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A Comparison of Consumer Expenditures by Housing Tenure
Author(s) -
PAULIN GEOFFREY D.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1995.tb00044.x
Subject(s) - housing tenure , demographics , consumer expenditure survey , demographic economics , consumer expenditure , economics , public economics , business , labour economics , demography , sociology , aggregate expenditure
Although studies of housing tenure choice are numerous, none found discuss how tenure is related to consumer expenditures. Using data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey, this study investigates whether differences observed in selected expenditures across tenure are due to dissimilar demographics alone, or to underlying differences in consumers which are reflected in their choice of tenure. Expenditures by homeowners and renters are examined and compared.