The Home Front: Rent Control and the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership
The U.S. home ownership rate rose by 10 percentage points between 1940 and 1945, despite severe restrictions on construction during World War II. I investigate whether wartime rent control played a role in this shift. The empirical test exploits variation in rent reductions across cities that had si...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of economic history 2016-12, Vol.76 (4), p.1001-1043 |
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