The Home Front: Rent Control and the Rapid Wartime Increase in Home Ownership
研究了二战期间美国租金管制对自有住房率上升的影响，发现租金管制解释了1940-1945年间自有住房率10个百分点增长中的很大一部分。
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 similar increases in rents prior to control. This variation does not appear to be correlated with underlying trends also driving home ownership. Greater initial rent reductions led to larger increases in home ownership; rent control can account for a significant share of the increase in home ownership over the early 1940s.