Low Fertility and the Housing Market: Evidence from Swedish Regional Data

Malmberg, Bo

doi:10.1007/s10680-009-9205-y

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“…However, Mulder (2006) argues that the relationships between housing and demographic changes are two-sided. Lindh and Malmberg (2008), and Malmberg (2010Malmberg ( , 2012 find that the causal effects are time-dependent and cyclical. Malmberg (2010) shows that population aging has stronger impact on housing price in the first decades of the 21st century than in the last decades of the 20th century.…”

Section: Past Studies On Fertility and Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, two issues, if unresolved, may cloud the results. The first issue is related to the endogeneity in housing price and fertility rate, which could influence the direction of causality (Lindh and Malmberg, 2008;Malmberg, 2010Malmberg, , 2012Mulder, 2006). The second issue concerns the mechanisms via which housing price effects are transmitted into families' childbearing decisions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Do housing options affect child birth decisions? Evidence from Taiwan

2016

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This study aims to empirically test the effects of various housing options, which include renting, owning, living with parents/siblings, living in houses bought by parents and living in staff housing, on fertility decisions of families. This study uses micro-data obtained from the Taiwanese Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) surveys for the period from 1999 to 2007 to empirically test three hypotheses relating housing options to childbearing decisions. Using families living in rented houses as the control group, we find that homeowners have their first child at an older age, and families living with their parents or sibling become parents at a younger age. The results are robust and consistent after controlling for the district fixed effects and the marriage year fixed effects. We test the housing price shocks on the childbearing decisions for families who were married or bought houses during or after the housing boom period in 1987, and find that the asymmetric housing price effects on fertility decisions are correlated with the marriage event, but not the house purchase event.

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Section: Past Studies On Fertility and Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Do housing options affect child birth decisions? Evidence from Taiwan

2016

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“…They find that both population decline and population ageing put downward pressure on housing prices. Malmberg (2010) argues that low birth rate and population ageing lead to the changes of age structure, which subsequently leads to a slowing in the growth in house prices of Sweden.…”

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Housing price, elderly dependency and fertility behaviour

Hui

Zheng

2012

Habitat International

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“…Since a declining labour force is only one of the myriad ways in which a changing population age structure will affect European economies, Bo Malmberg (2010) examines the relationship between low fertility and another mechanism-the housing market. Drawing on panel data from Swedish municipalities, he shows that an ageing population (one result of low fertility) may lead to a slowing in the growth of house prices, partly because the elderly have a lower demand for housing than do younger age cohorts.…”

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confidence: 99%