Plausibly Exogenous [1793] - Rent Control (12/30/2024)
LHS Variable
Tenants and landlords
RHS Variable
Rent control
Source of Exogenous Variation
Unexpected 1994 law change that suddenly rent-controlled a subset of San Francisco buildings and their tenants, based on the year each building was built
- Diamond, McQuade, and Qian (2019), “The effects of rent control expansion on tenants, landlords, and inequality: Evidence from San Francisco”