sociological research on segregation and mobility
Propinquity—the tendency to form social bonds with those who live nearby—is a key mechanism through which ethnic segregation can give rise to ethnic endogamy—the formation of romantic unions between partners with the same ethnic group membership(s). In this paper, co-authored with Jesper Lindmarker, we use discrete choice models applied to Swedish register data to quantify …
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In this paper, led by Laura Fürsich, we examine how former secondary school classmates influence the residential mobility behavior of young adults. Using Swedish population registers, we identify a set of people who attended ninth or twelfth grade in Sweden. We connect these people to their ninth and twelfth grade classmates and trace their residential …
Where single people live shapes opportunities to meet romantic partners of different backgrounds. Residential segregation along ethnic lines imposes constraints on these opportunities, increasing the chances that the potential partners people meet will share their own ethnic backgrounds, and reducing the chances of making contact across group boundaries. At the same time, who people marry …
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This paper re-examines the appropriate procedures to employ when sampling unchosen alternatives when estimating multinomial (aka conditional) logistic regression models. I show that recent advice presented in Sociological Methodology (SM) deviates from the econometric literature. I use data from the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality to demonstrate that the original econometric advice is sound, and that …
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This project examines how the intragenerational social mobility of American men between the farm and non-farm sectors during the 19th century was conditioned by the spatial distribution of economic opportunities. The main thesis of the project is that unsettled agricultural land, particularly in the Midwest, created opportunities for mobility into farming, but these social transitions …
My coauthor, Guilherme Chihaya, and I examine the links between residential segregation, residential mobility, and the spatial distribution of kin in Stockholm. Residential segregation between native Swedes and new immigrants is established when immigrants first settle in Sweden. This creates disparities in the spatial distribution of kin for immigrant children compared to native Swedes. Using a …
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Country-of-birth data contained in registers are often aggregated to create broad ancestry group categories. Along with my coauthors, Sarah Valdez and Juta Kawalerowicz, I examine how measures of residential segregation vary according to levels of aggregation. We use Swedish register data to calculate pairwise dissimilarity indices from 1990 to 2012 for ancestry groups defined at four …
My coauthor, Xi Song, and I use the PSID to show that levels of intragenerational occupational mobility, assessed using two-year mobility intervals, have been increasing during the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st century. We examine mobility at multiple levels of occupational aggregation, and find that mobility is increasing at nearly …
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Benjamin Fletcher Jarvis 