title: The impact of childhood experiences and family members outside the household on residential environment choices.
abstract: Choices of urban, suburban or rural residential environments have often been studied from a life-course perspective. In this paper, an examination is made of the influence of childhood experiences and of residential environment choices of family members outside the household. It is argued that socialisation, location-specific capital and the wish to maintain close family ties may result in living in a similar residential environment later in life and in similar environments to siblings and parents. Results of multinomial logistic regression analyses of data from the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study show that the residential environment during childhood is indeed strongly associated with the current residential environment. Moreover, individuals show a strong similarity to their parents and siblings in their residential environment, even after accounting for residential inertia and return migration.
authors.affiliation: University of Amsterdam.
authors.forename: Marjolein
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blaauboer
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D002669:Child Welfare / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D005191:Family Characteristics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events / Q000266:history; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000266:history; D012424:Rural Population / Q000266:history; D012919:Social Behavior / Q000266:history; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors / Q000266:history; D013383:Suburban Population / Q000266:history; D014505:Urban Population / Q000266:history