and homeownership. The cost of shelter is an important determinant of whether youth live independently (apart from parents … and other nonrelated adults), and the cost of homeownership relative to renting is important to the tenure decision … lowered the homeownership rate among young households by 23 percent, which is equivalent to slowing the time to first …

lender imposed borrowing constraints. The data set is a panel of youth age 20-33 for the years 1985-90. Our methods differ … constraints affect the tendency to own a home. In our sample of youth, 37% of households are constrained even after choosing their …

This paper describes the real wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to variations in real … for a down payment. Using a panel data set for youth age 20-33 for the years 1985 through 1990 we find that the combined …

This paper describes the wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to their eventual housing … choices. We develop a data set that links wealth profiles of youth with constant- quality house prices and tenure choice. A … panel data set is compiled for youth age 20-33 for the years 1985 through 1990. We construct wealth profiles for each …

school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …

trials of summer youth employment programs in Chicago and Philadelphia to demonstrate how multiple experiments can help …; youth at higher risk of socially costly outcomes experience larger benefits. Identifying more interventions that combine …

In this paper I investigate the use of different search methods by unemployed youth. I present a job search model which …