# DEMOGRAPHICS, HOUSING, AND WELFARE OF THE ELDERLY

> **NIH NIH R01** · NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH · 1992 · $90,000

## Abstract

The goal of the Project on Demographics, Housing, and the Welfare of the
Elderly is to determine the effects of a declining birth rate and aging
population on the housing market, and through the characteristics of this
market on the welfare of successive cohorts of elderly, via changing user
cost of housing, changing wealth generated by real capital gains, and
changing savings behavior in response to perceptions (and misperceptions)
of housing market prospects.  The specific aims of the project are to (1)
collect demographic and housing market data over a long time period, (2)
build a demographic model that can be used to drive a housing demand
model several generations into the future, (3) estimate a structural
model of housing demand and supply that takes demography into account,
(4) and use this model to analyze the welfare impacts on elderly cohorts.
The results should be useful in identifying future policy issues, such as
poverty rates among the elderly, and in analyzing the impacts of policies
affecting housing wealth and savings, such as changes in capital gain
taxes or in the tax treatment of savings.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 3122145
- **Project number:** 1R01AG010181-01
- **Recipient organization:** NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
- **SAM.gov UEI:** GT28BRBA2Q49
- **Principal Investigator:** DANIEL MCFADDEN
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 1992
- **Award amount:** $90,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 1992-08-10 → 1995-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3122145

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 3122145, DEMOGRAPHICS, HOUSING, AND WELFARE OF THE ELDERLY (1R01AG010181-01). Retrieved via MORVS 2026-10-25 from https://api.morvs.ai/grant/nih/3122145. Licensed CC0.

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