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Rethinking the Long-Term Consequences of Growing Up in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood: Lessons from Sweden

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  • Lars Brännström
  • Yerko Rojas

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Using extensive longitudinal register data for more than 80 000 young metropolitan Swedes, this study addresses the effect of a disadvantaged neighbourhood social context on groupings of outcomes that are important for the living conditions of young adults. The overall results show that growing up in a disadvantaged neighbourhood increases the risk of experiencing comparably more unemployment, having less education and receiving more social assistance than similar young people from more affluent neighbourhoods. However, when the estimated effects of neighbourhood are assessed by means of an epidemiological impact measure that takes the prevalence of the risk factor at population level into account; these effects prove to be minimal. We discuss possible drawbacks of placing too much emphasis on policies targeting disadvantaged neighbourhoods versus universal social policy measures.

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  • Lars Brännström & Yerko Rojas, 2012. "Rethinking the Long-Term Consequences of Growing Up in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood: Lessons from Sweden," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(6), pages 729-747.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:27:y:2012:i:6:p:729-747
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2012.714460
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    1. Gustafsson, Björn Anders & Katz, Katarina & Österberg, Torun, 2020. "Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden," IZA Discussion Papers 12880, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Doebler, Stefanie & Broadhurst, Karen & Alrouh, Bachar & Cusworth, Linda & Griffiths, Lucy, 2022. "Born into care: Associations between area-level deprivation and the rates of children entering care proceedings in Wales," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 141(C).
    3. Björn Gustafsson & Katarina Katz & Torun Osterberg, 2019. "Social Assistance Receipt Among Young Adults Who Grow Up in Different Neighborhoods of Metropolitan Sweden," Poverty & Public Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(4), pages 302-324, December.
    4. Martin Klinthäll & Susanne Urban, 2016. "The strength of ethnic ties: Routes into the labour market in spaces of segregation," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 53(1), pages 3-16, January.
    5. Almquist, Ylva B. & Brännström, Lars, 2014. "Childhood peer status and the clustering of social, economic, and health-related circumstances in adulthood," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 67-75.

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