Intergenerational Transmission of Homeownership: The Roles of Gifts and Continuities in Housing Market Characteristics

Amanda Helderman and Clara Mulder
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Amanda Helderman: Amanda@amandahelderman.com.
Clara Mulder: Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences,University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, C.H.Mulder@uva.nl

Urban Studies, 2007, vol. 44, issue 2, 231-247

Abstract: Parental homeownership influences the younger generation's housing tenure through parental gifts and similarities in housing market circumstances (for example, urban-rural differences), among other mechanisms. This paper contributes to the distinguishing of these mechanisms and their relative importance, using the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study data and logistic regression analysis of housing tenure. Both gift-giving and continuities in housing market characteristics appear to be important mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmission of homeownership. After controlling for these mechanisms and other individual and parental characteristics, a strong effect of parents' housing tenure on children's housing tenure remains, which may be partly attributed to mechanisms such as socialisation.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1080/00420980601075018

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