 1997-55, Washington, DC, 1997.
13. Leimer, Dean R., ORES Working Paper No. 103, Historical Redistribution Under the Social Security Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Programs, Social Security Administration, Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Washington, DC, 2003 (http://www.ssa.gov/ policy/docs/workingpapers/wp103.pdf).
14. Moore, James Olivia Mitchell Projected Retirement Wealth and Saving Adequacy in O. Mitchell, B. Hammond A. Rappaport (eds Forecasting Retirement Needs and Retirement Wealth, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2000.
15. Panis, Constantijn Lee Lillard, Near-Term Model Development, Draft Final Report, SSA contract No. 600-96-27335, RAND, Santa Monica, CA, 1999.
16. Scholz, John Karl, Ananth Seshadri, Surachai Khitatrakun Are Americans Saving 'Optimally' for Retirement? Journal of Political Economy, 114 (4 607 43, August 2006.
17. Smith, James P Trends and Projections in Income Replacement during Retirement Journal of Labor Economics, 21 (4 755 81, 2003.
18. Smith, Karen, How Will Recent Patterns of Earnings Inequality Affect Future Retirement Incomes? American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC, May 2003.
19. Smith, Karen, Eric Toder Howard Iams Lifetime Distributional Effects of Social Security Retirement Benefits Social Security Bulletin, 65 (1 33 61, 2003-04.
20. Social Security Administration, Fast Facts and Figures About Social Security, 2006, Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Washington, DC, 2006a.
21. Social Security Administration, The Annual Statistical Supplement to the Social Security Bulletin, Office of Policy, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Washington, DC, 2006b (http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/statcomps/ supplement/2006).
22. Toder, Eric, Lawrence Thompson, Melissa Favreault, Richard Johnson, Kevin Perese, Caroline Ratcliffe, Cori Uccello, Timothy Waidmann, Jillian Berk, Romina Woldermariam, Gary Burtless, Claudia Sahm Douglas Wolf, Modeling Income in the Near Term: Revised Projections of Retirement Income Through 2020 for the 1931-1960 Birth Cohorts, SSA Contract No. 600-96-27332, The Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, June 2002 (http://www.urban.org/ uploadedpdf/410609_modelingincome.pdf).
23. Weller, Christian Edward N. Wolff, Retirement Income: The Crucial Role of Social Security, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC, 2005.
24. Wolff, Edward N., Retirement Insecurity: The Income Shortfalls Awaiting the Soon-to-Retire, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC, 2002.
25. Wolff, Edward N., The Adequacy of Retirement Resources among the soon-to-retire, 1983-2001, Working Paper No. 472, Levy Economics Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 2006.