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Home and where the heart is: marriage timing and joint home purchase

Home and where the heart is: marriage timing and joint home purchase
Home and where the heart is: marriage timing and joint home purchase
This article evaluates the relationship between the timing of marriage and the purchase of a jointly owned home among Swedish cohabiting couples. Data for this analysis come from the Swedish Housing and Life Course Cohort Study ( N = 1,596 couples; 2,006 cohabiting spells). The author develops models to proxy for simultaneity and intentions and test hypotheses about positive and negative and long- and short-run relationships between the two life-course events. The author uses a novel modeling approach, allowing for differences in the risk before, concurrently and after the conditioning event. Results indicate a positive relationship between marriage and joint home purchase and suggest the possibility of an ordering of events: For some couples, formalizing their union through marriage may be a prerequisite for a joint home purchase.
humanities, social sciences and law
0168-6577
65-89
Holland, Jennifer A.
41865235-7e0e-4674-ac1f-9569e6a0ff9b
Holland, Jennifer A.
41865235-7e0e-4674-ac1f-9569e6a0ff9b

Holland, Jennifer A. (2012) Home and where the heart is: marriage timing and joint home purchase. European Journal of Population, 28 (1), 65-89. (doi:10.1007/s10680-011-9242-1).

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This article evaluates the relationship between the timing of marriage and the purchase of a jointly owned home among Swedish cohabiting couples. Data for this analysis come from the Swedish Housing and Life Course Cohort Study ( N = 1,596 couples; 2,006 cohabiting spells). The author develops models to proxy for simultaneity and intentions and test hypotheses about positive and negative and long- and short-run relationships between the two life-course events. The author uses a novel modeling approach, allowing for differences in the risk before, concurrently and after the conditioning event. Results indicate a positive relationship between marriage and joint home purchase and suggest the possibility of an ordering of events: For some couples, formalizing their union through marriage may be a prerequisite for a joint home purchase.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 10 August 2011
Published date: February 2012
Keywords: humanities, social sciences and law
Organisations: Social Statistics & Demography

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Local EPrints ID: 363075
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/363075
ISSN: 0168-6577
PURE UUID: f45edeb3-51c2-467e-8e8b-07086800b063

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Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 16:18

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Author: Jennifer A. Holland

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