Housing and children: simultaneous decisions?—a cohort study of young adults’ housing and family formation decision

Journal of Population Economics - Tập 25 - Trang 349-366 - 2010
Cecilia Enström Öst1,2,3
1Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
2Institute for Housing and Urban Studies and Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
3Swedish Social Insurance Inspectorate, Stockholm, Sweden

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This study contributes to earlier research on homeownership and childbearing by taking into account the potential simultaneity between these two life events. A dataset comprising three different Swedish birth cohorts suggests that these are events that are indeed simultaneous. Different tests indicate that taking this simultaneity into account gives an overall statistically significant improvement of the model fit. However, this result is most obvious for those young adults who faced increasing problems on the housing market. The childbearing decision of these cohorts also seems to be more sensitive to changes in the user cost.

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