The temporal stability of children's neighborhood experiences: A follow-up from birth to age 15

Kleinepier, Tom; Ham, Maarten van

doi:10.4054/demres.2017.36.59

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“…The characteristics used to define anchors' neighbourhood experiences before leaving the parental home are thus based on one year of observations, namely 1999. While this may produce bias in representing the entire childhood neighbourhood experience, previous research has shown that neighbourhood characteristics are highly correlated throughout childhood (Kleinepier and van Ham, 2017;Kunz et al, 2003;Manley et al, 2013;Vartanian et al, 2007). For this reason, using a singular year of parental neighbourhood characteristics is unlikely to offset the validity of our results.…”

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The moderating effect of higher education on the intergenerational transmission of residing in poverty neighbourhoods

2017

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It is well-known that socioeconomic outcomes and (dis)advantage over the life course can be transmitted from parent to child. It is increasingly suggested that these intergenerational effects also have a spatial dimension, although empirical research into this topic remains scarce. Previous research from Sweden and the United States shows that children who grow up in disadvantaged neighbourhoods experience long-term exposure to such neighbourhoods in their adult lives. This study contributes to the literature by examining to what extent educational attainment can break the link between parental neighbourhood disadvantage and the neighbourhood experiences of children as adults up to 12 years after leaving the parental home. We use longitudinal register data from the Netherlands to study a complete cohort of parental home leavers, covering 119,167 individuals who were followed from 1999 to 2012. Using sequence analyses as a visualisation method, and multilevel logit models, we demonstrate that children who lived in deprived neighbourhoods with their parents are more likely to live in similar neighbourhoods later in life than children who grew up in more affluent neighbourhoods. We find that intergenerational neighbourhood patterns of disadvantage can be discontinued when individuals attain higher education over time. Discontinuation is however less prevalent among individuals from ethnic minority groups.

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The moderating effect of higher education on the intergenerational transmission of residing in poverty neighbourhoods

2017

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“…Previous research has added a spatial dimension to the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage, where the well-being and development of children are influenced by where the family lives, highlighting the role of geography. Research has shown a path dependence between childhood neighborhoods and neighborhood experiences later in life (Kleinepier and van Ham 2017;Kleinepier, van Ham, and Nieuwenhuis 2018). These intergenerational transmissions of neighborhood are important in understanding the reproduction and spatial concertation of (dis)advantage.…”

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

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2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Understanding how inequalities are transmitted through generations and restrict upward spatial mobility has long been a concern of geographic research. Previous research has identified that the neighborhood in which someone grows up is highly predictive of the type of neighborhood he or she will live in as an independent adult. What remains largely unknown is the relative contribution of geography compared to the contribution of the family context in forming these individual life outcomes. The aim of this article is to better understand the role of the spatial-temporal contexts of individuals in shaping later life outcomes, by distinguishing between inherited disadvantage (socioeconomic position) and spatial disadvantage (the environmental context in which children grow up). We use a sibling design to analyze the neighborhood careers of adults after they have left the parental home, separating out the roles of the family from that of the neighborhood in determining residential careers. We employ rich Swedish Register data to construct a quasi-experimental family design to analyze residential outcomes for sibling pairs and contrast real siblings against a control group of "contextual siblings." We find that real siblings live more similar lives in terms of neighborhood experiences during their independent residential careers than contextual sibling pairs but that this difference decreases over time. The results show the importance of geography, revealing long-lasting stickiness of spatial-temporal contexts of childhood.

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“…This is a critical limitation given that exposure to neighbourhood deprivation can change throughout the life course, either through residential mobility leading to the experience of multiple neighbourhoods, or the neighbourhood around the individual changing. Recent work has highlighted this problem by demonstrating that cross sectional neighbourhood factors paint an overly simplistic and unrealistic picture of longer term neighbourhood exposure [ 15 ].…”

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Context or composition: How does neighbourhood deprivation impact upon adolescent smoking behaviour?

2018

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Neighbourhood effects studies have demonstrated an association between area deprivation and smoking behaviour whereby people living in deprived neighbourhoods are more likely to smoke than those in non-deprived neighbourhoods. This evidence though is based largely upon data that ignores long term exposures to neighbourhood contexts and is confounded by neighbourhood selection bias. In this study, we investigate the temporal ordering of exposure to neighbourhood deprivation throughout childhood and whether associations between neighbourhood deprivation and cigarette smoking are due to compositional or contextual neighbourhood effects. Data come from a UK cohort study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). We use longitudinal measures of neighbourhood deprivation and self-reported smoking behaviour for 2744 children to examine the influence of neighbourhood deprivation on smoking status and smoking heaviness at age 17. Our results demonstrate that children who are born into and grow up in deprived neighbourhoods are up to twice as likely to be smokers at age 17 than those in non-deprived neighbourhoods. These associations are largely due to family socioeconomic position and the intergenerational transmission of smoking behaviour from parents to children; compositional rather than direct contextual ‘neighbourhood effects’. Our findings highlight the importance of considering longitudinal exposure to neighbourhood deprivation over cross sectional exposure. In conclusion, we find that it is the family rather than the neighbourhood into which a child is born that determines their smoking behaviour.

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The temporal stability of children's neighborhood experiences: A follow-up from birth to age 15

Cited by 14 publications

References 20 publications

The moderating effect of higher education on the intergenerational transmission of residing in poverty neighbourhoods

The moderating effect of higher education on the intergenerational transmission of residing in poverty neighbourhoods

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

Context or composition: How does neighbourhood deprivation impact upon adolescent smoking behaviour?

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