Solveig Topstad Borgen

Postdoctoral Fellow - Sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi
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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 31 Harriet Holters hus 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1096 Blindern 0317 Oslo
Other affiliations Institutt for pedagogikk (Student)

Academic interests

  • Ethnic segregation
  • Education
  • Quantitative methods

Background

  • PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, UiO
  • Adviser, NOKUT (Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education)
  • MA, political science, UiO, 2011
  • BA, international studies, UiO, 2009
Tags: Ethnic segregation, Education, Quantitative methods

Publications

  • Brini, Elisa; Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Borgen, Nicolai T. (2023). Avoiding the eyeballing fallacy: Visualizing statistical differences between estimates using the pheatplot command. SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/fghcd.
  • Andersen, Synøve Nygaard; Borgen, Nicolai T.; Borgen, Solveig Topstad; Brini, Elisa; Frith, Michael James & Gugushvili, Alexi (2023). Replicating" State Action to Prevent Violence against Women". A Comment on Córdova & Kras (2022). I4R Discussion Paper Series, The Institute for Replication (I4R). ISSN 2752-1931.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Horizontal Advantage: Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study Among Children of Immigrants. Demography. ISSN 0070-3370. 60(4), p. 1031–1058. doi: 10.1215/00703370-10823537. Full text in Research Archive
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2023). It's not all about the peers: Reintroducing school context to the school segregation literature. Acta Sociologica. ISSN 0001-6993. 67(1), p. 66–87. doi: 10.1177/00016993231154128. Full text in Research Archive
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2022). Masked by the mean: immigrants in school and differential effects on student achievements. European Sociological Review. ISSN 0266-7215. 39(3), p. 333–351. doi: 10.1093/esr/jcac035. Full text in Research Archive
  • Borgen, Nicolai T.; Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2022). The Counteracting Nature of Contextual Influences: Peer Effects and Offsetting Mechanisms in Schools. Social Forces. ISSN 0037-7732. 101(3), p. 1288–1320. doi: 10.1093/sf/soac023. Full text in Research Archive
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2021). Reaching Higher? Horizontal Stratification in the Educational Careers of Immigrant Descendants (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/h8dtf/). SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/h8dtf.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2021). It’s not all About the Peers: Reintroducing School Context to the School Segregation Literature. SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/yc37h.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Borgen, Nicolai T. (2016). Student retention in higher education: Folk high schools and educational decisions. Higher Education. ISSN 0018-1560. 71(4), p. 505–523. doi: 10.1007/s10734-015-9921-7.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Borgen, Nicolai T. (2015). Folk high schools and dropouts from upper secondary school: effects of non-academic investments in dropouts. School Effectiveness and School Improvement. ISSN 0924-3453. 26(2), p. 153–168. doi: 10.1080/09243453.2014.896384.

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  • Brini, Elisa; Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Borgen, Nicolai T. (2023). PHEATPLOT: Stata module to visualize p-values.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2023). Norsk ph.d. i sosiologi rangert blant de tre beste i Europa. [Internet]. SV-nytt.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2023). Ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods: Differential effects on educational outcomes.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2023). Ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods: Differential effects on educational outcomes.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad; Borgen, Nicolai T. & Zachrisson, Henrik Daae (2023). Ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods: Differential effects on educational outcomes.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2022). Flere slutter på videregående skoler i Oslo med mange minoritetselever. Hvorfor? [Internet]. forskning.no.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Reaching Higher? Horizontal Stratification in the Educational Careers of Immigrant Descendants.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2022). Horizontal Advantage: Ethnic Inequality in Choice of Postsecondary Field of Study in the Educational Careers of Children of Immigrants.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad; Borgen, Nicolai T. & Zachrisson, Henrik Daae (2022). Ethnic minorities in disadvantaged neighborhoods: Differential effects on educational outcomes.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2022). Inntaksmodellen har trolig liten betydning for frafallet i skolen. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2022). Reaching Higher? Horizontal Stratification in the Educational Careers of Immigrant Descendants.
  • Rogne, Adrian Farner; Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Nordrum, Erlend Ingridsønn (2021). School Segregation and Native Flight. Evidence from School Catchment Area Borders (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/xykdg/). SocArXiv. doi: 10.31235/osf.io/xykdg.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2021). Tough Choices? Educational Careers and Post-secondary Horizontal Stratification among Children of Positively Selected Immigrants.
  • Borgen, Nicolai T.; Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2019). The disadvantage of having high achieving peers: Gender gaps and the complex nature of gender peer effects.
  • Borgen, Nicolai T.; Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2019). Why having better peers is not always a good thing: The complex nature of gender peer effects.
  • Borgen, Nicolai T.; Borgen, Solveig Topstad & Birkelund, Gunn Elisabeth (2019). The disadvantage of high-achieving peers: Gender gaps and the complex nature of gender peer effects.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2019). Masked by the mean: immigrant peers in school and distributional variation in student achievement.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2019). Masked by the Mean: A Quantile Regression Approach to Immigrant Peer Effects on School Achievements.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2018). Immigrant school segregation and educational outcomes.
  • Borgen, Solveig Topstad (2022). Segregated School Contexts, Peer Effects, and Inequalities in Education. Universitetet i Oslo.

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Published Sep. 7, 2015 9:00 AM - Last modified Jan. 9, 2024 10:51 AM