This paper reviews the literature that describes the micro-level economic and social
consequences of homeownership. We adopt an interdisciplinary approach and include …

There has been little systematic treatment of demographic variables in the housing literature.
This paper reviews methods used to include demographic variables in demand systems. It …

Residential relocation is the household decision that generates housing consumption
changes. It is not merely a decision about changing locations; it is also a decision about …

A major objective of many neighborhood revitalization programs is to increase
homeownership. Conventional wisdom holds that this is one of the best ways to stabilize …

There is a substantial research literature on residential mobility in general, and the role of
housing space in triggering moves in particular. The authors extend that research to mobility …

Using a 1996 national survey of housing in China and a multilevel modelling technique, we
examine housing tenure choice in transitional urban China where households have been …

This paper utilizes microdata to directly quantify the impact of mortgage underwriting criteria
on individual homeownership propensities. To determine whether a family is constrained by …

Almost all the work to date on tenure changes, specifically the move from rent to own, has
been derived from cross-sectional analysis of this important housing market decision …

We show that past inflation experiences strongly predict homeownership within and across
countries. First, we collect novel survey data, which reveal inflation protection to be a key …

Theoretical work suggests that families live in owner-occupied housing if their investment
demand for housing exceeds their consumption demand for housing. Using household data …