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Examining how different ethnic, economic, and gender groups become segregated across urban spaces, schools, and firms, and the consequences of this segregation for those affected.

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.

In many cities racial and ethnic minorities have been segregated from majority populations at relatively steady levels for decades. What are the demographic and social processes that lead the persistence of segregation across generations?

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.

How does segregation arise? When does it arise? A thesis shows that the timing, geographical vicinity and the influence of others are all significant when areas become segregated. The size of the areas also affects the result.

Peter Hedström and Martin Arvidsson together with Francois Collet won the Robert K Merton best article award for their paper "The Trojan-horse mechanism: How networks reduce gender segregation."

What role do bridges, roads and parks have for the segregation in a city? And is it possible to create a computer model of a whole housing market? Those are two main questions in two new research projects at IAS.

Selcan Mutgan, a postdoc in analytical sociology at Linköping University in Sweden, was invited to Stanford as a Scancor fellow to participate in research and other activities. Read article to find out what she thinks about this adventure.