Carmen Villa
I am an Assistant Professor at @econ.uzh.ch and @jacobscenteruzh.bsky.social. I am also a Research Affiliate at
@theifs.bsky.social.
- 🚨📰New WP 🚨📰 How does social housing design affect neighborhoods decades later? We study London gangs to show that postwar urban planning—specifically high-rise public housing construction—had lasting effects on gang formation @cep-lse.bsky.social
- We combine novel spatial data on 440 gang territories with detailed council housing records and building attributes. Compared to areas with no council housing, high-rise post-war council housing areas are 3.3x more likely to host gangs.
- Is this relationship causal? We use the 1940-41 Blitz as a shock to urban redevelopment. Since height regulations were relaxed in bombed areas, and bombing was random at small scales, this gives us plausibly exogenous variation in where postwar high-rises were built.
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