TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Damm, Anna Piil
AU  - Hassani, Ahmad
AU  - Sørensen, Jonas Søndergaard
        TI  - Place-Based Policies in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Opportunities for Preexisting Residents and Neighbourhood Revitalisation?
        PY  - 2025/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17843
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp17843
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - local community development
KW  - economic deprivation
KW  - human resources
KW  - residential segregation
KW  - migration
KW  - public policy analysis
        ER  -