Home-ownership and family formation
Home-ownership and family formation
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房屋所有权和家庭组建
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2006
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C. Mulder
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C. Mulder
在西方国家，拥有住房和组建家庭是紧密联系在一起的。从大多数关于住房所有权过渡的研究中，人们得到的印象是，家庭形成与住房所有权之间的联系是积极的：在几个国家，家庭形成似乎加速了获得住房的过程。然而，也有人认为，在个人或家庭层面上，拥有住房与组建家庭之间可能存在负相关，因为拥有住房的成本可能与养育子女的成本相竞争。研究还发现，欧洲住房拥有率最高的国家也是生育率最低的国家。这篇论文的目的是通过建立一个既包括个人和家庭的微观层面，又包括国家的宏观层面的理论论证，来调和关于住房所有权和家庭形成之间关系的这些看似矛盾的发现。
In Western countries, home-ownership and family formation are closely connected. From most research on the transition to home-ownership, one gets the impression that the association between family formation and home-ownership is positive: family formation seems to speed up the process of acquiring a home in several countries. However, it has also been argued that there might be a negative association between home-ownership and family formation at the individual or household level, because the cost of home-ownership might compete with the cost of rearing children. And it has also been found that those countries in Europe with the highest levels of home-ownership are also those with the lowest fertility. The aim of this paper is to reconcile these seemingly contradicting findings on the association between home-ownership and family formation by developing a theoretical argument comprising both the micro level of individuals and households and the macro level of countries.