Social Science Research

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Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	196
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	195
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	125
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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
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	42
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	35
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	33
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	33
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	30
When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality	28
Regrets, she's had a few: Gender and regret of computer science and engineering degrees	28
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	28
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	27
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	27
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	25
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
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	23
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	23
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	21
Do geopolitical tensions increase negative attitudes toward minorities? Evidence from a natural experiment in India	21
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

Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	18
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Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	18
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	18
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	17
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	16
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	16
The evolution of demographic methods	16
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	16
Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation	15
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	15
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	15
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	14
Childhood exposure to local wealth inequality, economic isolation in schools, and inter-class social ties in adulthood	14
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	14
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	13
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	13
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	13
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	13
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	13
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	12
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	11
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	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
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Is educational mobility harmful for health?	11
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	10
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	10
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Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	10
The role of assortative mating in marital infidelity: Insights from China	10
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	10
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	10
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	9
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From Islamic religiosity to political participation. The role of social exclusion and origin-country ties	9
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9
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
Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	9

Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	8
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	8
The structural fit of personal gender beliefs: A cross-national analysis of its implications for life satisfaction	8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	8
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	7
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	7
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	7
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	7
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	7
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	7
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 think	6
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	6
Compensation or concordance between warmth and competence: Examining social class stereotypes in English and Chinese languages using natural language	6
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	6
Intersecting inequalities in retirement trajectories under a privatized pension system: Gender, labor force status, and occupational prestige	6
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	6
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	6
Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024	6
Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes	6
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
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Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups	5
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An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	5
Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
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Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes	4
Cross-cohort employment differences among U.S. mothers of young children: The role of nonparental childcare	4
Gendered work and family trajectories: How do STEM graduates fare in the labor market?	4
The development of ICT skills in adolescence at the intersection of gender and family background	4
Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence	4
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation	4
Ethno-racial stratification in the mortgage market: The role of co-applicants	4
Polluting student test performance: School-based evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution	4
Global liberalism, emerging illiberalism, and human rights, 1980 to 2018	4
Gender attitudes and the new cultural divide in Europe	4
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany	4
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Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes	4
The gender system: A cross-national perspective	4
Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health. Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests	4
Monotonic market change: How contracting/expanding Protestant markets impact the founding of American Protestant international ministries	4
Workers, jobs, and how they are matched: A decomposition of US labor market trends in educational mismatch	4
Educational attainment, gender, and the change in access to schedule flexibility in Europe and the United States	4
Unpacking the linkages between single parent households and early adolescent adjustment	4
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Corrigendum to “The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019” [Soc. Sci. Res. (2025) Volume 132/103228]	4
Bridging the gap between multilevel modeling and economic methods	4
Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 countries	4
Divided over globalisation. Measuring the ideological divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians in Europe using a classification approach	4
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Prone to wellness? Dispositional awe, religion/spirituality, and well-being among academic scientists	4
Flexible work arrangements, gender ideology, and housework time among dual-earner couples	3
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2017	3
Gendered reporting of housework across relative spousal income	3
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark	3
Dual language immersion programs and their neighborhoods: Issues of program access and representation within Los Angeles Unified School District	3
A civic bridge or a silo? Islam, religious affiliation, and civic engagement in rural Indonesia	3

Electoral consequences of hate speech on social media: The case of the presidential election in Brazil	3
Women who commit hate-motivated violence: Advancing a gendered understanding of hate crime	3
Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth?	3
Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis	3
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China	3
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Between autonomy and interdependence: The changing parental role in adult children's family formation in China	3
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts	3
How does employees’ behavior change how we feel about their organization? Transfer of affective impressions between employees and organizations	3
Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties	3
How routine tasks affect labor market inequalities between vocational and tertiary graduates over the career	3
On sociologically derived mathematics	3
Inequality begets inequality: Income inequality and socioeconomic achievement gradients across the United States	3
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis	3
Disaggregating the relationship between precarious employment and delayed marriage in Japan: Incorporating non-cohabiting partnerships	3
Intergenerational income mobility in the United States: A racial-spatial account	3
The measurement of gender expression in survey research	3
Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy	3
Do sanctuary policies increase crime? Contrary evidence from a county-level investigation in the United States	3
How should the government treat asylum seekers? The role of labour market vulnerability and migration in Europe	3
Taste-based gender discrimination in South Korea	3
Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline	3
Family background, romantic experience and college students’ realistic attitudes toward love in China	3
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Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US	3
Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death	3
Harvesting inequality: How gender and indigeneity shape farmworker health	3
The STEM leaky pipeline at labor market entry in Spain: The role of job competition and social origin	3
Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment	3
Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines?	3
Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty	3
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Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants’ national identification	2
Parental socioeconomic status and offspring neighborhood attainment: Pathways through middle adulthood	2
Social and emotional skills and young people's expectations of social status and mobility	2
The nature-nurture of academic achievement at the intersection between gender, family background, and school context	2
Methodological advances in quantitative social science: In celebration of the Social Science Research 50th anniversary	2
Mobility patterns predict increasing polarization between neighborhoods	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
Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest	2
Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach	2
Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations	2
Why social norms matter in science: Determinants of misconduct in German-speaking Europe	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
Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives	2
The gender wealth gap in the United States: Trends and explanations	2
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The relative pay for foreign work: A novel evidence from home and host countries	2
The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage	2
Sponsorship as a double-edged sword: Political contingency and mobility dynamics in the Chinese bureaucracy	2
Social influence and network structure: How conspiracy theories spread on social media	2
Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period	2
Online social class cues and employability: Experimental evidence from Germany	2
Link dissolution outperforms link formation in promoting cooperation in social dilemmas	2
A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling	2
Could working less promote environmental concern? A cross-national intercohort analysis	2
Stratification of poverty risk: The importance of social class in four European countries	2
Wealth mobility and inequality: A theoretical framework	2
Race and leadership suitability in multiracial churches: An experimental exploration	2
Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps	2
Inequality and the eroding base of liberal democracy	2
More than a side-hustle: Satisfaction with conventional and microtask work and the association with life satisfaction	2
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear	2
The effect of parenthood on weekly physical activity in four OECD countries – A longitudinal analysis	2
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories	2
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50th anniversary	2
Groups activate identities; identities activate behavior: How political homogeneity breeds extremism and apathy in American politics	2
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Unpacking the link between cousin marriage and women's paid work	2
Teacher's social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment	2
Elementary school discipline lowers students’ sense of belonging	2
Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: A longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany	2
Political efficacy and fertility intentions: A survey experiment study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore	2
Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States	2
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data	2
Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?	2
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The effect of parental separation on educational achievement: An instrumental variable analysis	2
State-level contexts and sexual minority occupational segregation in the United States: Assessing legal protections and public attitudes	2
Heterogeneous effects of return migration on children's mental health and cognitive outcomes	2
Socioeconomic factors in the age-graded effect of incarceration on depressive symptoms in early adulthood	2
Longitudinal exposure to neighborhood poverty and obesity risk in emerging adulthood	2