Public Pension Benefits Claiming Behavior: New Evidence from the Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement

Satoshi Shimizutani, 諭 清水谷, Takashi Oshio and 隆士 小塩

No 573, CIS Discussion paper series from Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This paper explores the public pension claiming behavior of the Japanese. First, we perform financial simulations and estimate the expected utility, depicting the typical patterns of pension benefits over a life cycle. We show that the optimal retirement age depends on the beneficiaries’ mortality risk, discount rate, initial wealth, and risk attitude. Second, we use individual-level data from the Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement to examine empirically the determinants of the take-up timing. We find supportive evidence that most of the factors examined in the simulation are indeed significantly associated with early claiming of pension benefits for wage earners.

Keywords: Claiming behavior; Pension benefit; Survival probability; Risk attitude; Japanese Study on Aging and Retirement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2012-10
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