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Home and Where the Heart Is: Marriage Timing and Joint Home Purchase
[Où se trouve le cœur, là est la maison: Calendrier du mariage et achat conjoint d’un logement]

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  • Jennifer A. Holland

    (University of Wisconsin–Madison)

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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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  • Jennifer A. Holland, 2012. "Home and Where the Heart Is: Marriage Timing and Joint Home Purchase [Où se trouve le cœur, là est la maison: Calendrier du mariage et achat conjoint d’un logement]," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 28(1), pages 65-89, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:28:y:2012:i:1:d:10.1007_s10680-011-9242-1
    DOI: 10.1007/s10680-011-9242-1
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