higher levels of unemployment although home-owners tend to be unemployed less. The choice of housing tenure affects moving … mobility and unemployment, and discusses effects of government intervention in the housing market. In addition, it is shown …

job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In … using NLSY data from 1978 until 2005. We find that more relaxed housing lending conditions, particularly lower downpayment …

the importance of familial wealth for household wealth accumulation and housing wealth in particular. A back …-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that dynastic home equity increases housing wealth inequality among young adults by 20%. …

-run SOEP panel data and consider the impact of all housing transitions, whether or not they involve a change in housing tenure … or geographical movement, on both life satisfaction and housing satisfaction. Controlling for individual characteristics … housing satisfaction. This latter is particularly large for renters who become homeowners and move geographically, and for …

We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output … competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size, we compute housing by summing across the marginal products of non … housing across locations. We implement our methodology on newly-built single-family homes in France. We find that the …