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Homeownership and ill-being

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  • Bloze, Gintautas

    (Department of Business and Economics)

  • Skak, Morten

    (Department of Business and Economics)

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Social policy aims to relieve the ill-being of low income groups, and housing policies in many European countries promote homeownership for low-income households. Previous economic research on subjective well-being seems to indicate that homeownership increases subjective well-being, but little research is done on the relations between homeownership and ill-being. The present study tries to fill some of this gap by use of panel data from three Danish surveys on living conditions in the years 1976, 1986 and 2000.

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  • Bloze, Gintautas & Skak, Morten, 2011. "Homeownership and ill-being," Discussion Papers on Economics 5/2011, University of Southern Denmark, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Ill-being; subjective well-being; homeownership;
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    JEL classification:

    • D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General
    • R20 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - General

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