study examines the link between housing costs and marriage rate in Iran controlling for other relevant economic determinants … of moments (GMM) estimator, our results reveal that there is a negative relationship between housing costs and marriage …

Housing is a depreciating asset. The rate of depreciation depends on the degree to which households engage in housing … investments. Housing investment expenditures economy-wide are sizable, averaging 45 percent of the value of new home construction … over the past twenty years. The housing bust and recession coincided with a significant decline in housing investment …

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 constitute a fallacy of composition. Such models ignore that changes in housing …

essential to quantify how net migration may slow population adjustments. Housing is also a natural candidate for slowing … attractive to potential migrants. We quantify the influence of migration and housing on urban population dynamics using a dynamic … costs of attracting workers to cities drive slow population adjustments. Housing plays a very limited role. …

themes including Traveller values, autonomy, self-sufficiency and choice and we explore the manner in which the housing … poor housing quality alone. This is also expressed through culturally-inappropriate service provision and the denial of … opportunities to exercise choice and control over their own housing in addition to other spillover effects which can negatively …

Should monetary policy lean against housing market booms? We approach this question using a small-scale, regime …-switching New Keynesian model, where housing market crashes arrive with a logit probability that depends on the level of household …

Assets in tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDA) and housing are two major components of household portfolios. In this … paper, we develop a life-cycle model to examine the interaction between households' use of TDA and their housing decisions … earlier in their lives. On the other hand, housing-related policies, such as a minimum down payment requirement and mortgage …

household indebtedness and housing price fluctuations compared with a monetary policy rule augmented with house price inflation … houses and we introduce news shocks on housing demand. We estimate the model with Canadian data using Bayesian methods. We … find that the introduction of news shocks can generate a housing market boom-bust cycle, the bust following unrealized …