Journal article
Elderly female-headed households and the decision to trade down
Journal of housing economics, Vol.8(4), pp.285-300
12/01/1999
DOI: 10.1006/jhec.1999.0255
Abstract
Results from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics show that elderly women appear to be much more circumspect than men about making housing changes. Some of this apparent difference occurs because elderly women have low levels of financial assets. Elderly women also appear to be much more likely than men, when they do move, to dissave out of home equity. Yet what appears on the surface to be a gender difference in the decision to dissave in later life turns out upon closer examination to occur because of divorce and the event of widowhood, © 1999 Academic Press.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Elderly female-headed households and the decision to trade down
- Creators
- Isaac Megbolugbe - Fannie MaeJ Sa-Aadu - University of IowaJames Shilling - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of housing economics, Vol.8(4), pp.285-300
- DOI
- 10.1006/jhec.1999.0255
- ISSN
- 1051-1377
- eISSN
- 1096-0791
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/1999
- Academic Unit
- Finance
- Record Identifier
- 9984380411402771
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