Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Appointments
2016-Present
Associate Professor
The Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University.
2025-Present
2017-2019
2015-2016
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University.
Education
2015
PhD, Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles. Dissertation: Matching Residential Mobility to Race-Based Neighborhood Preferences in Los Angeles: Implications for Racial Residential Segregation. Supervised by Mark S. Handcock, Ka-Yuet Liu, Robert D. Mare, and Jennie E. Brand (Chair).
2011
MA, Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles.
2003
BS, Applied Physics
Yale University.
Journal Articles
2025
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, and Eduardo Tapia. 2025. “Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility, and the Persistence of Segregation.” Demography, 62(6):1873–1898, Link.
2025
Laura Fürsich and Benjamin F Jarvis. 2025. “The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden.” European Sociological Review, 41(5):774–792, Link.
2025
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Jenjira J. Yahirun. 2025. “Exogamy, Proximity to Parents, and the Residential Choices of 1.5- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden.” Population, Space and Place, 31(8):e70117, Link.
2023
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Robert D. Mare, and Monica K. Nordvik. 2023. “Assortative mating, residential choice, and ethnic segregation.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 88:100809, Link.
2019
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2019. “Estimating Multinomial Logit Models with Samples of Alternatives.” Sociological Methodology, 49(1):341–348, Link.
2017
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Juta Kawalerowicz, and Sarah Valdez. 2017. “Impact of ancestry categorisations on residential segregation measures using Swedish register data.” Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 45(17, Suppl.), Link.
2017
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Xi Song. 2017. “Rising Intragenerational Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1969 to 2011.” American Sociological Review, 82(3):568–599, Link.
Books & Book Chapters
2025
Martin Arvidsson, Peter Hedström, Benjamin F. Jarvis, and Marc Keuschnigg. 2025. “On the intersection of analytical sociology and computational social science.” Handbook of Computational Social Science, 56–71, Link.
2021
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Marc Keuschnigg, and Peter Hedström. 2021. “Analytical sociology amidst a computational social science revolution.” Handbook of Computational Social Science, 1:33–52, Link.
2019
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2019. “Förfäder, tillhörigheter och selektiv parbildning: Sociala bindningar som segregationsbevarande mekanismer.” Segregation: Mikromekanismer och makrodynamik, Stockholm, 71–78, Link.
Works in Progress
2026
Miriam Hurtado Bodell, Benjamin Jarvis, and Selcan Mutgan. 2026. “The Ethnic Reputations of Neighborhoods: A Study of Mainstream and Social Media Discourse in Sweden.” SocArXiv, Link.
2025
Jesper Lindmarker and Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2025. “However Far Away? The Spatial Contingencies of Assortative Mating.” SocArXiv, Link.
2024
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Maël Lecoursonnais, and Guilherme Kenji Chihaya. 2024. “Ethnic Preferences in Action? A Discrete Choice Analysis of Apartment Rental Applications.” Uppsala.
Conference Presentations
2024
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2024. “Modeling segregation processes in a hybrid housing market.” 16th Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociology, Leipzig.
2022
Laura Fürsich and Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2022. “How do super-local network features shape residential segregation? A modified Schelling model.” Sunbelt 2022, Cairns, Australia.
2021
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2021. “Kinship Effects on Couples’ Residential Choices: Asymmetries by Gender and Ancestry.” Population Association of America 2021 Annual Meeting, Online, Link.
2018
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Robert D. Mare, and Monica K. Nordvik. 2018. “Assortative Mating and Residential Segregation of Ancestry Groups in Stockholm.” The 11th Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, Stanford, California.
2018
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2018. “Frontier Land, Migration and Intragenerational Mobility among American Men, 1870-1880.” 2018 Spring Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Seoul, South Korea, Link.
2017
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Guilherme Kenji Chihaya. 2017. “Kinship Effects on Residential Mobility and Ethnic Segregation in Sweden.” The 10th Annual Conference of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists, Oslo, Norway.
2016
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Guilherme Kenji Chihaya. 2016. “Kinship Effects on Residential Mobility and Ethnic Segregation in Sweden.” Population Association of America 2016 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Link.
2015
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Xi Song. 2015. “Intra-generational Occupational Mobility in the United States, 1981-2011.” Meeting of the Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28), Tilburg, Netherlands.
2015
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Robert D. Mare, and Monica K. Nordvik. 2015. “Assortative Mating and Residential Segregation of Ancestry Groups in Stockholm.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Link.
2013
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2013. “The Effect of Agricultural Opportunities on the Migration and Social Mobility of American Men, 1870-1880.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Link.
2013
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Robert D. Mare. 2013. “Do Stated Racial Preferences Match Residential Mobility Behavior?.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Link.
2012
Ted Mouw, Jennie E. Brand, and Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2012. “Immigration and Worker Displacement from High-Immigration Industries: Evidence Using Longitudinal Data from the LEHD.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Link.
2012
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2012. “Neighborhood Experiences and the Influence of Neighborhood Racial Composition in Residential Choice.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Link.
Invited and Other Talks
2024
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2024. “Segregation Dynamics in a Hybrid Housing Market.” Norrköping / Uppsala.
2023
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2023. “Preliminary findings regarding segregation processes in a hybrid housing market.” Uppsala Collaboration Meeting, Norrköping / Uppsala.
2023
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2023. “Ethnic Preferences in Action? A Discrete Choice Analysis of Apartment Rental Applications.” First Retreat for the Sweden National Research Program in Segregation, Uppsala.
2022
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Jenjira J. Yahirun. 2022. “Interethnic Unions, Proximity to Parents, and Residential Choice in Sweden.” European Population Conference 2022, Groningen, Link.
2022
Benjamin F. Jarvis, Guilherme Kenji Chihaya, and Eduardo Tapia. 2022. “Kin Propinquity, Residential Mobility, and the Persistence of Ethnic Segregation.” Center for Economic Demography Seminar.
2019
Benjamin F. Jarvis. 2019. “Segregation Research at the Institute for Analytical Sociology.” Uppsala.
2018
Benjamin F. Jarvis and Guilherme Kenji Chihaya. 2018. “Kinship Effects on Residential Mobility and Ethnic Segregation in Sweden.” Nuffield College Sociology Seminar, Oxford.
Grants
2026
The Spatial Bargain: Intergenerational Proximity and the Integration of Second-Generation Immigrants
Benjamin F. Jarvis (PI), Jenjira J. Yahirun, and Sara Forsberg
Project Number: 2026-07154, Budget: 5,030,600 SEK
Application History
2026
Finally registered · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Migration and Integration
2025
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2024
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2024
Rejected · Forte · Research Project
2023
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2023
Rejected · Forte · Research Project
2021
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2021
Not accepted for stage two · Forte · Junior Researcher
2026
2026
2025
2023
Neighborhood and school segregation across educational careers: patterns, processes, and implications for educational inequality
Benjamin F. Jarvis (PI), Adel Daoud, Elizabeth E. Bruch, Maria Brandén, Miriah Meyer, Peter Hedström, Martin Arvidsson, Selcan Mutgan, Eduardo Tapia, Erik Rosenqvist, and Laura Fürsich
Project Number: 2023-00933, Budget: 17,765,500 SEK
Application History
2023
Granted · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Environment - Segregation
2022
The pan-ethnic dimension of residential segregation: patterns and dynamics
Simone Scarpa (PI), Benjamin F. Jarvis, and Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva
Project Number: 2022-05234, Budget: 5,081,449 SEK
Application History
2022
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Segregation
2020
Not accepted for stage two · Forte · Research Project
2017
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2017
Not accepted for stage two · Forte · Junior Researcher
2022
The Role of Media in School and Neighborhood Reputation Formation, and its Effect on School and Residential Segregation
Maria Brandén (PI), Eduardo Tapia, and Benjamin F. Jarvis
Project Number: 2022-05251, Budget: 5,094,136 SEK
Application History
2022
Granted · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Segregation
2022
How do perceptions of the city inform neighbourhood selection and housing search? A comparison of second generation migrants and natives in Stockholm
Louisa Vogiazides (PI), Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva, Sara Forsberg, and Benjamin F. Jarvis
Project Number: 2022-05205, Budget: 6,721,356 SEK
Application History
2022
Granted · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2022
Rejected · Forte · Research Project
2021
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2021
Not accepted for stage two · Forte · Junior Researcher
2020
Rejected · Forte · Research Project
2020
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2021
Transforming the housing landscape: how dwelling construction and tenure conversion affect processes of residential segregation
Benjamin F. Jarvis (PI), Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva, and Yana Kucheva
Project Number: 2021-00534, Budget: 3,994,586 SEK
Application History
2021
Granted · Formas · Early-Career Researcher
2021
2019
An Integrated Register Database for Analysis of City Planning and Land Use
Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva (PI), Erika Sandow, Jenny Olofsson, Benjamin F. Jarvis, Karen Haandrikman, Sarah Valdez, Simone Scarpa, and Örjan Pettersson
Project Number: 2019-06492
Application History
2019
Needs audit closed · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Infrastructure - Inventory of Needs
2019
Like candidate, like voter: the role of life trajectories and representativeness of right wing radical populist candidates in Sweden
Juta Kawalerowicz (PI), Étienne Ollion, Satu Helske, and Benjamin F. Jarvis
Project Number: 2019-03002, Budget: 4,282,734 SEK
Application History
2019
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2019
Not accepted for stage two · Forte · Junior Researcher
2018
Mining for Meaning: The Dynamics of Public Discourse on Migration
Marc Keuschnigg (PI), Étienne Ollion, Sophie Mützel, Måns Magnusson, Sarah Valdez, and Benjamin F. Jarvis
Project Number: 2018-05170, Budget: 17,216,881 SEK
Application History
2018
Granted · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Environment - Migration and Integration
2018
The Effects of Public and Private Housing Markets on Ethnic Segregation
Sarah Valdez (PI), Benjamin F. Jarvis, Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva, and Simone Scarpa
Project Number: 2018-01562, Budget: 4,384,922 SEK
Application History
2018
Granted · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
2018
2018
The segregating effects of market and non-market housing allocation mechanisms
Benjamin Jarvis (PI), Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva, Sarah Valdez, and Simone Scarpa
Project Number: 2018-00269, Budget: 8,807,105 SEK
Application History
2018
Granted · Formas · Targeted Call - Research Project in Sustainable Spatial Planning
2018
Not accepted for stage two · Forte · Junior Researcher
2018
Rejected · Formas · Targeted Call - Housing Policy for Social Sustainability
2016
2016
Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Sweden: Determinants, Mechanisms and Outcomes
Chanchal Balachandran (PI), Benjamin F. Jarvis, and Frederik Witte
Project Number: 2016-02347, Budget: 5,939,824 SEK
Application History
2016
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Project - Humanities and Social Sciences
Teaching
2024-2026
Research Methods in Strategic Urban and Regional Planning
Master’s Programme in Strategic Urban and Regional Planning | Linköping University
Teaching History
2026
Guest Lecturer
Spring 2025
Guest Lecturer
Spring 2024
Guest Lecturer
2017-2026
2019-2025
Inequality and Segregation: Theory and Measurement
Master’s Programme in Computational Social Science | Linköping University
Teaching History
Fall 2025
Guest Lecturer
Fall 2024
Guest Lecturer
Fall 2023
Guest Lecturer
Fall 2022
Guest Lecturer
Fall 2021
Guest Lecturer
Fall 2020
Guest Lecturer
Fall 2019
Course Coordinator
2019-2025
Discrete Choice Modelling
Master’s Programme in Computational Social Science | Linköping University
Teaching History
Spring 2025
Guest Lecturer
Spring 2024
Guest Lecturer
Spring 2023
Guest Lecturer
Spring 2022
Guest Lecturer
Spring 2021
Course Coordinator
Spring 2019
Course Coordinator
2018
Discrete Choice Modelling with Applications
The Institute for Analytical Sociology | Linköping University
Teaching History
Fall 2018
Course Coordinator
2017
IAS Stata Workshop
The Institute for Analytical Sociology | Linköping University
Teaching History
Spring 2017
Course Coordinator
2017
Residential Segregation: Measurement and Mechanisms
Department of Sociology and Human Geography | University of Oslo
Teaching History
Spring 2017
Guest Lecturer
2016
Introduction to Analytical Sociology
The Institute for Analytical Sociology | Linköping University
Teaching History
Fall 2016
Guest Lecturer
2016
Residential Segregation: Measurement and Analysis
The Institute for Analytical Sociology | Linköping University
Teaching History
Fall 2016
Course Coordinator
Supervision
Doctoral Supervision
2026
Jesper Lindmarker. Propinquity and the Assortative Mating of Immigrant Groups in Sweden
Supervision: Carl Nordlund, Benjamin F. Jarvis, and Károly Takács.
Supervised Doctoral Dissertation. Linköping University. Norrköping.
2024
Laura Fürsich. The Urban Tapestry: Essays on the Relationship Between Social Networks and Residential Segregation
Supervision: Maria Brandén, Benjamin F. Jarvis, and Sarah Valdez.
Supervised Doctoral Dissertation. Linköping University. Norrköping.
2023
Emanuel Wittberg. Corruption risks in a mature democracy : Mechanisms of social advantage and danger zones for corruption
Supervision: Gissur Erlingson, Karl Wennberg, and Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Supervised Doctoral Dissertation. Linköping University. Norrköping.
Master’s Supervision
2026
Aleksandra Bocheva. How predictable is love? Machine learning meetings partner choice
Supervision: Jesper Lindmarker and Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2026
Yannick Paul Kayser. The Dark Side of AI - Narrative analysis of human labour in the AI supply chain
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2026
Yan Gao. Who moves the market? – Evidence from weibo blogger communities and stock price forecasting in china
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2026
Jie Yang. The impact of the introduction of tuition fees for higher education on international students’ program choices in sweden
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis and Jesper Lindmarker.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2025
Emerald Adjei. Ethnicity or ideology?: Investigating the drivers of voter choice in ghana
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis and Carl Nordlund.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2024
Kyu Woon Ha. Diffusion, spatial dynamics, and residential segregation focusing on chinese and korean populations in los angeles and orange county
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2024
Axel Johansson. A computational frame analysis of Stockholm neighborhoods – Using transformer-based computer vision models and sparse logistic PCA to construct visual frames from news images
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis and Gabriel Eilertsen.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2024
Sarah Lorraine Newton. Exploring the inclusivity of electric vehicle infrastructure - Neighbourhood demographics and public charging accessibility in Gothenburg, Sweden
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2024
Jiayi Chen. Couple-level gender role attitudes and their associations with relationship satisfaction: Evidence from china
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2023
Philip Öberg. A spatially explicit model of segregation dynamics
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2023
Wenshi San. How do housing systems affect residential segregation? – A residential segregation model based on wealth and queue points
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis and Eduardo Tapia.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2022
Johanna Tegborg. Impacts of tenure mixing on income segregation - an analysis of segregation processes in sweden
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2022
Lijun Peng. Using topic modelling to explore the association between neighborhood reputations and demographic composition
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis and Hendrik Ertz.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2021
Simona Bisiani. Blank spots, critical information needs and local journalism funding
Supervision: Étienne Ollion and Benjamin F. Jarvis.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
2021
Di Ping. Measuring cultural differences by using wikipedia to predict the world cultural map
Supervision: Benjamin F. Jarvis and Rubing Shen.
Master’s thesis. Linköping University. Norrköping, Sweden.
Service
Ongoing
Peer Review
Reviewer for American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Socius, Social Forces, Sociological Methods and Research, Journal of Artificial Societies and Simulation, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, and Population, Space and Place.
2012-Present
Professional Memberships
Member, Population Association of America (2012-present); American Sociological Association (2015-present); ISA RC28 Social Stratification (2015-present).
Skills
2010-Present
Stata
Discrete choice models, including logit, multinomial logit, conditional logit, and mixed logit.
2010-Present
R
Network analysis, discrete choice modeling, data wrangling, and visualization, including sna, ergm, mlogit, tidyr, and ggplot2.
2014-2015
AnyLogic
Java-based agent-based modeling.
2000-2003
MATLAB
Scientific computing and applied physics coursework.
Miscellaneous
2022-2023
Parental Leave
November-January
2020
Parental Leave
January-December
2017
Parental Leave
August-December 2017
Social network inference from complex digital data: methods and applications
Rejected · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Environment - Interdisciplinary
Claudio Altafini (PI), Alexandra Segerberg, Matteo Magnani, Sarah Valdez, and Benjamin F. Jarvis
Project Number: 2021-02446, Budget: 22,142,780 SEK
Application History
2021
Not accepted for stage two · Vetenskapsrådet · Research Environment - Interdisciplinary