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    Intergenerational transfers and home ownership outcomes: Transmission channels and geographic differences

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    2025-10-20
    Authors
    Ong ViforJ, Rachel
    Clark, W.A.V.
    Phelps, Christopher
    Date
    2022
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Ong ViforJ, R. and Clark, W.A.V. and Phelps, C. 2022. Intergenerational transfers and home ownership outcomes: Transmission channels and geographic differences. Population, Space and Place. 29(1): e2624.
    Source Title
    Population, Space and Place
    DOI
    10.1002/psp.2624
    ISSN
    1544-8444
    Faculty
    Faculty of Business and Law
    School
    School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT200100422
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89783
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Previous research has shown that the home ownership status of parents matters for the likelihood of a child becoming an owner, and other research has studied how financial intergenerational transfers affect the transition to ownership. We extend these existing studies by estimating the effect of financial transfers on the probability of becoming an owner as well as the role of in-kind transfers. We also analyse how the impacts of different intergenerational transmission channels vary across neighbourhoods of advantage and disadvantage and discuss the implications for inequality in access to ownership. Drawing on a large panel data set from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, we offer three new findings. First, we show that financial transfers made concurrently with home purchases play a more important role than lagged transfers and that in-kind transfers are also an important part of the process of gaining ownership. Second, we note that in-kind transfers are more effective for raising home ownership prospects in areas with high socioeconomic status, while financial transfers appear to be more effective in middle-class neighbourhoods. Third, children from disadvantaged backgrounds are least likely to be assisted into home ownership by intergenerational transfers.

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