Social Interactions and the Effectiveness of Urban Policies

Santiago Pinto ()

The Review of Regional Studies, 2016, vol. 46, issue 2, 117-126

Abstract: Why does the implementation of urban policies with similar characteristics achieve disparate results? Why do the same policies work in certain social and economic environments, but not in others? What are the reasons explaining the varied outcomes? This presentation claims that social interactions, including neighborhood and network effects, may play a key role at explaining the effectiveness of urban policies. It is argued that the availability of new and better information, such as recent data obtained from social experiments, might provide new insights on how non-market interactions may condition policy interventions in an urban setting.

Keywords: social interaction; urban; place-based; people-based; MTO (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: P46 R28 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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