Parcel-Level Housing Wealth Effects of Rent Control in St. Paul

This replication package supports a study on the redistribution of housing wealth following the 2021 passage of rent control in St. Paul, Minnesota. The analysis uses parcel-level data to quantify changes in property values and wealth effects for renters, landlords, and homeowners.

Use Cases

• Analyze parcel-level property value changes before and after the 2021 rent control policy enactment.
• Model the heterogeneous wealth effects on different renter income groups as described in the associated paper.
• Investigate the distribution of wealth losses between small and large landlord categories using the underlying data.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication accepted in the Journal of Urban Economics.
• The study provides the first evidence on wealth effects from a wave of new rent control laws.
• Analysis is grounded in a specific policy event (2021 rent control passage in St. Paul, Minnesota).

Limitations

• The specific data structure, column names, and row counts are not provided in the input.
• The dataset's completeness and geographic scope beyond St. Paul are unknown.
• As a replication package, the data may be tailored for the specific analysis and lack broader documentation.

Provenance

Source

Author: Ahern, Kenneth; Organization: ICPSR Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Replication package for an academic paper, likely containing processed analysis data.

Time Range

Centered around the 2021 passage of rent control in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Freshness

The package was last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.