Stefano Cantalini is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA). He got his PhD in Economic Sociology and Labour Studies at the University of Milan, where he also worked as a Post-doc Fellow from 2018 to 2022. His main research interests regard the interrelationships between family dynamics and social inequalities. His research also focuses on family formation and fertility, social stratification, migration and gender inequalities.
Over the past decade fertility rates in Sweden have declined somewhat unexpectedly. This development has occurred in tandem with even greater fertility declines in the other Nordic countries. The projects explores why.