Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … changes in consumption. However, this might be a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing wealth …

Much of the literature on the effect of housing wealth on consumption has been embedded in a simple life-cycle model in … which housing price changes work as a "wealth effect". In such models, windfall gains in housing always lead to positive … wealth have distributional consequences between those planning to sell their house and those planning to buy a house. Further …

Housing wealth is about one half of household net worth, and consumption is a considerable fraction (about two thirds …) of Gross Domestic Product in the United States. Empirically, movements in housing wealth are associated with movements in … wealth and consumption are linked together. A sizable portion of the comovement between housing wealth and consumption …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of housing wealth on consumption by focusing on the impact of home …-equity extraction. We develop a household consumption decision model to illustrate the differential effect of home-equity extraction …, relative to net home equity, on consumption. The home-equity extraction channel is also shown to vary with household …