Even though place-based policies involve large transfers toward low-income neighborhoods, they may also produce territorial stigmatization by spotlighting the targeted areas. This paper appeals to the quasi-experimental discontinuity in a French reform that redrew the zoning map of subsidized...

In this paper, we provide evidence that compensatory education policies that target schools in socially deprived areas are likely to create a negative signal resulting in a sorting effect. We investigate this effect by analyzing the French "Réseaux ambition réussite" (RAR) program, which...

[spa] Este artículo pretende examinar al grupo poblacional de aquellas personas que salen del sistema educativo francés sin haber obtenido un título y, más concretamente, describir su trayectoria escolar y su inserción en el mercado de trabajo a partir de los resultados de la encuesta...