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IFS Working Paper W20/2
House Price Rises and Borrowing to Invest
Household borrowing and spending rise with house prices, particularly for leveraged households, but household spending is not consumption.
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It will take more than building homes to solve the housing crisis
If there’s one thing that everyone in politics seems to agree on, it’s that we need to solve the housing crisis. But there "really aren’t easy solutions here."
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House-buyer time machine
IFS researcher Jonathan Cribb worked alongside historian Claire Langhamer, personal finance expert Sharon Collard and the BBC to analyse the shift in wages, house prices and property ownership over time.
IFS Working Paper W19/18
Temptation and commitment: understanding the demand for illiquidity
The vast majority of household wealth in the U.S. is held in illiquid assets, primarily housing, making households vulnerable to unexpected income shocks. To rationalize this preference for illiquidity, we build a life-cycle model where households are tempted to consume their liquid wealth but can ...
IFS Working Paper W19/13
The impact of work on cognition and physical disability: Evidence from English women
Delaying retirement has significant positive effects on the average cognition and physical mobility of women in England, at least in the short run. Exploiting the increase in employment of 60-63 year old women resulting from the increase in the female State Pension Age, we show that working ...