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Homeownership and Unemployment: The Roles of Leverage and Public Housing Paul Flatau,. Digest — Non-technical summaries of 4-8 working papers per month Reporter — News about the Bureau and its activities. Become a subscriber NBER Research Disclosure Policy. Close. Activities. NBER activities are organized into Programs and Working Groups. Aging. Asset Pricing. Behavioral Finance.
Abstract. In 1990, as Michael Sherraden was writing Assets for the Poor, the homeownership rate in the United States hovered around 64 percent, and concerns about the vitality of the US housing sector were growing.The 1980s had seen a drop in overall homeowner- ship rates, in part due to stagnant incomes and declining affordability, and the Savings and Loan banking crisis had shaken the public.
After three decades of being relatively constant, the homeownership rate increased over the period 1994 to 2005 to attain record highs. The objective of this paper is to account for the observed boom in ownership by examining the role played changes in demographic factors and innovations in the mortgage market which lessened downpayment requirements. To measure the aggregate and distributional.
The Homeownership Rate over the Past Decade Monday, January 9, 2017 The housing bust and the accompanying Great Recession (2007-09) led to a sharp decline in the rate of homeownership.
The mortgage interest deduction and its impact on homeownership decisions Christian A. L. Hilber London School of Economics and Tracy M. Turner Kansas State University This version: April 10, 2013 We thank Lance Bachmeier, Colin Cameron, Steve Cassou, Paul Coomes, John Crespi, Steve Gibbons, Richard Green, Bob Helsley, Hilary Hoynes, Dwight Jaffe, Doug Krupka, Dong Li, Stan Longhofer, Jim.
Previous research seems to indicate that homeownership increases individual welfare, but it is difficult to control for all other factors that may influence and bias the results. Based on panel data from Danish surveys on living conditions from the years 1976, 1986 and 2000, the paper presents an analysis of homeownership and subjective well-being. Favouring homeownership is an important part.
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