scholarly journals The Changing Association Between Homeownership and the Transition to Parenthood

Demography ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Tocchioni ◽  
Ann Berrington ◽  
Daniele Vignoli ◽  
Agnese Vitali
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Event History ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mortgage Credit ◽  
First Child ◽  
Micro Level

Abstract The literature suggests a positive link between homeownership and the transition to parenthood. However, in recent decades, couples' preference for becoming homeowners before having their first child has been undermined by rising housing unaffordability and housing uncertainty. An archetypal example is Britain, where homeownership rates among young adults have fallen substantially as a result of low wages, unemployment, reductions in the availability of mortgage credit, and rising house prices. This situation has produced a housing crisis. Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008) and the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (2009–2016), we apply multilevel, discrete-time event-history techniques to a sample of women aged 18–42. We investigate whether and how the link between homeownership and entering parenthood has changed in Britain in recent decades. Our findings reveal that in comparison with the 1990s, the likelihood of becoming a parent has declined among homeowners, whereas childbearing rates among private renters have remained stable. Thus, owner-occupiers and private renters have become more similar in terms of their likelihood of entering parenthood. Overall, our findings question the classical micro-level assumption of a positive link between homeownership and transition to parenthood, at least among Britain's “Generation Rent.” These findings are subsequently interpreted in terms of increased housing uncertainty.

scholarly journals Producing Working-Life Histories in the UKHLS and BHPS

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Wright
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Working Life ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Working Lives

The document describes a Stata algorithm for producing working-life histories for participants in the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS). It also describes in detail questionnaire items related to working lives from the two studies.

Intra-Couple (Dis)Similarity in Gender Role Attitudes and the Transition to Parenthood in Germany

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ansgar Hudde ◽  
Henriette Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
German Family ◽  
First Child ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Over Time

Abstract This paper tests whether couples in which partners hold dissimilar gender role attitudes are less likely to have a first child together compared to couples in which both partners share similar attitudes. The study contributes to micro-level research on gender role attitudes and fertility, which has examined the content of one partner’s attitudes, but not the fit of both partners’ views. We analyse unique panel data from the German Family Panel (pairfam) collected between 2008 and 2017, which includes information on the attitudes of both partners in a couple. Results show that couples whose members have dissimilar gender role attitudes are substantially and significantly less likely to have a child together over time. This observation holds independently of both partners’ individual attitudes and holds against a number of robustness checks.

In and Out of Self-Employment, Are You Really an Entrepreneur: The Rise of a New Division?

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiba Maher Hussein ◽  
Moustafa Salman Haj Youssef
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Power ◽  
The Self ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This paper examines self-employed individuals in the UK Labour market. We use an amalgamated dataset, the British Household Panel Survey, from the years 1991 to 2008, and its successor the United Kingdom Longitudinal Study, from years 2010 to 2014, following 11,657 respondents in the UK for 23 years. We explore the characteristics of different self-employed groups and create a new division that differentiates those who sustain in self-employment from those who move between self-employment and employee jobs. The sample size consists of 1146 sustained self-employed, 1149 dabbled self-employed and 9362 paid workers. We found that dabblers exhibit unique set of attributes that place them in a distinct position compared to sustained self-employed and/or employees. Dabblers seem to be ‘pulled’ rather than ‘pushed’ into self-employment, reflecting a labour market ‘power’ instead of deficiency. Thus, bringing key insight into a group who have not been separately identified in the labour market to date, the self-employed dabblers.

The Asymmetric Effects of Regional House Prices in the UK: New Evidence from Panel Quantile Regression Framework

2021 ◽  
pp. 232102222098054
Author(s):  
Panayiotis Tzeremes
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Quantile Regression ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Ripple Effect ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Housing Starts ◽  
Panel Quantile Regression ◽  
Linear Behaviour ◽  
Significant Performance ◽  
The Uk

This study unfurls the non-linear behaviour of regional house prices in the United Kingdom by employing quarterly observations spanning the period 1992Q1–2017Q4. Our enquiry aims at examining UK house prices within a multivariable framework and, more specifically, by employing panel quantile regression with fixed effect. In brief, the empirical findings obtained from these methodologies indicate that the UK house prices are influenced at lower and upper quantiles, and that precisely they are influenced by variables such as income, private sector housing starts and employment. We highly support that there is a strong heterogeneity among UK regions and that asymmetry may be one of the keys of the ripple effect. Particularly, the income shows a positively significant performance at lower and higher regional house prices. Moreover, the variables private sector housing starts and employment rate are statistically significant for house prices. Leveraging for first-time panel quantile regression for the case of regional house prices in the UK, policymakers will have a profound understanding of regional house prices. JEL Classifications: C22, R21, R31

Adjustment of Early Parenthood

1982 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
JULIE A. KACH ◽  
PAUL E. McGHEE
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Parenthood ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Early Parenthood ◽  
First Child ◽  
The Relationship

This study was designed to determine the relationship between the accuracy of preparenthood expectations about parenthood and the incidence of problems associated with the transition to parenthood. Parents who were expecting their first child in about six weeks completed a prebirth questionnaire pertaining to expectations about various dimensions of parenthood following the birth of their baby. The same questionnaire was administered two months after the birth of the baby, along with questions concerning the kinds of problems the parents had encountered. Two comparison control groups were also tested. Parents' preparenthood expectations did not differ significantly from their subsequent perceptions of parenthood. However, mothers with less accurate expectations about parenthood were most likely to have problems adjusting to parenthood. No comparable relationship was obtained for fathers. Less accurate expectations about parenthood among mothers were also associated with lower levels of preparation for parenting, higher age levels, and a greater number of years of prior marriage. Information is presented regarding the specific aspects of parenthood that mothers and fathers were least prepared for and that posed the greatest problems.

scholarly journals The Consequences of Divorce and Splitting up for Spatial Mobility in the UK

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peteke Feijten ◽  
Maarten Van Ham
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Disruptive Effect ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Union Dissolution ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
Housing Situation ◽  
Spatial Mobility ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
The Uk

Union dissolution is well known to have a disruptive effect on the housing situation of those involved, and often leads to downward moves on the “housing ladder”. Much less is known about the geographies of residential mobility after union dissolution. There are, however, reasons to expect that those who experienced a union dissolution have a different likelihood of moving over longer distances than those who stay in a union, because of different moving motives. This study contributes to the existing literature by investigating the occurrences of moves, distances moved and the destinations of moves after union dissolution. The paper also contributes to the literature by investigating the effect on mobility not only of divorce, but also of splitting up and repartnering. Using longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), and logistic regression models, we found that union dissolution has a significant effect on the occurrence of moves and on moving distances.

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