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Finnish Homes - Through Passages or Traps? Residential mobility and housing choice in Helsinki
Laakso, Seppo; Loikkanen, Heikki A. - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545901
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Do Long Distance Moves Discourage Homeownership? Evidence from England
Ha, Sejeong; Hilber, Christian A. L. - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2013
We hypothesize that as the distance of a residential move increases, the cost of collecting information on the destination housing market rises, the amount and quality of information collected fall, and the chances of making an ill-informed housing purchase decision increases, reducing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696180
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Do long distance moves discourage homeownership? evidence from England
Ha, Sejeong; Hilber, Christian A. L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We hypothesize that as the distance of a residential move increases, the cost of collecting information on the destination housing market rises, the amount and quality of information collected fall, and the chances of making an ill-informed housing purchase decision increases, reducing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126634
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Tenure Choice with Sample Selection: A Note on the Differences among Alternative Samples
Painter, Gary - Lusk Center for Real Estate, Marshall School of Business - 2000
importance ofage and immigrant status and duration as a predictor of homeownership. At the sametime, income effects are similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860990
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Argentina's Housing Market in the 2000s
Cristini, Marcela; Moya, Ramiro; Bermúdez, Guillermo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
In the last three decades, the supply of housing in Argentina has not kept pace with demand. This study analyzes the main drivers of Argentina's housing market and relates them to the macroeconomic environment in order to advance a policy agenda for housing policy reform. The demand for housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944291
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Pathways to Homeownership: An Analysis of the Residential and Homeownership Choices of Black Households in Los Angeles
Gabriel, Stuart A.; Painter, Gary - Lusk Center for Real Estate, Marshall School of Business - 2001
Recent studies have documented substantially depressed levels of homeownership among African-American households. While … the potential role of location choice and locational attributes in the homeownership choice decision. This research …-white homeownership choice gap. However, in other Los Angeles neighborhoods, a sizableendowment-adjusted homeownership gap was shown to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252777
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Heterogeneity within Communities: A Stochastic Model with Tenure Choice
Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Standard explanations for the income heterogeneity within neighborhoods rely on differences of preferences across households and heterogeneity of the housing stock. We propose an alternative and complementary explanation. We construct a stochastic equilibrium sorting model where (1) income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785820
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A Female Cohort Analysis of Housing Choices in Taiwan—Comparing the Female as Head and not as Head of the Household
Hsueh, Li-Min; Yen, Chih-Lung - In: International Real Estate Review 12 (2009) 1, pp. 62-87
the highest homeownership rate and lowest amount of living space per person in their middle years. This is due to persons …-60, for both homeownership and living space. Hence, the female is probably more suitable than the male in terms of … lower homeownership rates. They also benefit less from economic growth. Nevertheless, the gap between the female-headed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005092522
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Housing Demand and Tenure Choice: Evidence from Finland
Loikkanen, Heikki A. - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545825
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Heterogeneity within Communities: A Stochastic Model with Tenure Choice
Ortalo-Magné, François; Rady, Sven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Standard explanations for the income heterogeneity within neighborhoods rely on differences of preferences across households and heterogeneity of the housing stock. We propose an alternative and complementary explanation. We construct a stochastic equilibrium sorting model where (1) income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121224