Academic Tenure and Housing Choice

dc.contributor.authorSeagraves, Cayman
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-18T12:16:09Z
dc.date.available2018-05-18T12:16:09Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.description.abstractThis study tests a model of housing choice to cross-sectional data from the faculty at Middle Tennessee State University. The faculty participants include tenured, tenure-track, and non-tenured professors. The study employs econometric regression, which conditions household decisions based on a variety of factors. The variable of interest in this study is academic tenure. Like past studies, my results indicate that demographic and economic differences largely explain the housing tenures choices that individuals and families make. The results show that being single or Latino decreases the chance of homeownership, and these results conform with past research. Moreover, the regression shows that faculty who have achieved academic tenure are significantly more likely to own a home than those who have not achieved academic tenure. With the results, there is enough evidence to reject the null hypothesis and accept the alternative hypothesis that academic tenure does quantitatively influences housing choice.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/xmlui/handle/mtsu/5626
dc.publisherUniversity Honors College, Middle Tennessee State Universityen_US
dc.subjectacademic tenureen_US
dc.subjecthousing choiceen_US
dc.subjectreal estateen_US
dc.subjectfinanceen_US
dc.subjectjob securityen_US
dc.titleAcademic Tenure and Housing Choiceen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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