Hi Kushneel,

I appreciate your idea but it has raised a number of questions into my mind.

I think before studying influence of parents owning a house on children's well-being. We should first clarify the children's level e.g. age and their motivational level (for example in context of Maslows hierarchy). Do they really value ownership of a house by their parents? or they have some other life-aspirations. Furthermore, you can also add some other determinants of children's' well-being.

So, you can explore general determinants of children well-being and then specifically the impact of parents owing a house as a moderator.

I hope my input can be useful for your research.

Hi Kushneel,

The relationship that you want to analyse is interesting but also difficult to capture methodologically in terms of establishing a causal link. This is generally due to the fact that a lot of the determinants of homeownership may also influence a child's well being.

There a couple of papers tackling the issue through the use of different datasets, methods and also a variation of proxies for well being/happiness/life satisfaction:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1051137799902486

Article Does Home Ownership Affect Child Outcomes?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02673030120105857

Article Home Ownership and School Outcomes of Children: Evidence fro...

Best,

Rodica

Thank you Mubshra and Rodica for your thoughts and input into this.

Mubshra - I appreciate your pointer to Maslows hierarchy. I see your point to probably use moderation analysis. But I am still not sure, how theoretically we can argue that the act of parents owning home improves their childrens SUBJECTIVE well-being (life satisfaction, happiness).

Rodica - Thanks for directing me to those papers. I actually did have a look at those papers before and realise that they are all discussing on child objective outcomes and not really on SUBJECTIVE well-being (life satisfaction and happiness or sense of achievement).

Best,

Kushneel

I agree with Mubshra sattar's answer. To study the influence of parents owning a house on children's well-being. I think we need to control these factors like children's level e.g. age, education etc and also their motivational level.

Hi Hushnell.

It is true that the well-being of children should be examined interactively. The number of moderators of the relationship of having a home - well-being is virtually infinite. A good model of the relationship between selected variables is needed. Your own home is a way of life, not just prosperity.

Best regards

Hi Kushneel,

I suggest you to first make a model for the proposed relationships that you wish you study and then support them with theory and some existing research.

Good luck!

Thanks. Actually, the trouble is I cannot find any papers specific to the relationship I want to study. Hence, the trouble of really pinning down the theory and isolating the effect of homeownership.