Print Email Facebook Twitter Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work Title Using sibling data to explore the impact of neighbourhood histories and childhood family context on income from work Author Hedman, L.K. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing; Uppsala University) Manley, D.J. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing; University of Bristol) van Ham, M. (TU Delft OLD Urban Renewal and Housing; University of St Andrews) Date 2019 Abstract Previous research has reported evidence of intergenerational transmissions of neighbourhood status and social and economic outcomes later in life. Research also shows neighbourhood effects on adult incomes of both childhood and adult neighbourhood experiences. However, these estimates of neighbourhood effects may be biased because confounding factors originating from the childhood family context. It is likely that part of the neighbourhood effects observed for adults, are actually lingering effects of the family in which someone grew up. This study uses a sibling design to disentangle family and neighbourhood effects on income, with contextual sibling pairs used as a control group. The sibling design helps us to separate the effects of childhood family and neighbourhood context from adult neighbourhood experiences. Using data from Swedish population registers, including the full Swedish population, we show that the neighbourhood effect on income from both childhood and adult neighbourhood experiences, is biased upwards by the influence of the childhood family context. Ultimately, we conclude that there is a neighbourhood effect on income from adult neighbourhood experiences, but that the childhood neighbourhood effect is actually a childhood family context effect. We find that there is a long lasting effect of the family context on income later in life, and that this effect is strong regardless the individual neighbourhood pathway later in life. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:220b184a-df03-4d73-8fb6-37c385b2c694 DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217635 ISSN 1932-6203 Source PLoS ONE, 14 (5) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 L.K. Hedman, D.J. Manley, M. van Ham Files PDF journal.pone.0217635.pdf 746.74 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:220b184a-df03-4d73-8fb6-37c385b2c694/datastream/OBJ/view