Social Science Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Science Research is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control131
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election127
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility89
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts46
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Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices35
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions34
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context33
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients33
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries32
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity30
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries24
Who influences lower-status individuals more: People of higher-status outgroups or people of their lower-status ingroup? Examining the difference between matters of opinion and matters of fact22
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily22
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences21
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children21
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?21
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations21
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness20
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process20
A path towards citizenship: The effects of early college high schools on criminal convictions and voting20
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples20
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–201920
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe19
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment19
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century18
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Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom18
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income18
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–201717
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach17
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis17
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–201517
The evolution of demographic methods16
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?15
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia15
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries14
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions14
Significant others? Social groups, income expectations, and redistributive preferences13
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism13
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?13
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families13
Is educational mobility harmful for health?13
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation12
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–201812
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis12
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged12
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career11
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality11
Why do some occupations offer more part-time work than others? Reciprocal dynamics in occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany, 1976–201011
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model11
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses10
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health10
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Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States10
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts10
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?10
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China9
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States9
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment9
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data9
Expectations of trustworthiness in cross-status interactions9
The unequal consequences of family structures for infant health9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future9
Reflected appraisals across multiple reference groups: Discrepancies in self and individual delinquency9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools9
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Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 20188
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households8
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research8
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating8
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness7
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–20187
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach7
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world7
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-197
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort7
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning7
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity7
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers7
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]7
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Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models6
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment6
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety6
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–20196
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’6
Black-White disparities in women’s physical health: The role of socioeconomic status and racism-related stressors6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence6
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization6
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Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion6
Understanding the role of religion in shaping cross-national and domestic attitudes and interest in abortion, homosexuality, and pornography using traditional and Google search data5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–20195
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The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–20145
Unpacking the linkages between single parent households and early adolescent adjustment5
Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch5
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Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups5
Opportunity and change in occupational assortative mating5
Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market5
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Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women5
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany5
Gender attitudes and the new cultural divide in Europe5
Field-specific cultural capital and persistence in college majors5
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Women who commit hate-motivated violence: Advancing a gendered understanding of hate crime4
Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health. Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests4
Monotonic market change: How contracting/expanding Protestant markets impact the founding of American Protestant international ministries4
The development of ICT skills in adolescence at the intersection of gender and family background4
Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence4
Divided over globalisation. Measuring the ideological divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians in Europe using a classification approach4
Taste-based gender discrimination in South Korea4
Disaggregating the relationship between precarious employment and delayed marriage in Japan: Incorporating non-cohabiting partnerships4
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts4
The STEM leaky pipeline at labor market entry in Spain: The role of job competition and social origin4
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Bridging the gap between multilevel modeling and economic methods4
Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes4
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–20174
Flexible work arrangements, gender ideology, and housework time among dual-earner couples4
Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis4
Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death4
Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 countries4
Prone to wellness? Dispositional awe, religion/spirituality, and well-being among academic scientists4
Global liberalism, emerging illiberalism, and human rights, 1980 to 20184
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation4
Meaning matters: Measuring the mental illness identity4
Ethno-racial stratification in the mortgage market: The role of co-applicants4
How should the government treat asylum seekers? The role of labour market vulnerability and migration in Europe4
Early adverse childhood experiences and exclusionary discipline in high school3
Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave3
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Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment3
The measurement of gender expression in survey research3
Explaining wage differentials by field of study among higher education graduates: Evidence from a large-scale survey of adult skills3
How routine tasks affect labor market inequalities between vocational and tertiary graduates over the career3
Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties3
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark3
Do high childcare costs and low access to Head Start and childcare subsidies limit mothers’ employment? A state-level analysis3
Are conservatives more charitable than liberals in the U.S.? A meta-analysis of political ideology and charitable giving3
Do sanctuary policies increase crime? Contrary evidence from a county-level investigation in the United States3
Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy3
“Children's time use in immigrant and native families: National evidence from Australia”3
Inequality begets inequality: Income inequality and socioeconomic achievement gradients across the United States3
Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty3
A civic bridge or a silo? Islam, religious affiliation, and civic engagement in rural Indonesia3
Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth?3
Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines?3
Intergenerational income mobility in the United States: A racial-spatial account3
How does employees’ behavior change how we feel about their organization? Transfer of affective impressions between employees and organizations3
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Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline3
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50th anniversary2
Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States2
Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?2
Heterogeneous effects of return migration on children's mental health and cognitive outcomes2
The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage2
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Stratification of poverty risk: The importance of social class in four European countries2
Unpacking the link between cousin marriage and women's paid work2
Proximate sources of growth in neighborhood income segregation: Class-selective migration versus in situ change2
Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach2
Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest2
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Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US2
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Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period2
Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: A longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany2
Could working less promote environmental concern? A cross-national intercohort analysis2
Do academic ability and social background influence each other in shaping educational attainment? The case of the transition to secondary education in Germany2
Political efficacy and fertility intentions: A survey experiment study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore2
Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives2
On sociologically derived mathematics2
Women's employment and Children's education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal2
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear2
Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations2
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China2
The nature-nurture of academic achievement at the intersection between gender, family background, and school context2
Inequality and the eroding base of liberal democracy2
Sponsorship as a double-edged sword: Political contingency and mobility dynamics in the Chinese bureaucracy2
Methodological advances in quantitative social science: In celebration of the Social Science Research 50th anniversary2
Stability of dyadic exchange: Experimental evidence for the impact of shared group membership2
Socioeconomic factors in the age-graded effect of incarceration on depressive symptoms in early adulthood2
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data2
The effect of parental separation on educational achievement: An instrumental variable analysis2
Race and leadership suitability in multiracial churches: An experimental exploration2
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories2
Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps2
A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling2
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis2
Parental socioeconomic status and offspring neighborhood attainment: Pathways through middle adulthood2
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