Print Email Facebook Twitter The Moderating Effect of Higher Education on Intergenerational Spatial Inequality (discussion paper) Title The Moderating Effect of Higher Education on Intergenerational Spatial Inequality (discussion paper) Author De Vuijst, E. Van Ham, M. Kleinhans, R.J. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department OTB Date 2015-12-01 Abstract 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. Subject intergenerational inequalityneighbourhood effectsdeprived neighbourhoodsneighbourhood historieseducational attainmentlongitudinal datasequence analysisthe Netherlands To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0d090b61-f42f-4818-83f3-0c59a3c99e5f Publisher Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit/ Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Source IZA Discussion Paper 9557 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s) Files PDF 325396.pdf 235.83 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0d090b61-f42f-4818-83f3-0c59a3c99e5f/datastream/OBJ/view