Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Natural experiment

What does a label do to a neighbourhood?

Paper: What is in a label? On neighborhood labeling, stigma and housing prices
Andersson et al. · Regional Science and Urban Economics 2026 · doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2026.104191

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What does a label do to a neighbourhood? In 2015, Swedish police began listing some areas as “vulnerable”. The study estimates the listing lowered housing prices there by an average of 3.6% within a year, and 6.5% within six years.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: housing prices, place-based policy, vulnerable neighborhoods, stigma, minority residents, foreign-born population.