Do long distance moves discourage homeownership? evidence from England

Ha, Sejeong and Hilber, Christian A. L. (2013) Do long distance moves discourage homeownership? evidence from England. SERC Discussion Papers, SERCDP0141. Spatial Economics Research Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

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Abstract

We hypothesize that as the distance of a residential move increases, the cost of collecting information on the destination housing market rises, the amount and quality of information collected fall, and the chances of making an ill-informed housing purchase decision increases, reducing the likelihood of such a purchase. Since owning relative to renting is associated with a much larger financial commitment and much higher transaction costs, the propensity to own can be expected to decrease with the distance moved. Using data from the Survey of English Housing from 1993 to 2008, we document that, consistent with our prior, an increase in the distance moved by one standard deviation decreases the probability that a household owns the next home by 3.2 percentage points.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://www.spatialeconomics.ac.uk/SERC/publication...
Additional Information:	© 2013 The Authors
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Journal of Economic Literature Classification System:	J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies > J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R21 - Housing Demand R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R2 - Household Analysis > R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
Sets:	Departments > Geography and Environment Research centres and groups > Spatial Economics Research Centre
Identification Number:	SERCDP0141
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) , Welsh Assembly Government
Date Deposited:	28 Jul 2014 08:38
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/58307/

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