Spatio-temporal Evolution and Influential Factors of Housing Class of Chinese Urban Households
Housing is an important part of family assets and an important factor that represents the differentiation of social groups.Based on the data of the China Family Panel Studies from 2010 to 2018,this study reveals the spatio-temporal evolution of the housing class of Chinese urban households,and explores the influencing factors of the housing class using the panel multiple Logit regression.The analysis shows that:1)The housing class of Chinese urban households presented an"olive-shaped"structure generally,urban households which have one house accounts for the main part,urban households which have no house,two or more houses accounts for a relatively small part.The proportion of urban households which have two or more houses shows an obvious growing trend.2)In terms of geography,urban households which have no house or one house show no obvious spatial agglomeration.Urban households which have two or more houses shows a polarized spatial distribution pattern,and over time it has shifted from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region to the Yangtze River Basin.3)In the theory of family life cycle,family size,family annual income,marriage and age have positive impacts on housing class upward-transition.And by adding institutional variables and market variables into the interaction model,both the power extension theory and the market transformation theory are verified.In addition,the average price of provincial commercial housing is also an important factor affecting the housing class.
urban householdshousing classfamily sizeannual incomefamily life cyclepanel regression