Koster, HansR.A. and van Ommeren, J. (2019). Place-based policies and the housing market Review of Economics and Statistics, 101(3):400--414.

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—We study the economic effects of place-based policies in the housing market, by investigating the effects of a place-based program on prices of surrounding owner-occupied properties. The program improved the quality of public housing in 83 impoverished neighborhoods through-out the Netherlands. We combine a first-difference approach with a fuzzy regression-discontinuity design to address the fundamental issue that these neighborhoods are endogenously treated. Improvements in public housing induced surrounding housing prices to increase by 3.5%. The program{\textquoteright}s external benefits are sizable and at least half of the value of investments in public housing.