Social Science Research

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Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	205
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	204
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	129
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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 fact	61
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	51
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	42
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	37
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	35
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	33
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	30
When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality	29
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	27
Regrets, she's had a few: Gender and regret of computer science and engineering degrees	27
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	25
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	24
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	24
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	22
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	22
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	19
State-level gender inequality and couples’ relative earnings following parenthood over four decades	19
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	18
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	18
Do geopolitical tensions increase negative attitudes toward minorities? Evidence from a natural experiment in India	18
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	16

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Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	16
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	16
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	16
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	16
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	16
The evolution of demographic methods	14
Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation	14
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	14
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	14
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	14
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	13
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	13
Childhood exposure to local wealth inequality, economic isolation in schools, and inter-class social ties in adulthood	13
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	13
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	12
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	12
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	12
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	12
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	12
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	12
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An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	11
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	11
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	10
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	10
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	10
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	10
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	9
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	9
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	9
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	9
The role of assortative mating in marital infidelity: Insights from China	9
Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	9
From Islamic religiosity to political participation. The role of social exclusion and origin-country ties	9
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The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	8
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	8
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Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	8

Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	8
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	7
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	7
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	7
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	7
The structural fit of personal gender beliefs: A cross-national analysis of its implications for life satisfaction	7
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	7
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	7
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	7
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	6
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	6
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	6
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	6
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	6
Intersecting inequalities in retirement trajectories under a privatized pension system: Gender, labor force status, and occupational prestige	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	6
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	6
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
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The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	5
Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
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An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	5
Compensation or concordance between warmth and competence: Examining social class stereotypes in English and Chinese languages using natural language	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
Gendered work and family trajectories: How do STEM graduates fare in the labor market?	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
Corrigendum to “The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019” [Soc. Sci. Res. (2025) Volume 132/103228]	5
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany	5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation	4
Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes	4
Divided over globalisation. Measuring the ideological divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians in Europe using a classification approach	4
Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 countries	4
The development of ICT skills in adolescence at the intersection of gender and family background	4
Educational attainment, gender, and the change in access to schedule flexibility in Europe and the United States	4
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence	4
Prone to wellness? Dispositional awe, religion/spirituality, and well-being among academic scientists	4
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Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health. Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests	4
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2017	4
Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes	4
Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups	4
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Cross-cohort employment differences among U.S. mothers of young children: The role of nonparental childcare	4
Global liberalism, emerging illiberalism, and human rights, 1980 to 2018	4
Monotonic market change: How contracting/expanding Protestant markets impact the founding of American Protestant international ministries	4
Ethno-racial stratification in the mortgage market: The role of co-applicants	4
Workers, jobs, and how they are matched: A decomposition of US labor market trends in educational mismatch	4
Gender attitudes and the new cultural divide in Europe	4
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Unpacking the linkages between single parent households and early adolescent adjustment	4
How does employees’ behavior change how we feel about their organization? Transfer of affective impressions between employees and organizations	3
Dual language immersion programs and their neighborhoods: Issues of program access and representation within Los Angeles Unified School District	3
The STEM leaky pipeline at labor market entry in Spain: The role of job competition and social origin	3
Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps	3
Race and leadership suitability in multiracial churches: An experimental exploration	3
On sociologically derived mathematics	3
Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations	3
Intergenerational income mobility in the United States: A racial-spatial account	3
Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment	3
Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties	3
Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline	3

The measurement of gender expression in survey research	3
Polluting student test performance: School-based evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution	3
Gendered reporting of housework across relative spousal income	3
Inequality begets inequality: Income inequality and socioeconomic achievement gradients across the United States	3
A civic bridge or a silo? Islam, religious affiliation, and civic engagement in rural Indonesia	3
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Flexible work arrangements, gender ideology, and housework time among dual-earner couples	3
Stratification of poverty risk: The importance of social class in four European countries	3
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data	3
Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines?	3
Harvesting inequality: How gender and indigeneity shape farmworker health	3
Do sanctuary policies increase crime? Contrary evidence from a county-level investigation in the United States	3
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis	3
How routine tasks affect labor market inequalities between vocational and tertiary graduates over the career	3
Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis	3
Disaggregating the relationship between precarious employment and delayed marriage in Japan: Incorporating non-cohabiting partnerships	3
The gender system: A cross-national perspective	3
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark	3
Between autonomy and interdependence: The changing parental role in adult children's family formation in China	3
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Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty	3
Online social class cues and employability: Experimental evidence from Germany	3
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Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth?	3
Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US	3
Electoral consequences of hate speech on social media: The case of the presidential election in Brazil	3
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China	3
Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death	3
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts	3
Family background, romantic experience and college students’ realistic attitudes toward love in China	3
Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy	3
Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States	2
How probability distributions felled the case for the beneficial effects of income inequality: and other adventures of probability distributions on the knowledge quest	2
Directions for improving the policy relevance of inequality research: Lessons from social origin–specific health disparities	2
Citizenship status and requirement, culture and immigrants’ attitudes toward local immigration: A study of 21 western and non-western societies	2
Socioeconomic factors in the age-graded effect of incarceration on depressive symptoms in early adulthood	2
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants’ national identification	2
The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage	2
Parental socioeconomic status and offspring neighborhood attainment: Pathways through middle adulthood	2
Text mining for social science – The state and the future of computational text analysis in sociology	2
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Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?	2
Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest	2
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50th anniversary	2
Unpacking the link between cousin marriage and women's paid work	2
The effect of parenthood on weekly physical activity in four OECD countries – A longitudinal analysis	2
Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives	2
Mobility patterns predict increasing polarization between neighborhoods	2
Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: A longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany	2
More than a side-hustle: Satisfaction with conventional and microtask work and the association with life satisfaction	2
Gender overeducation gap in the digital age: Can spatial flexibility through working from home close the gap?	2
Men's decline and rising support for hostile sexism: A survey experiment from South Korea	2
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories	2
Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period	2
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear	2
Social influence and network structure: How conspiracy theories spread on social media	2
Heterogeneous effects of return migration on children's mental health and cognitive outcomes	2
Why social norms matter in science: Determinants of misconduct in German-speaking Europe	2
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Inequality and the eroding base of liberal democracy	2
Could working less promote environmental concern? A cross-national intercohort analysis	2
A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling	2
The gender wealth gap in the United States: Trends and explanations	2
Political efficacy and fertility intentions: A survey experiment study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore	2
Stability of dyadic exchange: Experimental evidence for the impact of shared group membership	2
Teacher's social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment	2
Status, masculinity, and femininity at the intersection of age and gender	2
Economic inequalities in contemporary rural China: How does political capital matter?	2
On religious ambiguity: Childhood family religiosity and adult flourishing in a twin sample	2
Groups activate identities; identities activate behavior: How political homogeneity breeds extremism and apathy in American politics	2
Wealth mobility and inequality: A theoretical framework	2
Link dissolution outperforms link formation in promoting cooperation in social dilemmas	2
Methodological advances in quantitative social science: In celebration of the Social Science Research 50th anniversary	2
Social and emotional skills and young people's expectations of social status and mobility	2
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Sponsorship as a double-edged sword: Political contingency and mobility dynamics in the Chinese bureaucracy	2
The effect of parental separation on educational achievement: An instrumental variable analysis	2
Longitudinal exposure to neighborhood poverty and obesity risk in emerging adulthood	2
The nature-nurture of academic achievement at the intersection between gender, family background, and school context	2
The relative pay for foreign work: A novel evidence from home and host countries	2
Elementary school discipline lowers students’ sense of belonging	2