Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Kohl, Sebastian - 2021
>g), taxation policies, or “great levelers,” like catastrophes. This paper argues that housing policy, in particular rent control …, is a neglected explanatory factor in understanding overall inequality. We hypothesize that rent control could decrease … tenants. Using original long-run data for up to 16 countries (1900-2016), we show that rent controls lowered wealth …