DECIPHE starts on June 2024 and is led by Philipp Lersch, Selcuk Beduk, Márton Medgyesi, Sergi Vidal & Sabine Zinn

DECIPHE deploys a comparative research design to address how the chances of being in homeownership if parents were homeowners is affected by demographic change, also in interplay with other contextual factors, such as housing market dynamics The key research objectives are:

(1)    To assemble an open-access database of relevant macro-level variables at the country-, region-, and birth cohort-level focusing on demographic conditions (2)    To collect new data on the intergenerational persistence of homeownership in Germany, Hungary, Spain, and the UK.

(3)    To estimate the intergenerational persistence in homeownership across European countries, regions, and birth cohorts. (4)    To discover drivers of the variation in the intergenerational persistence across countries, regions, and birth cohorts with a focus on demographic conditions.