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Title: Private Transfers, Borrowing Constraints and the Timing of Homeownership

Author(s): Luigi Guiso and Tullio Jappelli

Publication Date: December 1998

Keyword(s): Borrowing Constraints, homeownership and Intergenerational Transfers

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: The 1991 Italian Survey of Household Income and Wealth contains detailed information on how respondents acquired their main residence and any other real estate. This information is used to estimate the impact of inter vivos transfers on the saving period required to purchase a house and on the value of the house purchased when households have limited access to mortgage markets. It is found that transfers shorten the saving time by about two years and allow households to purchase considerably larger homes. The results have implications for the debate about the source of the relation between aggregate saving and growth.

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Guiso, L and Jappelli, T. 1998. 'Private Transfers, Borrowing Constraints and the Timing of Homeownership'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2050