The Impact of Neighborhood Homeownership Rates: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature

By Donald R. Haurin, R. Dietz, B. A. Weinberg. Journal of Housing Research, 2002

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Interest in measuring the impact of neighborhood homeownership rates on the residents of a neighborhood and on surrounding neighborhoods is increasing. This topic is part of the growing literature in the social sciences that discusses the theory and measurement of how neighborhoods affect individuals. In this review, we report on the conceptual categorization of the types of neighborhood effects, we review the social science literature that presents theories of how neighborhoods affect the residents or surrounding areas, and we review the empirical literature that measures the size of neighborhood effects. Throughout, we highlight the impact that differences in neighborhood homeownership rates may have on the economic and social outcomes of the residents. We find numerous theories that, when applied to neighborhood homeownership rates, have rich sets of testable predictions. In contrast, we find few empirical studies of the impact of neighborhood homeownership rates. We conclude that little is known about the impact of cross-sectional or intertemporal variations in neighborhood ownership rates and a substantial amount of additional research is needed. We show that understanding the way in which neighborhood homeownership rates impact behaviors is very important to measuring the impact of public policy. Also, knowing whether neighborhood homeownership effects have a nonlinear impact is important when deciding whether public policy should encourage clusters of homeowners.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Sociology and Political Science

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Neighbourhood Social Mix as a Goal of Housing Policy: A Theoretical Analysis (2007, background): “(2001) , Haurin et al. (2002) , Sampson et al.”
Travel Mode Choice of the Elderly: Effects of Personal, Household, Neighborhood, and Trip Characteristics (2004, background): “However, the effect of aggregate behavior, or lifestyle of a group of individuals or households within the same neighborhood or adjacent neighborhoods, on the behavior or lifestyle of an individual or household, the so-called neighborhood effect, has been widely studied in the social science literat”
What Mix Matters? Exploring the Relationships between Individuals' Incomes and Different Measures of their Neighbourhood Context (2007, background): “…comprehensive reviews of the potential theoretical links between neighbourhood processes and individual outcomes (in particular, see Atkinson et al., 2001; Duncan et al., 1997; Ellen & Turner, 2003; Friedrichs, 1998; Gephart, 1997; Haurin et al., 2002; Jencks & Mayer, 1990; Sampson et al., 2002).”
The Influence of Neighborhood Poverty During Childhood on Fertility, Education, and Earnings Outcomes (2007, methodology): “In addition, a few studies have attempted to model explicitly the selection process into owner and rental tenures (Green & White, 1997; Haurin et al., 2002a, 2002b).”
Low-income Homeownership: American Dream or Delusion? (2006, background): “Presumably, property values will then rise and abandonment and other forms of blight will decrease (Haurin et al., 2003).”
Should Policy Makers Strive for Neighborhood Social Mix? An Analysis of the Western European Evidence Base (2007, background): “…that could produce neighborhood effects are well known, and include socialization, peer effects, role models, competition and relative deprivation (Atkinson et al., 2001; Duncan et al., 1997; Friedrichs, 1998; Gephart, 1997; Haurin et al., 2002; Jencks & Mayer, 1990; Sampson et al., 2002).”
Neighbourhood effects on social opportunities: the European and American research and policy context (2003, unknown): “The seminal analysis here is by Manski (1993, 1995), and the rapidly evolving literature during the subsequent decade has been summarised by Haurin et al. (2002).”
What are the social benefits of homeownership? Experimental evidence for low-income households (2010, unknown): “See Haurin et al. (2003), Coulson et al. (2003a, 2003b), and Ioannides (2002), among others.”