Trends in Working and Claiming Behavior at Social Security's Early Eligibility Age by Sex

Abstract

For this working paper, the author uses a merged internal research file of administrative data from the Social Security Administration to examine men’s working and retired-worker benefit claiming behavior at and around Social Security’s early eligibility age of 62, dis-aggregated by lifetime earnings decile. The author defines various combinations of working and benefit-claiming behavior at or near age 62, for which she presents statistics indicating trends in behavior patterns for men born in the years from 1937 through 1944. This paper follows up ORES Working Paper No. 114, which details the study methodology and presents summary findings on men’s and women’s working and claiming behavior.