Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/319112 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17843
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
local community development
economic deprivation
human resources
residential segregation
migration
public policy analysis
JEL: 
J6
J24
O15
R23
R28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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