Where people live strongly shapes their economic lives: earnings, employment chances, housing, and health all differ sharply across neighbourhoods. How can policy reduce these gaps? On 18 September, the Erasmus School of Economics organises a Policy Afternoon on this question, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers.
Registration is free, including drinks and networking.
Lectures
The Policy Afternoon will start with three mini-lectures on neighbourhood inequalities, followed by a roundtable discussion, where academic experts, practitioners, and policy-makers will discuss which policy measures can address spatial disparities in economic opportunities. Participants will leave with an overview of the latest evidence on what works — and what doesn't — in tackling neighbourhood inequality.
Matthijs Korevaar (Erasmus School of Economics) will discuss how housing markets and housing policies — from investor bans to new construction — shape who lives where and the divides between neighbourhoods.
Sara Signorelli (Institut Polytechnique de Paris) will share insights from Denmark's 'Ghetto Plan', exploring what happens when disadvantaged neighbourhoods are officially labelled as problem areas.
Elisabeth Leduc (Erasmus School of Economics), will present research on the Rotterdam Act, a Dutch policy which restricted who could move into designated disadvantaged neighbourhoods.
Round table participants
- Pieter de Jonge – Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK)
- Ineke Mulder – Maaskoepel
- Nanne Boonstra – Rotterdam municipality
- Sara Signorelli – Institut Polytechnique de Paris
- Matthijs Korevaar – Erasmus School of Economics
- Elisabeth Leduc – Erasmus School of Economics
- Anne Gielen (Moderator) – Erasmus School of Economics
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About the Policy Afternoon
Erasmus School of Economics is organising a Policy Afternoon that brings together researchers and policymakers, to exchange insights on policies aimed at reducing place-based inequalities.
The discussion will focus on a central question: how can public policy effectively narrow the spatial gaps in economic opportunities?
Participants will discuss a range of policy approaches aimed at improving employment opportunities and mobility for residents of disadvantaged areas.
