000117235 001__ 117235 000117235 005__ 20240319080954.0 000117235 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.3390/su14052848 000117235 0248_ $$2sideral$$a128640 000117235 037__ $$aART-2022-128640 000117235 041__ $$aeng 000117235 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-2023-5726$$aGonzález-Val, R.$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000117235 245__ $$aHouse Prices and Marriage in Spain 000117235 260__ $$c2022 000117235 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000117235 5203_ $$aThe aim of this study is to examine the link between house prices and marriage in Spain. We consider data from 50 Spanish provinces (NUTS III regions) and from local civil registries in 282 cities with populations greater than 25, 000 inhabitants. The regional data cover the 1995–2018 period, whereas the local sample includes information from 2005 to 2018. The marriage rate is defined as the annual absolute number of marriages per thousand inhabitants in each region or city. We used data on Spain because the Spanish housing market experienced a strong rise in house prices until 2006, when the housing bubble ended and prices dramatically decreased. By using different econometric techniques (panel data models with fixed effects and dynamic panel data models), our results reveal that there is a significant negative relationship between house prices and the marriage rate at both the regional and local levels. Overall, this study highlights the important consequences of rising house prices on family formations. Therefore, public authorities should try to reduce fluctuations in house prices and to facilitate access to home ownership for young couples. © 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 000117235 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/ECO2017-82246-P$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-114354RA-I00$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/ADETRE Research Group 000117235 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 000117235 590__ $$a3.9$$b2022 000117235 592__ $$a0.664$$b2022 000117235 591__ $$aENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES$$b114 / 275 = 0.415$$c2022$$dQ2$$eT2 000117235 591__ $$aENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES$$b48 / 128 = 0.375$$c2022$$dQ2$$eT2 000117235 591__ $$aGREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY$$b34 / 46 = 0.739$$c2022$$dQ3$$eT3 000117235 591__ $$aGREEN & SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY$$b5 / 9 = 0.556$$c2022$$dQ3$$eT2 000117235 593__ $$aGeography, Planning and Development$$c2022$$dQ1 000117235 593__ $$aEnergy Engineering and Power Technology$$c2022$$dQ2 000117235 593__ $$aEnvironmental Science (miscellaneous)$$c2022$$dQ2 000117235 593__ $$aRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment$$c2022$$dQ2 000117235 593__ $$aHardware and Architecture$$c2022$$dQ2 000117235 593__ $$aManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law$$c2022$$dQ2 000117235 593__ $$aComputer Networks and Communications$$c2022$$dQ2 000117235 594__ $$a5.8$$b2022 000117235 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000117235 7102_ $$14000$$2415$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Análisis Económico$$cÁrea Fund. Análisis Económico 000117235 773__ $$g14, 5 (2022), 2848 [16 pp]$$pSustainability (Basel)$$tSustainability (Switzerland)$$x2071-1050 000117235 8564_ $$s982524$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/117235/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000117235 8564_ $$s2706863$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/117235/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000117235 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:117235$$particulos$$pdriver 000117235 951__ $$a2024-03-18-13:29:11 000117235 980__ $$aARTICLE