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作者

Can Cui;Youqin Huang;Fenglong Wang

来源

HOUSING STUDIES,Vol.35,Issue6

语言

英文

关键字

作者单位

The Centre for Modern Chinese City Studies & School of Urban and Regional Science & Future City Lab, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; ;Department of Geography and Planning, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA; ;The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies & Institute of Urban Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China

摘要

Housing affordability has become a critical challenge worldwide, consequently constraining young generation from entering the housing market. Despite growing attention to housing inequality in China, little research has been undertaken to reveal the extent to which a family of origin contributes to housing inequality among young adults. Family resources could support the young generation to achieve homeownership not only directly through intergenerational transfers of wealth, but also indirectly through intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic characteristics. Using the 2013 Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey, this study constructs a structural equation model to examine the direct and indirect influence of parents’ resources on the young generation’s housing outcomes. The results show that the direct influence of parents’ homeownership is prominent, whereas the impact of transmitted socioeconomic status is limited. Housing advantages of parents, derived from their superior institutional status during China’s housing reforms, are being transmitted to their offspring, particularly to sons.