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House prices and home ownership : a cohort analysis
Bottazzi, Renata; Crossley, Thomas F.; Wakefield, Matthew - 2011
England has very volatile house prices. We use pseudo-panel data spanning multiple house-price cycles over nearly forty years, to assess the extent to which house prices affect access to home ownership by age thirty, and whether differences in ownership rates persist. We find that ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011734502
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House Prices and Home Ownership : A Cohort Analysis
Bottazzi, Renata - 2011
England has very volatile house prices. We use pseudo-panel data spanning multiple house-price cycles over nearly forty years, to assess the extent to which house prices affect access to home ownership by age thirty, and whether differences in ownership rates persist. We find that ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120183
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Buying versus Renting – Determinants of the Net Present Value of Home Ownership for Individual Households
Tabner, Isaac T. - 2016
The tenure decision upon whether to buy or to rent accommodation has long-term consequences for households' financial wellbeing that influence macroeconomic development and stability when the cumulative effects of individual decisions are aggregated across populations. The author explains how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005535
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Parent Housing Wealth, Credit Constraints, and Homeownership Transitions
Begley, Jaclene - 2020
This paper examines how family housing wealth affects homeownership transitions during divergent periods of credit …, larger transfer amounts, and an increased likelihood of transitioning to homeownership during the housing bust, but not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852352
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Consumption and Investment Motives in Housing Wealth Accumulation of Spanish Households
Arrondel, Luc - 2010
The dual motives of housing behavior, consumption and investment make the analysis of housing purchases quite difficult. As a matter of fact, while a larger literature, theoretical and empirical, deals with housing tenure choice by modeling housing consumption demand, few studies have tried to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144252
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Housing and inequality : the case of Luxembourg and its cross-border workers
Claveres, Guillaume; Mathä, Thomas; Pulina, Giuseppe; … - 2020
The rate of homeownership is close to the OECD average in Luxembourg. However, strong house price increases, mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259010
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Do households use home-ownership to insure themselves? : evidence across U.S. cities
Amior, Michael; Halket, Jonathan - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 3, pp. 631-674
Are households more likely to be homeowners when “housing risk” is higher? We show that home-ownership rates and loan … disentangle the contributions of high price levels from high volatilities by building a life-cycle model of home-ownership choices …. We find that higher price levels can explain most of the lower home-ownership. Higher risk in the model leads to slightly …
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On housing, mortgages, and taxation
Kragh-Sørensen, Kasper - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519329
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Borrowing constraints, own labour and homeownership : does it pay to paint your walls?
Lindner, Peter; Mathä, Thomas; Pulina, Giuseppe; … - 2020
Using a dedicated set of questions in the 2014 Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey (LU-HFCS), we show that a substantial share of households contributes their own labour to the acquisition of their main residence. These contributions help households faced with credit constraints,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299081
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Echoes of rising tuition in students' borrowing, educational attainment, and homeownership in post-recession America
Bleemer, Zachary; Brown, Meta; Lee, Donghoon; Strair, … - 2017
-percentage-point decline in homeownership for 28-to-30-year-olds over 2007-15 for these same nine cohorts. The results suggest that states that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689437