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Female-Headed Households and Achieving Home Ownership in Australia

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  • Valerie Kupke
  • Peter Rossini
  • Stanley McGreal
  • Sharon Yam

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This paper begins by identifying the growth in female-headed households in Australia. Despite this increase, it is argued that females still lag males in terms of home ownership rates (HORs) with women in Australia facing similar ownership challenges as those experienced in the UK and the USA. In seeking to establish any dynamic change, the study analyses female home ownership rates in Australia for two points in time, 1998 and 2008. Logit models are used to predict HORs. The results indicate that factors such as household type, income and source of income have an impact on rates of ownership. The paper concludes that female-headed households in Australia show an increasing propensity to purchase which match, or even exceed, those of male-headed households.

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  • Valerie Kupke & Peter Rossini & Stanley McGreal & Sharon Yam, 2014. "Female-Headed Households and Achieving Home Ownership in Australia," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(7), pages 871-892, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:29:y:2014:i:7:p:871-892
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.903902
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    1. Andrew Caplin & James H. Carr & Frederick Pollock & Zhong Yi Tong & Kheng Mei Tan & Trivikraman Thampy, 2007. "Shared‐equity mortgages, housing affordability, and homeownership," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 209-242, January.
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    1. Benyan Tan & Yingzhu Guo & Yan Wu, 2024. "The influence and mechanism of female-headed households on household debt risk: empirical evidence from China," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-15, December.

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