@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17843, author={Damm, Anna Piil and Hassani, Ahmad and Sørensen, Jonas Søndergaard}, title={Place-Based Policies in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Opportunities for Preexisting Residents and Neighbourhood Revitalisation?}, year={2025}, month={Apr}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={17843}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17843}, 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}, }