1. Parents, local house prices and leaving home in Britain
Sait Bayrakdar and Rory Coulter, University of Cambridge
Leaving parental home is an important step of the transition to independent living for young adults
An important indicator of later life-outcomes (poverty risk, housing career)
A significant factor influencing other life-course decisions such as partnership and fertility
Important for family dynamics (Resources, privacy, relationships with children, behaviours of young people and their siblings)
International Research and Policy Symposium on Family Changes and
Housing Transitions in the Life Course, St Andrews, UK, May 2017

2. Background Early exits facilitated by range of factors:
Individual characteristics and socio-economic position (Berrington and Murphy, 1994; Iacovou, 2010; Stone et al 2011; 2014) , life events (Thomas and Mulder 2016, Stone et al, 2014)
Parental background on home-leaving (Blaauboer, 2010)
Favourable housing access and affordability, house prices (Ermisch, 1999)
Intergenerational effects (social disparities)
Local housing markets (spatial disparities)
Cross-national evidence people leave home more quickly where housing (especially in the rental sector) is affordable and accessible (Mandic, 2008)
Work by Ermisch (1999) & Ermisch and Di Salvo (1997) suggested higher regional house prices reduce exits, especially to partnership
But the evidence is from almost 20 years ago.
Recent changes to affect home leaving patterns of millennials
Changes to housing market
Global Financial Crisis
Changes to life course events
To what extent is this still/less/more strongly the case?

3. Research questions
How do parental background and local house prices influence the timing and household destinations of young adults’ transitions out of the parental home?
Focus:
Young people aged in parental home at t who completed an interview (cf. Ermisch, 1999)
Understanding Society Waves 1-5 ( )
Local Authority house prices from ONS House Price Index
N= (49.58% men, 50.42% women)
Mix-adjusted three monthly means in £2015

4. Data Four outcomes where young people go at t+1 from parental home
Independent variables:
Parental characteristics: education, income, tenure,
District characteristics: house price
Control for several individual, parental and district-level factors
Multilevel random intercepts probit models
Education
Partnership
Living alone
Sharing with others
Education
Partnership
Living alone
Sharing with others
Education
Partnership
Living alone
Sharing with others
Education
Partnership
Living alone
Sharing with others
We separate the destinations, as different predictors might be more important for different destiantions.
Control for: Individual characteristics: age, sex, having partner or child at parental home, health, unemployment, being in education, income
Parental characteristics: age, education, income, tenure, household size
District characteristics: house price, price change, density, unemployment
Attrition is an issue for Understanding Society
We look at the descriptives and we use heckman-selection models. Despite high attrition, we do not see a selection problem.

5. Key findings Any destination Partnership Other destination
Any destination
Partnership
Other destination
Lives with both biological parents
-0.171***
-0.034
-0.272***
Parental degree
0.144***
0.037
0.216**
Parental income
-0.007
-0.019
age # parental income
0.006***
0.004
0.006**
Parental tenure (ref ownership)
social rent
0.068
0.07
0.180*
private rent
0.117
0.085
0.232*
Ln district house price
-0.203*
-0.334*
-0.459***
Source: Understanding Society
Note; * p<0.05, ** p<0.01, *** p<0.001; controlled for age, sex, having partner or/and child at parental home, health, unemployment, being in education, income, household size, price change, density, unemployment

6. Predicted probability of leaving home to partnership
In these figures an advantaged parental background is defined as living with both biological parents, having at least one parent with a degree, parental homeownership and having a parental income of £4500/month. The disadvantaged profile is defined as not living with both biological parents, having no parent with a degree, parental social tenancy and having a parental income of £1750/month. The low cost district is defined to have a mean house price of £ (similar to 2015 prices in Bridgend, South Ayrshire or Wakefield), while the high cost district has a mean of £ (similar to 2015 prices in Barking and Dagenham, Edinburgh or Worthing).

7. Predicted probability of leaving home to live alone or with others

8. Discussion Parental factors are important:
With the exception of partnership destination
Living with both parents is associated with lower likelihood to leave
Parental income and education help individuals to leave early
Income effect is conditioned on age!
Parental home ownership decreases the likelihood of leaving only for other destinations.
Moderate house price effect:
Those living in high-cost districts are more likely to leave later.

9. Acknowledgements Thank you! sb2152@cam.ac.uk
This research is supported by an Economic and Social Research Council Future Research Leaders award [ES/L009498/1]. Financial support from the Isaac Newton Trust is also gratefully acknowledged.
The United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) is conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex. UKHLS data were accessed via the UK Data Service. Neither the original collectors of the data nor the UK Data Service bear any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented in this study.

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