Carina Mood

Carina Mood is a Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. Her research spans social stratification, economic inequality, intergenerational mobility, and immigrant integration, with a focus on child/youth well-being.

• VR-funded project: Intergenerational mobility: Shifting the focus
• Completed FORTE-funded MINQ and NORDFORSK-funded IntegrateYouth
• Affiliated with Institute for Futures Studies and CILS4EU project

Research trends show a multidimensional approach to inequality, combining register data with longitudinal surveys. Key sub-fields include:

• Intergenerational transmission mechanisms
• Educational and income mobility
• Immigrant youth integration (attitudes, labor market outcomes)
• Poverty measurement debates (material deprivation vs income metrics)
• Peer dynamics in adolescent social networks
• Urban segregation’s impact on integration opportunities

Notable methodological contributions include multiverse analysis for mobility trends and critiques of poverty measurement assumptions. She has explicitly opted out of pure methodological research on logistic regression since 2017, redirecting focus to applied social policy questions.