Social Science Research

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Editorial Board	158
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	154
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices	103
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	56
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	47
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	44
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	39
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	37
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	37
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	31
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	28
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	26
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	26
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	25
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	25
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	25
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	24
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	24
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	24
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	24
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	22
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	22
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	21
The evolution of demographic methods	18
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	18

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Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	17
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	17
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	17
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	17
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	16
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	16
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	16
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	16
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	15
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	14
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	14
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	14
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	14
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	14
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	14
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	14
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	13
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis	13
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?	12
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	12
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
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	11
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, 1976–2010	11
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	10
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	10
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	10
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	10
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	10
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	9
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Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	9
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	9
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies	9
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How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	9
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	9
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	8
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	8

Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	8
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	8
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness	8
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	7
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	7
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	7
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]	7
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	7
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	7
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	7
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	6
Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality	6
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Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
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When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	6
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Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	6
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	6
An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	6
Bridging the gap between multilevel modeling and economic methods	5
Global liberalism, emerging illiberalism, and human rights, 1980 to 2018	5
Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence	5
Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan	5
Unpacking the linkages between single parent households and early adolescent adjustment	5
Field-specific cultural capital and persistence in college majors	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany	5
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation	5
Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes	5
Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
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Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups	5
The development of ICT skills in adolescence at the intersection of gender and family background	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
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Gender attitudes and the new cultural divide in Europe	5
Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women	5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5
Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 countries	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
Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health. Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests	4
How routine tasks affect labor market inequalities between vocational and tertiary graduates over the career	4
Disaggregating the relationship between precarious employment and delayed marriage in Japan: Incorporating non-cohabiting partnerships	4
Divided over globalisation. Measuring the ideological divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians in Europe using a classification approach	4
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2017	4
Taste-based gender discrimination in South Korea	4
How should the government treat asylum seekers? The role of labour market vulnerability and migration in Europe	4
The STEM leaky pipeline at labor market entry in Spain: The role of job competition and social origin	4
Women who commit hate-motivated violence: Advancing a gendered understanding of hate crime	4
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Prone to wellness? Dispositional awe, religion/spirituality, and well-being among academic scientists	4
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts	4
Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline	4
Flexible work arrangements, gender ideology, and housework time among dual-earner couples	4
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The measurement of gender expression in survey research	3
Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death	3
Early adverse childhood experiences and exclusionary discipline in high school	3
Do high childcare costs and low access to Head Start and childcare subsidies limit mothers’ employment? A state-level analysis	3
How does employees’ behavior change how we feel about their organization? Transfer of affective impressions between employees and organizations	3
Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US	3

Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China	3
Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth?	3
Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty	3
“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 States	3
Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy	3
Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis	3
On sociologically derived mathematics	3
Intergenerational income mobility in the United States: A racial-spatial account	3
Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines?	3
Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment	3
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark	3
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Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties	3
A civic bridge or a silo? Islam, religious affiliation, and civic engagement in rural Indonesia	3
Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave	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
Unpacking the link between cousin marriage and women's paid work	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
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50th anniversary	2
Parental socioeconomic status and offspring neighborhood attainment: Pathways through middle adulthood	2
The gender wealth gap in the United States: Trends and explanations	2
The effect of parental separation on educational achievement: An instrumental variable analysis	2
The relative pay for foreign work: A novel evidence from home and host countries	2
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories	2
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants’ national identification	2
Socioeconomic factors in the age-graded effect of incarceration on depressive symptoms in early adulthood	2
Methodological advances in quantitative social science: In celebration of the Social Science Research 50th anniversary	2
Political efficacy and fertility intentions: A survey experiment study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore	2
Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest	2
A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling	2
Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States	2
Sponsorship as a double-edged sword: Political contingency and mobility dynamics in the Chinese bureaucracy	2
Citizenship status and requirement, culture and immigrants’ attitudes toward local immigration: A study of 21 western and non-western societies	2
Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach	2
More than a side-hustle: Satisfaction with conventional and microtask work and the association with life satisfaction	2
Groups activate identities; identities activate behavior: How political homogeneity breeds extremism and apathy in American politics	2
Teacher's social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment	2
Women's employment and Children's education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal	2
Men's decline and rising support for hostile sexism: A survey experiment from South Korea	2
Inequality and the eroding base of liberal democracy	2
The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage	2
Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives	2
Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: A longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany	2
Race and leadership suitability in multiracial churches: An experimental exploration	2
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data	2
Proximate sources of growth in neighborhood income segregation: Class-selective migration versus in situ change	2
Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps	2
Stability of dyadic exchange: Experimental evidence for the impact of shared group membership	2
On religious ambiguity: Childhood family religiosity and adult flourishing in a twin sample	2
Could working less promote environmental concern? A cross-national intercohort analysis	2
Longitudinal exposure to neighborhood poverty and obesity risk in emerging adulthood	2
Do academic ability and social background influence each other in shaping educational attainment? The case of the transition to secondary education in Germany	2
Heterogeneous effects of return migration on children's mental health and cognitive outcomes	2
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear	2
Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period	2
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Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?	2
Stratification of poverty risk: The importance of social class in four European countries	2
Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations	2
The nature-nurture of academic achievement at the intersection between gender, family background, and school context	2