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Millennials’ Future Homeownership and the Role of Student Loan Debt
Author(s) -
Mountain Travis P.,
Cao Xiang,
Kim Namhoon,
Gutter Michael S.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
family and consumer sciences research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 1077-727X
DOI - 10.1111/fcsr.12374
Subject(s) - student loan , debt , timeline , loan , student debt , demographic economics , logistic regression , business , economics , finance , medicine , archaeology , history
The financial burden of student loans on individuals in the Millennial generation is a serious issue. We investigated the effect this financial burden has on not only current homeownership but also the expectations and timing for future homeownership. The data came from the 2016 UF/VT Millennial Housing and Student Debt Survey of 1,327 young adults aged 19 to 35. We used a logistic regression model to determine differences in current homeownership and a two‐stage Cragg model to examine the expectation and timing of future homeownership. We found that while student loans negatively affected Millennials’ current ownership rates, the Millennials still wanted to be homeowners. Moreover, the homeownership timeline for Millennials with student loan debt will be delayed by several years relative to their counterparts without student loan debt.