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Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe

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  • Marco Albertini
  • Marco Tosi
  • Martin Kohli

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Housing careers have important consequences for individuals’ well-being. The present study focuses on the role of parents’ housing careers in affecting the way and extent to which they provide economic support to their adult children. By adopting a family life course perspective, it shows that while housing tenure has relatively little effect on parents’ transfer behaviour, mobility between different tenures can elicit or suppress intergenerational support; moreover, the quality of the house positively affects intergenerational co-residence. Support received to acquire a home along one’s life course has an important demonstration effect: those parents who have received their home as a gift or have received economic support for buying it are more prone to provide help to their adult children. The empirical results do not allow to identify macro-contextual conditions that shape the effect of parents’ housing careers on intergenerational support, but they show that the demonstration effect plays only a marginal role in Southern Europe.

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  • Marco Albertini & Marco Tosi & Martin Kohli, 2018. "Parents’ housing careers and support for adult children across Europe," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(2), pages 160-177, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:33:y:2018:i:2:p:160-177
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1363875
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    1. Doron Shiffer-Sebba & Hyunjoon Park, 2021. "US baby boomers’ homeownership trajectories across the life course: A Sequence Analysis approach," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 44(43), pages 1057-1072.

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