Book

• (2022) Jonsson, Jan O.; Mood, Carina & Georg Treuter. Integration bland unga: En mångkulturell generation växer upp. [Integration among youth: A multicultural generation grows up]. Stockholm: Makadam förlag. 291 pages.

Textbook

• (2026) Bäck, Hanna; Forslid, Rikard; Mood, Carina; Tallberg, Jonas; Vlachos, Jonas and Maja Torres Madzar. SeSam Samhällskunskap. [SeSam Social Sciences]. Natur & Kultur. 400 pages.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• (2026) Mood, C., & Jonsson, J. O. Persistent boundaries. Partnership patterns among children of immigrants and natives in Sweden. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 52(3), 635–663.
• (2025) Ljungström, Andreas & Carina Mood. Inequalities in early childhood education and care by immigrant background. Research on Social Stratification and Mobility, 101110.
• (2025) Mood, Carina. Equalization through deterioration: The shrinking gender gap in Swedish school grades. Sociological Science 12(27): 670–684.
• (2025) Mood, Carina & Sara Kjellsson. Divergent incomes, divergent lives? A multidimensional assessment of disparities in the level of living during Sweden’s income equality U-turn, 1968–2010. Mens & Maatschappij 100(2): 179–200.
• (2023) Engzell, Per & Carina Mood. Understanding Patterns and Trends in Income Mobility through Multiverse Analysis. American Sociological Review 88(4): 600–626.
• (2023) Dollmann, Jörg; Jonsson, Jan O.; Mood, Carina & Frida Rudolphi. Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion. European Sociological Review 39(3): 384–399.
• (2022) la Roi, Chaim & Carina Mood. Attitudes in motion: Acculturation in views on family, sexuality and gender roles among immigrant-background youth in Sweden. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(15): 3796–3815.
• (2022) Jonsson, Jan O. & Carina Mood. Vad är ‘fattigdom’ och hur bör den mätas? [What is poverty and how should it be measured?] Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift 99(4).
• (2019) Engzell, Per; Mood, Carina & Jan O. Jonsson. It’s All about the Parents: Inequality Transmission across Three Generations in Sweden. Sociological Science. DOI: 10.15195/v7.a10.
• (2017) Gregg, Paul; Jonsson, Jan O.; Macmillan, Lindsey & Carina Mood. The role of education for intergenerational income mobility: A comparison of the US, Great Britain, and Sweden. Social Forces 96(1): 121–152.
• (2017) Mood, Carina. More than money: Social class, income, and the intergenerational persistence of advantage. Sociological Science 4: 263–287.
• (2017) Mood, Carina; Jonsson, Jan O. & Sara Brolin Låftman. The mental health advantage of immigrant-background youth: The role of family factors. Journal of Marriage and Family 79(2): 419–436.
• (2016) Mood, Carina; Jonsson, Jan O. & Sara Brolin Låftman. Immigrant integration and youth mental health in four European countries. European Sociological Review 32(6): 716–729.
• (2016) Plenty, Stephanie M. & Carina Mood. Money, Peers and Parents: Social and Economic Aspects of Inequality in Youth Wellbeing. Journal of Youth and Adolescence 45: 1294–1308.
• (2016) Jonsson, Jan O.; Mood, Carina & Erik Bihagen. Poverty trends during two recessions and two recoveries: Lessons from Sweden 1991–2013. IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5(1): 3.
• (2016) Mood, Carina & Jan O. Jonsson. Trends in child poverty in Sweden: parental and child reports. Child Indicators Research 9: 825–854.
• (2016) Mood, Carina & Jan O. Jonsson. The social consequences of poverty: An empirical test on longitudinal data. Social Indicators Research 127: 633–652.
• (2016) Breen, Richard; Mood, Carina & Jan O. Jonsson. How much scope for a mobility paradox? The relationship between social and income mobility in Sweden. Sociological Science 3: 39.
• (2015) Hjalmarsson, Simon & Carina Mood. Do poorer youth have fewer friends? The role of household and child economic resources in adolescent school-class friendships. Children and Youth Services Review 57: 201–211.
• (2015) Mood, Carina. The not-very-rich and the very poor: Poverty persistence and poverty concentration in Sweden. Journal of European Social Policy 25: 316–330.
• (2014) Gong, Tong et al. Parental socioeconomic status, childhood asthma and medication use: A population-based study. PLOS ONE 9(9): e106579.
• (2013) Mood, Carina. Life-style and self-rated global health in Sweden: A prospective analysis spanning three decades. Preventive Medicine 57: 802–806.
• (2013) Mood, Carina. Social Assistance dynamics in Sweden: Duration dependence and heterogeneity. Social Science Research 42(1): 120–139.
• (2011) Mood, Carina. Lagging behind in good times: Immigrants and the increased dependence on Social Assistance in Sweden. International Journal of Social Welfare 20(1): 55–65.
• (2010) Mood, Carina. Neighborhood Social Influence and Welfare Receipt in Sweden: A Panel Data Analysis. Social Forces 88(3): 1331–1356.
• (2010) Mood, Carina. Logistic regression: Why we cannot do what we think we can do and what we can do about it. European Sociological Review 26(1): 67–82.
• (2008) Jonsson, Jan O. & Carina Mood. Choice by contrast: How peers’ achievement affects educational choice in Swedish schools. Social Forces 87: 741–765.
• (2006) Mood, Carina. Take-up down under: Hits and misses of means-tested benefits in Australia. European Sociological Review 22(4): 443–458.
• (2004) Mood, Carina. Social influence effects on Social Assistance recipiency. Acta Sociologica 47(3): 235–251.

Chapters in edited volumes

• (2026) Hjalmarsson, Simon; Mood, Carina & Jan O Jonsson. “Ekonomiska resurser och fattigdom.” Chapter 1.1 in Boye, Katarina & Johan Westerman (Eds.) Välfärd och livsvillkor. Stockholm: Liber.
• (2026) Hjalmarsson, Simon; Mood, Carina & Jan O Jonsson. “Barns och ungas ekonomiska välfärd.” Chapter 1.2 in Boye, Katarina & Johan Westerman (Eds.) Välfärd och livsvillkor. Stockholm: Liber.
• (2026) Ljungström, Ida; Ljungström, Andreas & Carina Mood. “Hur mår Sverige? Självrapporterad hälsa och ohälsosymptom i Sverige 1968–2022.” Chapter 1.3 in Boye, Katarina & Johan Westerman (Eds.) Välfärd och livsvillkor. Stockholm: Liber.
• (2018) Mood, Carina. “Keeping up with the Smiths, Müllers, De Jongs, and Johanssons – The Economic Situation of Minority and Majority Youth.” Ch. 4 in Kalter et al. (Eds.) Growing up in Diverse Societies. Oxford University Press.
• (2018) Jonsson, Jan O. & Carina Mood. “Mental Well-being in Boys and Girls of Immigrant Background.” Ch. 14 in Kalter et al. (Eds.) Growing up in Diverse Societies. Oxford University Press.
• (2017) Jonsson, Jan O. & Carina Mood. “Sweden: Child Poverty during two recessions.” Chapter in Cantillon et al. (Eds.) Children of Austerity. Oxford University Press.
• (2014) Jonsson, Jan O. & Carina Mood. “Sociala konsekvenser av ekonomisk utsatthet.” Ch. 12 in Evertsson & Magnusson (Eds.) Ojämlikhetens dimensioner. Stockholm: Liber.
• (2012) Mood, Carina; Jonsson, Jan O. & Erik Bihagen. “Socioeconomic persistence across generations: The role of cognitive and non-cognitive processes.” In Ermisch, Jäntti & Smeeding (Eds.) From Parents to Children. New York: Russell Sage.
• (2011) Jonsson, Jan O. et al. “Occupations and Social Mobility.” Chapter 5 in Smeeding, Erikson & Jäntti (Eds.) The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. New York: Russell Sage.
• (2010) Jonsson, Jan O.; Mood, Carina & Erik Bihagen. “Fattigdomens förändring, utbredning och dynamik.” Chapter 3 in Social Rapport 2010. Socialstyrelsen.
• (2009) Mood, Carina. “Problems without ends: How rational choice theory escapes its explanatory task.” In Hamilton & Cherkaoui (Eds.) Raymond Boudon: A Life in Sociology. Oxford: The Bardwell Press.

Reports and popular science

• (2026) Ljungström, Andreas & Carina Mood. Förskola bland barn med svensk och utländsk bakgrund. Appendix to Governmental commission U2024:04.
• (2025) Mood, Carina. Fattigdomsmätning och fattigdomens utveckling. Chapter in Fattigdomsrapporten 2025. Sveriges Stadsmissioner.
• (2023) Jonsson, Jan O. & Carina Mood. Karriärer och barriärer: en ESO-rapport om skolgång och etablering för unga med utländsk bakgrund. ESO Rapport 2023:8.
• (2023) Jonsson, Jan O. & Carina Mood. Skilda världar – stor kartläggning av integrationen i Sverige. Forskning & Framsteg, June 2023.
• (2022) Mood, Carina & the IntegrateYouth team. “Integrating young migrants.” In Ukrainian refugees and the Nordics. Report to the Nordic Council of Ministers. NordForsk.
• (2019) Mood, Carina & Jan O Jonsson. Den nya fattigdomen. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond/Makadam förlag.
• (2018) Plenty, Stephanie et al. Hur går det för våra unga vuxna? IFFS Rapport 2018:1. [English version: How are our young adults doing? IFFS Report 2018:3]
• (2014) Mood, Carina & Jan O. Jonsson. Poverty and welfare among children and their families 1968–2010. IFFS Rapport 2014:2.
• (2013) Mood, Carina & Jan O. Jonsson. Ekonomisk utsatthet och välfärd bland barn och deras familjer 1968–2010. Report to Socialstyrelsen.