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Does Downsizing of Housing Equity Alleviate Financial Distress in Old Age?

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Reasons for residential moves vary across the life-course. While deteriorating health and increasing needs for support by children have been suggested to be the main motivations for moves in later life, one as yet under-investigated reason might be the wish to reduce home equity, thus alleviating financial distress in old age.

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  1. Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, University of Groningen, Nettelbosje 2, 9747 AE, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Viola Angelini

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, Cannaregio, 873, 30121, Venice, Italy

    Agar Brugiavini

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche “Marco Fanno”, Università di Padova, Via del Santo 33, 35123, Padova, Italy

    Guglielmo Weber

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  1. for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Mannheim Research Institute, L 13,17, Mannheim, 68131, Germany

    Axel Börsch-Supan

  2. Economics of Aging (MEA), Mannheim Research Institute for the, L 13, 17, Mannheim, 68131, Germany

    Martina Brandt

  3. , Research Institute for Sociology, University of Cologne, Greinstr. 2, Cologne, 50939, Germany

    Karsten Hank

  4. (DIW Berlin), German Institute for Economic Research, Mohrenstr. 58, Berlin, 10117, Germany

    Mathis Schröder

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Angelini, V., Brugiavini, A., Weber, G. (2011). Does Downsizing of Housing Equity Alleviate Financial Distress in Old Age?. In: Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., Hank, K., Schröder, M. (eds) The Individual and the Welfare State. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17472-8_8

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