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Early Social Security Claiming and Old-Age Poverty

Evidence from the Introduction of the Social Security Early Eligibility Age

View ORCID ProfileGary V. Engelhardt, Jonathan Gruber and Anil Kumar
Journal of Human Resources, July 2022, 57 (4) 1079-1106; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.4.0119-9973R1
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Gary V. Engelhardt is a professor of economics at Syracuse University ().
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Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at MIT and a research associate at the NBER ().
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Anil Kumar is an economic policy advisor and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ().
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vol. 57 no. 4 1079-1106
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.57.4.0119-9973R1
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
History 
  • Received January 1, 2019
  • Accepted May 1, 2020
  • Published online June 17, 2022.

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  1. Gary V. Engelhardt,
  2. Jonathan Gruber and
  3. Anil Kumar
  1. Gary V. Engelhardt is a professor of economics at Syracuse University (gvengelh{at}syr.edu).
  2. Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at MIT and a research associate at the NBER (gruberj{at}mit.edu).
  3. Anil Kumar is an economic policy advisor and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (anil.kumar{at}dal.frb.org).
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Gary V. Engelhardt, Jonathan Gruber, Anil Kumar
Journal of Human Resources Jul 2022, 57 (4) 1079-1106; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.57.4.0119-9973R1
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