Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context
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 transmis...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-42c39e2e952f4357894c0d4c4715bc742022-12-22T02:07:31ZengCogitatioSocial Inclusion2183-28032021-05-019212914110.17645/si.v9i2.37301980Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood ContextLina Hedman0Maarten van Ham1Centre for Research and Development, Uppsala University/Region Gävleborg, SwedenDepartment of Urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands / School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews, UKThe 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.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/3730intergenerational transmissionlow-income neighboursneighbourhoodregister datasweden |
| spellingShingle | Lina Hedman Maarten van Ham Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context Social Inclusion intergenerational transmission low-income neighbours neighbourhood register data sweden |
| title | Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context |
| title_full | Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context |
| title_fullStr | Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context |
| title_full_unstemmed | Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context |
| title_short | Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context |
| title_sort | three generations of intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood context |
| topic | intergenerational transmission low-income neighbours neighbourhood register data sweden |
| url | https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/3730 |
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