Department of Sociology University of Wisconsin-Madison
About Me
My name is Masoud Movahed and I am Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
I completed my doctoral studies in Sociology (with a minor in Public Affairs) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, I also completed an M.A. in Economics & Sociology at New York University. Broadly, my interests lie at the nexus of social stratification and economic sociology.
Most of my works use computational and quantitative methods, but I retain a keen interest for comparative historical methods. My dissertation entitled“Varieties of Capitalism, Income Inequality, and Mobility,”draws on cross-national panel data for much of the post World War II era to explain why some countries are more egalitarian than others. One of the its chapters, shifts the focus to the United States, where I draw on explicitly spatial models to parameterize spatial dependence in the intergenerational income mobility data across US places. The first paper of my dissertation published in theInternational Journal of Comparative Sociologywon multiple awards from the American Sociological Association. The awards include:
