Home and Where the Heart Is: Marriage Timing and Joint Home Purchase

Où se trouve le cœur, là est la maison: Calendrier du mariage et achat conjoint d’un logement

Jennifer A. Holland ()
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Jennifer A. Holland: University of Wisconsin–Madison

European Journal of Population, 2012, vol. 28, issue 1, No 4, 65-89

Abstract: Abstract This article evaluates the relationship between the timing of marriage and the purchase of a jointly owned home among Swedish cohabiting couples. Data for this analysis come from the Swedish Housing and Life Course Cohort Study (N = 1,596 couples; 2,006 cohabiting spells). The author develops models to proxy for simultaneity and intentions and test hypotheses about positive and negative and long- and short-run relationships between the two life-course events. The author uses a novel modeling approach, allowing for differences in the risk before, concurrently and after the conditioning event. Results indicate a positive relationship between marriage and joint home purchase and suggest the possibility of an ordering of events: For some couples, formalizing their union through marriage may be a prerequisite for a joint home purchase.

Keywords: Marriage; Housing; Event-history analysis; Sweden; Mariage; Logement; Analyse biographique; Suède (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s10680-011-9242-1

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