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Selcan Mutgan

Assistant Professor

My research primarily concerns spatial income inequality, and school and residential segregation.

Segregation research

My research primarily concerns spatial income inequality, and school and residential segregation.

My current project is related to understanding how school and residential choices of parents are linked and how these two choices jointly affect school segregation. In my projects, I use population level Swedish micro-data.

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Publications

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Selcan Mutgan (2021)
Free to Choose?: Studies of Opportunity Constraints and the Dynamics of School Segregation

2025

Selcan Mutgan, Peter Hedström, Martin Arvidsson (2025) Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process European Sociological Review (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Fredrik W Andersson, Selcan Mutgan, Axel Norgren, Karl Wennberg (2025) Seeking opportunity or socio-economic status? Housing and school choice in Sweden Urban Studies, Vol. 62, p. 367-386 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Selcan Mutgan, Eduardo Tapia (2025) Can school closures decrease ethnic school segregation?: Evidence from primary and lower secondary schools in Stockholm, Sweden Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 47, p. 404-427 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2023

Selcan Mutgan, Jonathan Mijs (2023) Income Inequality and Residential Segregation in "Egalitarian" Sweden: Lessons from a Least Likely Case Sociological Science, Vol. 10, p. 348-373 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2021

Selcan Mutgan (2021) Free to Choose?: Studies of Opportunity Constraints and the Dynamics of School Segregation

Research

An ancestry-segregated school class friendship network.

Peer influence or discrimination? Understanding the mechanisms behind ethnic differences in school achievement.

This project explores the achievement gaps in schools among students from different ethnic backgrounds. By analysing data from European youth and Swedish registers, we aim to increase awareness of bias in the education system.
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School segregation

The project focuses on the feedback mechanisms between residential and school choices of parents.We aim to understand how residential choices driven by school preferences/choices given the residential choices affect school segregation in Sweden.
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Social Network Analysis

Developing and applying novel methods to examine the formation of social ties and the consequences of these ties for patterns of segregation, inequality, polarization and social change.
Cities’ attraction of talent escalates the regional divide.

Urban scaling and the regional divide

Our research on urban scaling, published in Science Advances, calls into question an influential theory of the self-reinforcing dynamics of city growth. We show that big cities feed on their hinterlands to sustain growth.

News

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IAS celebrates 10 years

It all started with taking risks. Now, ten years have passed since the Institute for analytical sociology (IAS) was founded."It feels like we have achieved a lot," comments Maria Brandén, senior associate professor.
Porträtt av Selcan Mutgan.

Different income groups increasingly isolated from each other

People with the same level of income increasingly live in the same kind of areas. This is shown in new research from Linköping University, where changes in income segregation in Sweden have been investigated for almost 30 years.
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School closures inefficient in combatting segregation, simulation shows

In recent years, municipalities have sometimes closed schools dominated by students of immigrant background to counter segregation. But according to new computer simulations at Linköping University, this method seldom gives the desired result.

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Organisation

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