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Three Generations of Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Context
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Abstract 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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Sweden; intergenerational mobility; neighborhood; residential environment; deprivation; segregation; socioeconomic position; inequality
Classification
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Free Keywords
intergenerational transmission; low-income neighbours; register data
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 129-141
Journal
Social Inclusion, 9 (2021) 2
Issue topic
Vicious Circle of Segregation: Understanding the Connectedness of Spatial Inequality across Generations and Life Domains
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed