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Childhood Neighborhoods and Lifetime Fertility in Twentieth-Century Sweden: A K-Nearest Neighbor Approach

de Souza Maia, Vinicius LU orcid ; Dribe, Martin LU and Hedefalk, Finn LU orcid (2023) Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2023
Abstract
In addition to the individual and family context, neighborhoods and communities are important for the individual life course and family transitions. We study how social neighborhoods in childhood influence fertility outcomes in adulthood. Theories focusing on motivation, aspirations and attitudes or peer influence generally predict that low-SES children living in high-SES neighborhoods benefit from social contact, whereas resource competition and relative deprivation theories give opposite predictions. We model neighborhoods using a k-nearest neighbor approach that solves methodological problems with spatial aggregation. We study individuals growing up in Landskrona in southern Sweden, 1939-1967, and follow them through adulthood... (More)
In addition to the individual and family context, neighborhoods and communities are important for the individual life course and family transitions. We study how social neighborhoods in childhood influence fertility outcomes in adulthood. Theories focusing on motivation, aspirations and attitudes or peer influence generally predict that low-SES children living in high-SES neighborhoods benefit from social contact, whereas resource competition and relative deprivation theories give opposite predictions. We model neighborhoods using a k-nearest neighbor approach that solves methodological problems with spatial aggregation. We study individuals growing up in Landskrona in southern Sweden, 1939-1967, and follow them through adulthood regardless of where they reside in Sweden for the period 1968-2015. We measure early childbearing and children ever born. Our findings show that women growing up in a white-collar neighborhood are less likely to have a first child before age 20, but do not have a higher life-time fertility. (Less)
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Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2023
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New Orleans, United States
conference dates
2023-04-12 - 2023-04-15
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Childhood neighborhood effects on fertility, family formation and the transition to adulthood
The long reach of the neighborhood: Health, education and earnings in Landskrona, Sweden, 1904-2015
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English
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  title        = {{Childhood Neighborhoods and Lifetime Fertility in Twentieth-Century Sweden: A K-Nearest Neighbor Approach}},
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