units due to rent control in New York City. This methodology involves comparing the relative consumption of different … demographic groups within the rent controlled area with the relative levels of consumption in a free market area. Our best … estimate of the costs of rent control in New York due to the misallocation of rental apartments is 200 dollars per apartment …

We exploit quasi-experimental variation in assignment of rent control to study its impacts on tenants, landlords, and … the overall rental market. Leveraging new data tracking individuals' migration, we find rent control increased renters …' probabilities of staying at their addresses by nearly 20%. Landlords treated by rent control reduced rental housing supply by 15 …

this cliometrics is and how these two Nobel Prize winners furthered the discipline of economics …

known as Cliometrics, and a non-random survey of recent research emphasizing the emerging methodology of the New Economic …

queuing frictions in the market for public housing. Having access to rent-stabilized housing increases household welfare by up …

in house values. However, homeownership also provides a hedge against fluctuations in future rent payments. This paper … finds that, even though house price risk endogenously increases with rent risk, the latter empirically dominates for most … households so housing market risk actually increases homeownership rates and house prices. Further, the net effect of rent risk …

1995 elimination of stringent rent controls in Cambridge, Massachusetts that had previously muted landlords' investment … residential property and the prices and characteristics of all residential transactions between 1988 and 2005, we find that rent … decontrolled units. Elimination of rent control added about $1.8 billion to the value of Cambridge's housing stock between 1994 and …