Neighbourhood Reputation and Youth Schooling Paths

We study a policy in which in 2015 the Swedish police suddenly published reports to identify vulnerable neighbourhood. The public release of the list has led to massive media coverage of the listed neighbourhoods, which typically portraits these neighbourhoods in a stigmatizing way. We explore how this change in degree of stigma attached to the neighbourhood affected the sorting of adolescent students about to apply for high school. We also provide evidence on the underlying mechanisms that may produce these effects.

Researchers

Magdalena Dominguez (project manager)
Hans Grönqvist
Torsten Santavirta