Housing price, elderly dependency and fertility behaviour

Habitat International

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 304-311

  Hui, Eddie C M ^a   Zheng, Xian ^b   Hu, Jiang ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Co integration; Elderly dependency; Fertility behaviour; Granger causality; Hong Kong; Housing price

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; HOUSING MARKET; POLICY ANALYSIS; POPULATION DECLINE; PRICE DYNAMICS;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84155167490     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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