Despite a large literature on the importance of childhood neighbourhoods for life course transitions, there is a lack of fertility studies combining a life‐course perspective with detailed neighbourhood measures. Addressing this gap, we use longitudinal data in which the entire population of a Swedish town is geocoded at the address‐level, 1939–1967, and linked to national registers from 1968 to 2015. We study how social neighbourhoods in childhood influence fertility outcomes by constructing individual neighbourhoods at the address level to measure the social class of nearby childhood neighbours. We analyse the age at first and last birth, children ever born, birth spacing and childlessness. Growing up in higher‐status neighbourhoods is associated with delayed fertility for both men and women, but no association is found for the number of children ever born or for childlessness. Associations are stable over time, and later ages of neighbourhood exposure matter more, especially for men. Contrary to prior literature's focus on the lower classes, our results are driven by higher‐status individuals growing up in distinctly white‐collar neighbourhoods.

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二十世纪瑞典南部的童年社区和终生生育率：k-最近邻方法

尽管有大量文献探讨童年社区对于生命历程转变的重要性，但缺乏将生命历程视角与详细的社区措施相结合的生育率研究。为了解决这一差距，我们使用纵向数据，其中瑞典城镇的全部人口在 1939 年至 1967 年的地址级别进行地理编码，并与 1968 年至 2015 年的国家登记册相关联。我们通过以下方式研究儿童时期的社会社区如何影响生育结果：在地址级别构建单独的社区，以衡量附近童年邻居的社会阶层。我们分析首次和最后一次生育的年龄、已出生的孩子、生育间隔和无子女情况。在地位较高的社区长大与男性和女性的生育延迟有关，但没有发现与生育子女数量或无子女之间存在关联。随着时间的推移，这种联系是稳定的，而晚年接触邻里关系更重要，尤其是对男性来说。与先前文献关注下层阶级相反，我们的结果是由在明显白领社区长大的较高地位的个人驱动的。