Place-Based Policies in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Opportunities for Preexisting Residents and Neighbourhood Revitalisation?

Anna Piil Damm (), Ahmad Hassani () and Jonas Søndergaard Sørensen ()
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Anna Piil Damm: Aarhus University
Ahmad Hassani: Aarhus University
Jonas Søndergaard Sørensen: Aarhus University

No 17843, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper asks whether Denmark’s large-scale intervention in disadvantaged public-housing neighbourhoods on the “Ghetto List” in 2010 altered the trajectories of the neighbourhoods and improved economic outcomes of pre-existing residents through infrastructural improvements and social programmes. We leverage a novel geo-referenced data set linked with administrative registers and defines similar, yet untargeted neighbourhoods and their pre-existing residents as the control group. Our difference-in-difference estimates show that the programme reduced crime, both through a short-run compositional change, and through an 9.5% reduction in the likelihood of a criminal conviction among pre-existing residents, driven by those with a history of criminal activity.

Keywords: local community development; economic deprivation; human resources; residential segregation; migration; public policy analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J6 O15 R23 R28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04
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