Arbeitspapier

Housing and tax-deferred retirement accounts

Assets in tax-deferred retirement accounts (TDA) and housing are two major components of household portfolios. In this paper, we develop a life-cycle model to examine the interaction between households' use of TDA and their housing decisions. The model generates life-cycle patterns of home ownership and the composition of net worth that are broadly consistent with the data from the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that TDA promotes home ownership, as households take advantage of the preferential tax treatments for both TDA and home ownership. They substitute TDA assets for home equity by accumulating wealth in TDA and making smaller down payments (taking out bigger mortgages); consequently, they become homeowners earlier in their lives. On the other hand, housing-related policies, such as a minimum down payment requirement and mortgage interest deductibility, affect households' housing decisions more than their use of TDA.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2016-24

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Micro-Based Behavioral Economics: Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making‡
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies; includes inheritance and gift taxes
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Housing Demand
Thema
Economic models
Housing

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ho, Anson T. Y.
Zhou, Jie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2016

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2016-24
Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Ho, Anson T. Y.
  • Zhou, Jie
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2016

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