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    Why do home-owners do better?

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    Authors
    Dockery, Michael
    Bawa, Sherry
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Dockery, A. and Bawa, S. 2019. Why do home-owners do better? In: State of Australian Cities Conference, 3-5 Dec 2019, Perth, Australia.
    Source Conference
    State of Australian Cities
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/77146
    Collection
    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Australians who own their own home display favourable outcomes on a range of socio-economic indicators when compared to renters, and substantial benefits of home-ownership also appear to accrue to their children. Whether such effects are causal or simply reflect pre-existing characteristics associated with selection into home-ownership has important implications for decisions to be made by individuals and families, and for policy in light of recent declines in home-ownership rates for younger adults. The literature primarily attributes the better outcomes of those in home-ownership to greater residential stability, particularly in the case of children’s educational attainment, and a greater incentive to invest in the local community, but there is little empirical evidence on the sources of benefits from home-ownership in Australia. Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey (HILDA) this paper employs a range of strategies to test competing hypotheses relating to causal mechanisms and selection effects associated with home-ownership. We focus on indicators of physical and mental health, life satisfaction and, for youth, educational attainment. The results suggest the better physical and mental health outcomes of home-owners reflect selection effects rather than any causal impact of home-ownership on health. However, there is evidence that home-ownership promotes higher life-satisfaction, and of residential stability and parental community engagement associated with parental home-ownership impacting beneficially on outcomes for youth.

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