Residential Mobility and Mortgages

Sewin Chan

No 5181, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Mortgage applications are a detailed and accurate source of household information that is verified by underwriters, making it a more accurate data source than self-reported survey answers. This paper discusses how mortgage data can be applied to areas of economics outside mortgage finance. As a supplement to variables from the application form, the self-selection of mortgage points is used to infer expected mobility. A duration model of housing spells is estimated, and the points indicator is shown to be highly significant in predicting mobility for low loan-to-value borrowers. The findings demonstrate the potential fruitfulness of using this new data source.

JEL-codes: G12 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-07
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Published as Regional Science & Urban Economics, vol. 26, no. 3-4, pp. 287-311, June 1996

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