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 …

This paper describes the real wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to variations in real … price have two offsetting effects on wealth. First, the greater the local constant-quality price of housing, the greater the … wealth needed to meet the lender imposed down payment constraint if housing demand is price inelastic. However, increased …

This paper describes the real wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to variations in real … price have two offsetting effects on wealth. First, the greater the local constant-quality price of housing, the greater the … wealth needed to meet the lender imposed down payment constraint if housing demand is price inelastic. However, increased …

In this empirical paper we analyze the link between homeownership across cohorts and the net wealth distribution. In … over cohorts on the distribution of net wealth we impose the homeownership pattern of the US on Germany and ask: What would … particular we are interested in the effect of the pattern of ownership across cohorts. Given that wealth accumulates over the …

wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average … is often used as an argument for policies that foster homeownership. However, the causal link between homeownership and … wealth is difficult to establish due to many potential sources of endogeneity. Utilizing the Household Finance and …