Women's Economic Progress and the Demand for Housing

Theory, and Empirical Analyses Based on Danish Data

Bibliographic Data

ID10864868
AuthorsGustav Kristensen (Department of Economics, Odense University, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume34
Issue3
Pages403-418
Publication date1997-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/0042098976041
OpenAlexW2154780230
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

The focus of this paper is upon the effects of women's economic progress on housing demand. The theoretical segment of the paper hypothesises that women's empowerment brings about an increase in the demand for housing space in less affluent environments, while instead it has the opposite effect in more affluent settings. These hypotheses are tested and validated using Danish data. The complex demand function on which the empirical analyses are based is constructed using expansion methodology. The themes discussed in this paper have scope broader than demand analysis: they centre upon the dialectic of empowerment that translates into reality women's preferences while at the same time altering them

Danish · Dialectic · Economic growth · Economics · Empowerment · Function (biology · Public economics · Scope (computer science · Computer Science · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

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