Neighbourhood child poverty in Sweden

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This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents' low employment and to low parental education.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4881

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
• Subject: Child poverty ; neighbourhood ; Sweden ; Kinder ; Armut ; Nachbarschaftsökonomie ; Ballungsraum ; Schweden

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gustafsson, Björn ; Österberg, Torun
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/36892
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET