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Vinicius de Souza Maia

Doctoral student

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The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Poverty in Adult’s SES Attainment. How Important Is the Neighborhood? (Sweden, 1947-2015)

Author

  • Gabriel Brea-Martinez
  • Finn Hedefalk
  • Vinicius de Souza Maia

Summary, in English

This article studies the consequences of adult income resulting from exposure to poverty at the neighbourhood and family levels for children aged 1-17 in Southern Sweden from 1947 to 1967. We used geocoded information at the address level to identify k-neighbourhoods of various sizes and applied both relative and absolute poverty measurements, all yielding similar results. Moreover, our longitudinal data allowed for consecutive observations of individuals during childhood, enabling the capture of cumulative aspects of poverty exposure. Among our main findings, we identified that poverty in neighbourhoods had an independent association, even after accounting for familial poverty experience. This association appeared to be more substantial for men at younger ages, especially from 1 to 6, where ever living in a considered poor neighbourhood had a clear negative impact on adult income. However, for women, the general increase in university education attainment seemed to have neutralised any neighbourhood effect. The role played by neighbourhood poverty remained constant over time and across cohorts, even though our observational period coincided with the first expansion of the Swedish welfare estate.

Department/s

  • Department of Economic History
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2023-08-30

Language

English

Pages

1-50

Publication/Series

Lund Papers in Economic Demography

Volume

2023:2

Document type

Working paper

Publisher

Centre for Economic Demography

Topic

  • Economic History

Keywords

  • Childhood poverty
  • Social Mobility
  • Neighbourhood
  • Sweden
  • Long-term
  • longitudinal

Status

Published

Project

  • The long reach of the neighborhood: Health, education and earnings in Landskrona, Sweden, 1904-2015