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Wealth Accumulation and Housing Choices of Young Households: An Exploratory Investigation / Donald R. Haurin, Susan M. Wachter, Patric H. Hendershott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haurin, Donald R.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w5070.
- NBER working paper series no. w5070
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Wealth Accumulation and Housing Choices of Young Households
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1995.
- Summary:
- This paper describes the wealth accumulation of American youth and relates this behavior to their eventual housing choices. We develop a data set that links wealth profiles of youth with constant- quality house prices and tenure choice. A panel data set is compiled for youth age 20-33 for the years 1985 through 1990. We construct wealth profiles for each household over the six year period and indicate how wealth varies with labor supply, marriage, fertility, gender, education, race/ethnicity, and tenure choice. We find renters' wealth accumulates rapidly in the year before and year of first homeownership. The factors related to this increase are marriage, increased labor supply by married women, and gifts/inheritances. Of particular interest is the finding of an inverse U-shaped relationship between the local real price of housing and middle and upper income renters' wealth and married female labor supply. Also, youth in high housing cost localities tend to live in groups at a greater rate compared to those in low cost areas.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 1995.
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