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Title: Finance and Welfare: The Effect of Access to Credit on Family Structure

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2014

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ISSN: 1556-5068

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2464530

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Abstract: This paper documents that mortgage market deregulation helps mitigate the risk of population aging by affecting a foundational family-level decision: the choice to have children. Using a US federal regulator ruling, I show that young households fully exposed to mortgage market deregulation increase their probability of purchasing a home and having a child by six percentage points. Supplemental tests reject alternative hypotheses based on income or housing wealth growth and, instead, suggest that access to space is the relevant economic mechanism. Collectively, the evidence indicates that increased access to mortgage credit impacts the total number of children in the economy.

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Authors: Hacamo, Isaac

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Other

Countries: United States