About me

My name is Neda Delfani and since January 2011 I am employed as a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the University of Amsterdam. I study the role of housing, and in particular home ownership, as a source of income during old-age in different welfare regimes. My second question concerns the effect of the increasing presence of housing asset-based welfare on poverty and inequality. You find a description of my research project below.  Furthermore, as a member of the PhD researchers' association of the University of Amsterdam (UvAPro), I represent the faculty of social and behavioural sciences of the University of Amsterdam.

PhD project within programme of Institutions & Inequalities

The notion of an asset-based welfare state has become increasingly central to debates on restructuring of advanced welfare states, especially in the Anglo-Saxon welfare states. A mortgage concentrates housing costs at younger age, leaving home owning retirees (in case the mortgage is paid off) with hardly any costs for housing and therefore less need for a generous pension. At the same time, on the level of governments, policies promoting home ownership fiscally constrain the pursuit of a generous pension system. My PhD-project concerns an empirical test of the supposed existence of a longitudinal trade-off between housing policy, in particular aimed at home owership, and old-age pension provision. Using a time-series-cross-section model, I analyse how developments of both policy domains have evolved in an interdependent way, affecting the economic situation of the elderly by supplementing or even substituting institutional old-age provisions with housing wealth.

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