particular, we measure beliefs about and preferences for rent control - a policy that is widely regarded as harmful by experts … effects of rent control on rent prices and housing supply and with information about the consensus among economists against … rent control. We find that people update their beliefs and that this leads to lower demand for rent control. Left …

We provide experimental evidence for the existence of “rent stigma,” a preference for owning goods or real estate to … of law students who were asked how much they would pay to own rather than rent a laptop found similar results. However …, we found little or no evidence for our hypotheses that rent stigma would decline in conditions in which the advantages of …

We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent … control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents' agreement with rent control, while …