payments by owner-occupiers. We build a lifecycle model with uninsurable income risk and endogenous homeownership in order to …The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with …

This paper reports survey evidence on long-term care (LTC) risk misperceptions and demand for long-term care insurance … (LTCI) in Canada. LTC risk misperceptions is divided into three different risks: needing help for at least one activity of …. We then study how risk misperceptions correlate with individual characteristics, and evaluate how misperceptions affect …

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use … patterns. Our findings indicate that risk-loving and skilled people are more mobile over longer distances because they are more … distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals …

We formulate a general theory of preferences over outcome-time-probability triplets and decompose uncertainty into risk …

is often used as an argument for policies that foster homeownership. However, the causal link between homeownership and … wealth position of the household only through homeownership. For the sample of inheritors we find that the local average …

between the countries of the Euro area. We find a strong negative correlation between wealth inequality and homeownership … by homeownership status shows that the negative relationship is mostly driven by large between-group inequality across …-country inequality differences. We confirm the major role for homeownership rates in accounting for the wealth inequality differences …

A wide range of aggregate data is used to examine the spatial variation in homeownership rates among a cross-section of … spatial dependence in homeownership levels. In addition to familiar demographic and socioeconomic variables, the regional … disparities in homeownership rates between eastern and western Germany as well as between rural, urbanized and agglomerated …