Neighborhoods may contribute to the maintenance of inequality in well-being across generations. We use restricted geo-coded National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data (NLSY 1979 and NLSY Child and Young Adult) to estimate the association between multigenerational exposure to childhood neighborhood disadvantage and subsequent adult exposure. Invoking cousin fixed effects models that adjust for unobserved legacies of disadvantage that cascade across three generations, we find that families where both parents and their children are exposed to childhood neighborhood disadvantage are likely to pass on the legacy of neighborhood disadvantage to successive generations, net of observed and unobserved confounders. Second, we find a direct intergenerational neighborhood association, net of observed and unobserved confounders. Third, we find that unobserved confounders nested in the grandparent generation explain away the intragenerational neighborhood association. These findings reorient neighborhood theory to more seriously attend to the interdependence of neighborhood-level and individual-level antecedents of inequality across generations.

社区可能有助于维持几代人的福祉不平等。我们使用受限制的地理编码的国家青年纵向调查（NLSY 1979和NLSY儿童和年轻成人）来估计多代儿童暴露于儿童邻里的不利因素与随后的成年人暴露之间的关联。调用表亲固定效应模型，该模型调整了三代人之间未观察到的劣势遗产，我们发现父母和子女都面临童年邻里劣势的家庭很可能将邻里劣势的遗产传给后代，净观察到的和未观察到的混杂因素。其次，我们发现了一个直接的代际邻里关联，其中包含观察到的和未观察到的混杂因素。第三，我们发现祖父母代中未观察到的混杂因素解释了代内邻里关联。这些发现重新调整了邻里理论，以更认真地关注邻里层面和个人层面的跨代不平等的前因之间的相互依存关系。