This paper shows, using data from the Family Income and Expenditure Survey, that housing credit has become increasingly … housing and enabled them to do so at an earlier age. However, it also shows that the greater availability of housing credit … has increased households' housing loan repayment burden, which has resulted in their cutting back on their other …

) countries and also broken down by the age group of the household head. We find that pre-retirement households (households with a … in recent years, due partly to the fact that tax breaks for housing purchase, reforms in the housing loan market since … the early 2000s, and expansionary monetary policy enabled Japanese households to purchase housing at a younger age than …

Japan's household saving rate showed great volatility, was often low and even negative, and was high only during the 25-year … trends over time in, Japan's household saving rate via various socioeconomic and policy variables. This seems to suggest that …