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Title: Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage Effects on Joblessness and Income in Adulthood
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1. Alvarado, Steven Elias
Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage Effects on Joblessness and Income in Adulthood
Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Childhood Adversity/Trauma; Geocoded Data; Income; Kinship; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Neighborhood Effects; Poverty; Siblings; Unemployment

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Wilson's (1987) seminal contribution to the study of residential inequality focused heavily on adult economic outcomes as crucial components of the intergenerational transmission of poverty. This study uses 26 years (14 waves) of restricted panel data from the NLSY, Children and Young Adults cohort – data that has never been used to analyze long-term neighborhood effects – to examine whether childhood and adolescent neighborhood disadvantage affects adult (ages 19-41) economic outcomes. Sibling fixed effects models suggest that youth neighborhood disadvantage increases joblessness and reduces income in adulthood, net of observed and unobserved adjustments, and that childhood exposure is more salient than adolescent exposure. Moreover, these results persist deep into adulthood and are robust to alternative specifications of neighborhood disadvantage. Adjusting for the legacy of disadvantage that cascades from grandparents to grandchildren through cousin fixed effects further reinforces the findings.
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Alvarado, Steven Elias. "Childhood Neighborhood Disadvantage Effects on Joblessness and Income in Adulthood." Presented: Chicago IL, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2017.