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.