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Housing expenditure burden and household managerial behavior: Comparison of homeowners and renters
Abstract
In the United States, the housing affordability issue has become the major policy focus and prime motivator of the nation's housing programs. However, little research over the potential consequences of unaffordable housing expenditure on the household has been conducted. The present study aimed to fill this gap and to further enrich the research base of housing and consumer behavior. Specifically the purpose of this study was to develop a structural model of housing expenditure burden that identifies the characteristics of households suffering from unaffordable, burdensome housing expenditures and their managerial strategies. The data used in this study were drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), the 1988 cross-year file. The total sample was divided into the two subsamples of homeowners and renters for the purpose of comparison. Descriptive statistics were used to describe the characteristics of the samples. The structural equation modeling technique, LISREL 8, was employed in order to estimate a structural model of housing expenditure burden and household managerial behavior. The proposed model was supported with an acceptable fit with the data. With regard to the effects of housing expenditure burden on household managerial behaviors, homeowners and renters were different. For the homeowner subsample, housing expenditure burden had a positive effect on residential mobility and nonsignificant effect on hours worked by the head of household. For the renter subsample, it had a negative effect on hours worked by the head of household and nonsignificant effect on residential mobility.
Subject Area
Families & family life|Personal relationships|Sociology|Home economics|Urban planning|Area planning & development
Recommended Citation
Park, Sooyoun Kim, "Housing expenditure burden and household managerial behavior: Comparison of homeowners and renters" (1994). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI9510975.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9510975