Housing cost burden (the ratio of housing cost to household income) is examined using data from the 2001 Survey of Consumer Finance. Results of ordered logistic regression show that singles and single parent families were less likely to have an affordable housing cost burden than couples with no...

What is the role of heterogenous house-price expectations for boom-bust cycles in the housing market? We exploit a unique Dutch panel data set on households' house price expectations and their consumption, savings and housing choices for the period 2003-2016. This period was characterized by a...

This paper estimates a lifecycle model of consumption, housing choice, and migration in the presence of aggregate and regional shocks, using the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The model delivers structural estimates of moving costs by ownership status, age, and family size...