Peer-Reviewed Articles

9 Articles  ·  4 Awards & Honors

2026

Masoud Movahed & Emilio A. Parrado

Varieties of Capitalism and Cross-National Variation in Fertility Rates ↗

Demography  63(2): 511–536

2025

Karl Vachuska & Masoud Movahed

The Causal Effect of Gun Violence on Everyday Mobility Patterns Across US Neighborhoods ↗

Spatial Demography

Media coverage in The Current and Edhat Santa Barbara

2025

Masoud Movahed

Working-Class Structural Power, Associational Power, and Income Inequality ↗

Journal of Industrial Relations

★ JIR Joe Isaac Award — Special Commendation

2024

Masoud Movahed & Tiffany Neman

Intergenerational Income Mobility in the United States: A Racial-Spatial Account ↗

Social Science Research  123: 103064

★ Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, ASA Mathematical Sociology Section Lead Research Article, Volume 123 Exclusive interview with Social Science Research on spatial methods

2023

Masoud Movahed

Varieties of Capitalism and Income Inequality ↗

International Journal of Comparative Sociology  64(6): 621–657

★ Terence K. Hopkins Article Award, ASA Political Economy of the World System Section ★ Honorable Mention, Outstanding Article, ASA Sociology of Development Section

2023

Chad Alan Goldberg & Masoud Movahed

The New Class and Right-Wing Populism: The Case of Wisconsin ↗

The Sociological Quarterly  65(1): 105–125

Featured in an interview on PBS

2023

Masoud Movahed & Elizabeth Hirsh

Mobilizing Equal Employment Rights: The Social and Political Determinants of Discrimination Complaints (2009–2018) ↗

The Sociological Quarterly  64(2): 296–319

2023

Masoud Movahed & Elizabeth Hirsh

The Regional Determinants of Collective Action in the Era of American Resistance ↗

Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements  14(1): 81–100

2020

Masoud Movahed

Industrializing an Oil-Based Economy: Evidence from Iran’s Auto Industry ↗

Journal of International Development  32(7): 1148–1170