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Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty : an analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals

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07/2014
Author
Van Ham, M.
Hedman, L.
Manley, D.
Coulter, R.
Östh, J.
Keywords
Intergenerational transmission
Deprived neighbourhoods
Neighbourhood biography
Sequence analysis
Sweden
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
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The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing on the concept of neighbourhood biographies, this study contends that there are links between the places individuals live with their parents and their subsequent neighbourhood experiences as independent adults. Using individual-level register data tracking the whole Stockholm population from 1990 to 2008, and bespoke neighbourhoods, this study is the first to use sequencing techniques to construct individual neighbourhood histories. Through visualisation methods and ordered logit models, we demonstrate that the socioeconomic composition of the neighbourhood children lived in before they left the parental home is strongly related to the status of the neighbourhood they live in 5, 12 and 18 years later. Children living with their parents in high poverty concentration neighbourhoods are very likely to end up in similar neighbourhoods much later in life. The parental neighbourhood is also important in predicting the cumulative exposure to poverty concentration neighbourhoods over a long period of early adulthood. Ethnic minorities were found to have the longest cumulative exposure to poverty concentration neighbourhoods. These findings imply that for some groups, disadvantage is both inherited and highly persistent.
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Van Ham , M , Hedman , L , Manley , D , Coulter , R & Östh , J 2014 , ' Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty : an analysis of neighbourhood histories of individuals ' , Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers , vol. 39 , no. 3 , pp. 402-417 . https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12040
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12040
ISSN
0020-2754
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Journal article
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Copyright 2013, the Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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The research reported in this paper was made possible through the financial support of the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) at Uppsala University, Sweden and the financial support of the Marie Curie programme under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / Career Integration Grant n. PCIG10-GA-2011-303728 (CIG Grant NBHCHOICE, Neighbourhood choice, neighbourhood sorting, and neighbourhood effects).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6291

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