Congratulations to Dr. Masoud Movahed, Broom Center Research Associate, on his recent publication Demography. Masoud Movahed, and co-author Emilio Parrado, examine the fertility rates of 21 countries in the Global North over the span of three decades.
They find support for a new theoretical approach to explaining the variation in fertility rates across the Global North, using the varieties of capitalism framework. Varieties of capitalism examine how the social-structural institutional characteristics of national economies, such as the centralization of wage bargaining and the availability of employment protection laws, are associated with variation in countries' total fertility rates in the Global North. Movahed and Parrado (2026: 513, 514) find that: “centralization of wage bargaining, the OECD employment protection legislation index, and public expenditure on ALMPs as a percentage of GDP are negatively associated with total fertility rates between countries and over time.”
Read the full article in Demography.