TY  - UNPD
A1  - Hubener, Andreas
A1  - Maurer, Raimond
A1  - Mitchell, Olivia S.
T1  - How family status and social security claiming options shape optimal life cycle portfolios : [Version October 20, 2013]
T2  - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2013,07
N2  - Household decisions are profoundly shaped by a complex set of financial options due to Social Security rules determining retirement, spousal, and survivor benefits, along with benefit adjustments that vary with the age at which these are claimed. These rules influence optimal household asset allocation, insurance, and work decisions, given life cycle demographic shocks such as marriage, divorce, and children. Our model generates a wealth profile and a low and stable equity fraction consistent with empirical evidence. We also confirm predictions that wives will claim retirement benefits earlier than husbands, while life insurance is mainly purchased by younger men. Our policy simulations imply that eliminating survivor benefits would sharply reduce claiming differences by sex while dramatically increasing men’s life insurance purchases.
T3  - CFS working paper series - 2013, 07 
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/32484
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-324844
IS  - Version October 20, 2013
PB  - Center for Financial Studies
CY  - Frankfurt, M.
ER  -