Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1111/reec.12018
Title: Housing Tenure Transitions of Older Households: What is the Role of Child Proximity?
Authors: Lee, Kwan Ok 
Painter, Gary
Keywords: Social Sciences
Business, Finance
Economics
Urban Studies
Business & Economics
LIVING ARRANGEMENTS
ADULT CHILDREN
PARENTS
CONSUMPTION
CORESIDENCE
Issue Date: 1-Mar-2014
Publisher: WILEY
Citation: Lee, Kwan Ok, Painter, Gary (2014-03-01). Housing Tenure Transitions of Older Households: What is the Role of Child Proximity?. REAL ESTATE ECONOMICS 42 (1) : 109-152. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1111/reec.12018
Abstract: This study examines the role of proximity of children to their parents and recent moves of children within a proximate distance in housing tenure transitions of older households. This study is the first to investigate the interplay between health status of older households, moves of their children and a household's decision to make housing tenure transitions. In doing so, we rely on longitudinal household data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics with residential location information at the census tract level. The results demonstrate that after controlling for the financial and demographic characteristics of children, living near children reduces the likelihood of making a housing tenure transition for older households, but that the impact of distance is not monotonic with respect to the degree of geographic distances. The results also demonstrate that if a child enters or moves closer to her or his parents' home, it increases the probability that older households exit homeownership. Finally, we find no evidence that children's moves mitigate the likelihood that their older parents whose health deteriorates become renters. © 2013 American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association.
Source Title: REAL ESTATE ECONOMICS
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/234238
ISSN: 1080-8620
1540-6229
DOI: 10.1111/reec.12018
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