Inherited and Spatial Disadvantages: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adult Neighborhood Careers of Siblings

Manley, David; Ham, Maarten van; Hedman, Lina

doi:10.1080/24694452.2020.1747970

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“…Hence, the choice (or lack thereof) of neighbourhood in adulthood is affected by both childhood neighbourhood experiences and the childhood family context. This conclusion was confirmed by Manley and colleagues [30] who compare residential neighbourhood careers of siblings to unrelated individuals originating from the same neighbourhoods. In accordance with previous literature, they find that neighbourhood status is reproduced over time, but add that siblings live more similar lives (in terms of neighbourhood environment) than unrelated individuals.…”

Section: Neighbourhood and Family Effectssupporting

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Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work

2019

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Previous research has reported evidence of intergenerational transmissions of neighbourhood status and social and economic outcomes later in life. Research also shows neighbourhood effects on adult incomes of both childhood and adult neighbourhood experiences. However, these estimates of neighbourhood effects may be biased because confounding factors originating from the childhood family context. It is likely that part of the neighbourhood effects observed for adults, are actually lingering effects of the family in which someone grew up. This study uses a sibling design to disentangle family and neighbourhood effects on income, with contextual sibling pairs used as a control group. The sibling design helps us to separate the effects of childhood family and neighbourhood context from adult neighbourhood experiences. Using data from Swedish population registers, including the full Swedish population, we show that the neighbourhood effect on income from both childhood and adult neighbourhood experiences, is biased upwards by the influence of the childhood family context. Ultimately, we conclude that there is a neighbourhood effect on income from adult neighbourhood experiences, but that the childhood neighbourhood effect is actually a childhood family context effect. We find that there is a long lasting effect of the family context on income later in life, and that this effect is strong regardless the individual neighbourhood pathway later in life.

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Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work

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“…More than 70% of the African-American children who grow up in the most deprived areas live in similar types of neighbourhoods also as adults (Sharkey, 2008(Sharkey, , 2013. As mentioned in the introduction, the inheritance of living in poverty neighbourhoods is not restricted to the US but is also prevalent in countries with a very different welfare state arrangement, such as Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands (de Vuijst et al, 2017;Gustafson et al, 2017;Manley et al, 2020;Nordvik & Hedman, 2019;van Ham et al, 2014).…”

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“…In two separate studies, both using data from Sweden, Gustafson, Katz, and Österberg (2017) and van Ham, Hedman, Manley, Coulter, and Östh (2014) find that the neighbourhood status of children is correlated to that of parents and that immigrants are more likely than natives to remain in disadvantaged areas over two generations. Manley, van Ham, and Hedman (2020) add a family dimension to the analysis: children from the same family live more similar lives than unrelated individuals but the neighbourhood of origin has an independent effect on future residential careers. Using data from the Netherlands, de Vuijst, van Ham, and Kleinhans (2017) add that higher education can reduce intergenerational transmission but that this is less prevalent among the immigrant population.…”

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Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context

Hedman

Ham

2021

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The literature on intergenerational contextual mobility has shown that neighbourhood status is partly ‘inherited’ from parents by children. Children who spend their childhood in deprived neighbourhoods are more likely to live in such neighbourhoods as adults. It has been suggested that such transmission of neighbourhood status is also relevant from a multiple generation perspective. To our knowledge, however, this has only been confirmed by simulations and not by empirical research. This study uses actual empirical data covering the entire Swedish population over a 25-year period, to investigate intergenerational similarities in neighbourhood status for three generations of Swedish women. The findings suggest that the neighbourhood environments of Swedish women are correlated with the neighbourhood statuses of their mothers and, to some extent, grandmothers. These results are robust over two different analytical strategies—comparing the neighbourhood status of the three generations at roughly similar ages and at the same point in time—and two different spatial scales. We argue that the finding of such effects in (relatively egalitarian) Sweden implies that similar, and possibly stronger, patterns are likely to exist in other countries as well.

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“…In this paper, we do not provide a complete overview of literature on neighbourhood attainment, and it should be noted that this literature extends beyond the works cited above. Many of these studies focus on the situation in the United States (see e.g., Huang, South, & Spring, 2017; Leibbrand, Gabriel, Hess, & Crowder, 2020; Pais, 2017; South, Huang, Spring, & Crowder, 2016), but there is also an emerging body of European literature (Hermansen, Hundebo, & Birkelund, 2020; Manley, van Ham, & Hedman, 2020; McAvay, 2018).…”

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Neighbourhood context and young adult mobility: A life course approach

Andersson

Malmberg

Clark

2020

Population Space and Place

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This paper finds convincing evidence of upward progress out of poor Swedish neighbourhoods for individuals with a Swedish background, individuals with a European background, and those with a non‐European background. We use the 1986 cohort of the Swedish population and follow them from age 15 when they are living at home to age 30. We find that by age 30, they live in a neighbourhood that in terms of the poverty level is relatively distant from the initial neighbourhood where they grew up. Mobility into less poor neighbourhoods is clearly linked to higher income, but interestingly, initial context is even more important. Mobility to less poor neighbourhoods is found for those starting in high‐poverty neighbourhoods and vice versa for those starting in low‐poverty neighbourhoods. Moreover, large‐scale context and regional context strongly influence neighbourhood mobility along the poverty gradient. The analysis shows that a large proportion of individuals with a non‐European background improve their neighbourhood status from where they were living as teenagers, to where they live after leaving home. Individuals who stay in the poorest neighbourhoods come from less favourable backgrounds, from large‐scale poverty contexts, have low school grades, tend to have children early, and have low incomes and lower educational attainment. Individuals with a non‐European background are overrepresented in this group. Thus, despite the overall gains in neighbourhood quality, the process of spatial sorting still contributes to an increased spatial concentration of vulnerable populations.

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Inherited and Spatial Disadvantages: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adult Neighborhood Careers of Siblings

Cited by 20 publications

References 47 publications

Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work

Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work

Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context

Neighbourhood context and young adult mobility: A life course approach

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