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Title: Has homeownership been inflated? The role of variable household formation in distorting homeownership rates between groups and over time

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Publication Year: 2006

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Abstract: Conventional definition of homeownership is based on the share of households, which ignores the variable effects of household formation. We study whether such omission leads to a distorted assessment of trends and differentials inhomeownership. In the 1990s, many groups experienced a decline in household formation, which indirectly elevated the overall homeownership rate by removing renters. Moreover, Asians have very low household formation but highhomeownership rates, which are in contrast to Latinos and African Americans. We find that higher homeownership rates for Asians stems from their suppressed level of renter household formation and their greater share of adults not forming households. The overall conclusion is that, without accounting for household formation, current measures of homeownership are a deficient indicator of housing success.

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Authors: Myers, Dowell; Yu, Zhou

Publisher: University of Southern California

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Race and Ethnicity

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