Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108599 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1215
Publisher: 
Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF), Istanbul
Abstract: 
We investigate whether initial differences in speed of entry into homeownership lead to longlasting differences in ownership between generations. Our data span nearly forty years and multiple cycles of England's very volatile house prices. We document that ownership rates at thirty have differed substantially, with a significant negative association with prices. To assess the persistence of these differences we use synthetic cohort methods. Measurement error problems - attenuation and other biases - complicate the analysis. Two methods of dealing with this both indicate that cohorts with low ownership rates at thirty close about 80% of the ownership gap by forty.
Subjects: 
homeownership
synthetic cohort data
measurement error
JEL: 
R21
R31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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