Social Science Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Social Science Research is 1. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions107
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control101
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries71
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity37
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 fact32
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election31
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries30
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility30
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children29
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily28
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts28
Editorial Board27
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices27
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients23
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context22
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe20
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations20
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?20
Subjective health in adolescence: Comparing the reliability of contemporaneous, retrospective, and proxy reports of overall health19
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences19
A path towards citizenship: The effects of early college high schools on criminal convictions and voting19
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness18
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples18
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process18
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom17
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis17
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment17
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–201516
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach16
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century16
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income16
The evolution of demographic methods15
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions15
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Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation14
Significant others? Social groups, income expectations, and redistributive preferences14
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism14
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged14
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?14
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia13
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, 1976–201012
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?12
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis12
The achilles heel of democracy? A macro cross-national assessment of the correlates of state legitimacy12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science12
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?12
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States11
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses10
Reflected appraisals across multiple reference groups: Discrepancies in self and individual delinquency10
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality10
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health10
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts10
Under the influence of our older brother and sister: The association between sibling gender configuration and STEM degrees10
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Expectations of trustworthiness in cross-status interactions9
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment9
The unequal consequences of family structures for infant health9
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data9
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools9
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China9
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Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households8
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 20188
Later timing but informed decision? Delayed postgraduate attainment and U.S. college graduates’ earnings8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating7
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment7
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces7
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions7
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world7
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning7
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research7
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness7
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’6
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think6
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach6
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion6
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects6
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort6
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–20186
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health6
Black-White disparities in women’s physical health: The role of socioeconomic status and racism-related stressors6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts6
Cross-national attitudes about paid parental leave offerings for fathers6
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity6
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-196
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]6
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–20195
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch5
Race, gender, and power in Asian American interracial marriages5
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Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion5
Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women5
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An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization5
Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety5
Field-specific cultural capital and persistence in college majors5
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Prone to wellness? Dispositional awe, religion/spirituality, and well-being among academic scientists4
Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence4
Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan4
Migration after union dissolution in the United States: The role of non-resident family4
Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups4
Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes4
How should the government treat asylum seekers? The role of labour market vulnerability and migration in Europe4
Ethno-racial stratification in the mortgage market: The role of co-applicants4
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Monotonic market change: How contracting/expanding Protestant markets impact the founding of American Protestant international ministries4
Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes4
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany4
Opportunity and change in occupational assortative mating4
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–20144
Meaning matters: Measuring the mental illness identity4
Global liberalism, emerging illiberalism, and human rights, 1980 to 20184
Divided over globalisation. Measuring the ideological divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians in Europe using a classification approach4
Taste-based gender discrimination in South Korea4
Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 countries4
Unpacking the linkages between single parent households and early adolescent adjustment4
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation4
Understanding the role of religion in shaping cross-national and domestic attitudes and interest in abortion, homosexuality, and pornography using traditional and Google search data4
Bridging the gap between multilevel modeling and economic methods4
Gender attitudes and the new cultural divide in Europe4
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–20174
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts4
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What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis3
Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth?3
Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy3
How does employees’ behavior change how we feel about their organization? Transfer of affective impressions between employees and organizations3
Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties3
The STEM leaky pipeline at labor market entry in Spain: The role of job competition and social origin3
Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death3
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Intergenerational income mobility in the United States: A racial-spatial account3
“Children's time use in immigrant and native families: National evidence from Australia”3
Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty3
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark3
A civic bridge or a silo? Islam, religious affiliation, and civic engagement in rural Indonesia3
Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis3
Neighborhood predictors of the gendered structure of non-lethal violent interactions3
The measurement of gender expression in survey research3
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China3
Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US3
Do high childcare costs and low access to Head Start and childcare subsidies limit mothers’ employment? A state-level analysis3
Explaining wage differentials by field of study among higher education graduates: Evidence from a large-scale survey of adult skills3
Early adverse childhood experiences and exclusionary discipline in high school3
Disaggregating the relationship between precarious employment and delayed marriage in Japan: Incorporating non-cohabiting partnerships3
Inequality begets inequality: Income inequality and socioeconomic achievement gradients across the United States3
Women who commit hate-motivated violence: Advancing a gendered understanding of hate crime3
Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave3
Stratification of poverty risk: The importance of social class in four European countries2
Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States2
The nature-nurture of academic achievement at the intersection between gender, family background, and school context2
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories2
Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines?2
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear2
Are conservatives more charitable than liberals in the U.S.? A meta-analysis of political ideology and charitable giving2
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Proximate sources of growth in neighborhood income segregation: Class-selective migration versus in situ change2
Women's employment and Children's education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal2
Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives2
A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling2
Does employer discrimination contribute to the subordinate labor market inclusion of individuals of a foreign background?2
Does perceived social mobility shape attitudes toward government and family educational investment?2
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data2
Inequality and the eroding base of liberal democracy2
On sociologically derived mathematics2
The effect of parental separation on educational achievement: An instrumental variable analysis2
Do sanctuary policies increase crime? Contrary evidence from a county-level investigation in the United States2
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Political efficacy and fertility intentions: A survey experiment study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore2
Do academic ability and social background influence each other in shaping educational attainment? The case of the transition to secondary education in Germany2
Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations2
Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps2
Unpacking the link between cousin marriage and women's paid work2
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The rural happiness paradox in developed countries2
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The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage2
Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment2
Socioeconomic factors in the age-graded effect of incarceration on depressive symptoms in early adulthood2
Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest2
Peer effects of friend and extracurricular activity networks on students’ academic performance2
Heterogeneous effects of return migration on children's mental health and cognitive outcomes1
Methodological advances in quantitative social science: In celebration of the Social Science Research 50th anniversary1
Modelling ambivalent triads in family research1
Sponsorship as a double-edged sword: Political contingency and mobility dynamics in the Chinese bureaucracy1
Gender overeducation gap in the digital age: Can spatial flexibility through working from home close the gap?1
Economic inequalities in contemporary rural China: How does political capital matter?1
Cohabitation dissolution and psychological distress among young adults: The role of parenthood and gender1
Field of study, political attitudes, and support for the radical right in Sweden and Europe1
Text mining for social science – The state and the future of computational text analysis in sociology1
More than a side-hustle: Satisfaction with conventional and microtask work and the association with life satisfaction1
Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period1
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants’ national identification1
Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?1
Could working less promote environmental concern? A cross-national intercohort analysis1
Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: A longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany1
Mothers, fathers and the intergenerational transmission of gender ideology1
Structure and influence in the spread of collective violence1
All in the family? Understanding differences in the kin-centricity of older US adults’ core discussion networks from classic age, period, and cohort table estimates1
Explaining immigrants’ social distance towards natives: A multilevel mediation approach across immigrant groups in Germany1
On religious ambiguity: Childhood family religiosity and adult flourishing in a twin sample1
Does a longer sexual resume affect marriage rates?1
Peace through superior firepower: Belief in supernatural evil and attitudes toward gun policy in the United States1
Teacher's social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment1
Tracing the Gender Confidence Gap in Computing: A Cross-National Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Assessed Technological Ability1
The gender wealth gap in the United States: Trends and explanations1
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Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach1
The relative pay for foreign work: A novel evidence from home and host countries1
Stability of dyadic exchange: Experimental evidence for the impact of shared group membership1
The role of romantic relationships for sexual minority young adults’ depressive symptoms: Does relationship type matter?1
Unhealthy parenting strategies: Situational (Dis-)Incentives, Machiavellian personality, and their interaction on misuse of ADHD medication for healthy children1
First-generation inequality and college integration1
Men's decline and rising support for hostile sexism: A survey experiment from South Korea1
Status, masculinity, and femininity at the intersection of age and gender1
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50th anniversary1
Longitudinal exposure to neighborhood poverty and obesity risk in emerging adulthood1
The effects of being racially, ethnically, & socioeconomically different from peers1
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