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Louise Caron (INED),
Mathieu Ichou (INED), with McAvay (University of York)
& Rosa Weber (INED & Stockholm University)
 

How Inherited Residential Environments Shape Socioeconomic Outcomes:
Evidence from Immigrant and Native Families over Three Generations

A large body of literature has established that living in deprived areas during childhood negatively impacts outcomes in adulthood. While most studies adopt a single-generation perspective, only a long-term and multigenerational approach can capture the full scope of neighbourhood effects since residential characteristics are often transmitted from one generation to the next. This article adds to the rare studies that explore the relationship between residential context and socioeconomic outcomes over three generations. We examine how the combined effects of parents’ and grandparents’ residential environments shape grandchildren’s SES outcomes. As an original contribution, we assess whether these multigenerational residential effects are more salient for children of immigrants compared to natives, and explore the joint effects of neighbourhood SES and ethnoracial composition, in the novel context of France.

We link data from the recent TeO2 survey with historical censuses to construct measures of grandparents’ and parents’ residential environments in terms of ethnoracial composition and socioeconomic disadvantage. We use logistic regressions to compare the multigenerational effects of these indicators on grandchildren’s educational and labour-market outcomes, and test interactions to explore how they differ between immigrant and native families. We expect to find a negative effect of residential disadvantage on grandchildren’s SES outcomes, which will be the strongest when both parents and grandparents lived in deprived settings. However, we anticipate that multigenerational exposure to areas with ethnoracial diversity may have a positive effect, as coethnic proximity might favour the integration of immigrant-origin children.

Language: English

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