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I’m Vardan Barsegyan, I conduct quantitative social science research in political inequality, social inequality, and mobility, including voluntary and forced migration. I analyze survey and administrative data in R, STATA, Python, and Mplus.

I’m currently working as a scientific researcher at the Research and Data Centre (in Dutch: Het Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Datacentrum - WODC) - the knowledge centre of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. In 2019-2023, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of sociology at Utrecht University (Utrecht, the Netherlands).

I have been living in the Netherlands since 2016, studied and grew up in Russia, and I was born in Armenia in 1990.

My research interests

I study how social inequality translates into political inequality. More particularly, how political participation of people is shaped by their social origin, income, education, and occupational status.

I also study how educational outcomes of students are shaped by their cognitive ability, social (family) origin, and their interplay. For example, I study differences in educational outcomes of first-generation students and continuous-generation students.

Finally, voluntary and forced migration is another component of my research interests. I study the causes and consequences of (in)voluntary migration both for the origin and for the host societies.

I mostly use survey and administrative data, including twin-data. I apply a wide range of quantitative methods including structural equation modeling, latent variable analysis, longitudinal, panel, and multilevel analysis, and behavioral genetic methods.