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Misalignment of Housing Growth and Population Trends: Cohort Size and Lagging Measurements Through Recession and Recovery

Dowell Myers, Hyojung Lee, JungHo Park
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences January 2025, 11 (1) 86-109; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2025.11.1.05
Dowell Myers
aProfessor of policy, planning, and demography in the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, United States
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Hyojung Lee
bAssistant professor in the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
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JungHo Park
cAssistant professor, Department of Housing & Interior Design (BK21 Four AgeTech-Service Convergence), Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea
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    • DEEP BUT LAGGED CONNECTIONS OF HOUSING AND POPULATION
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