Social Science Research

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Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	226
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	222
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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	81
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	67
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	53
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	44
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	40
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	38
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	34
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	33
Regrets, she's had a few: Gender and regret of computer science and engineering degrees	33
When categories change value: How new educational resources reshape patterns of inequality	32
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	31
Toward a formal sociological model of partner search	31
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	26
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	24
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	24
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	23
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	20
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	20
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	19
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	18
Do geopolitical tensions increase negative attitudes toward minorities? Evidence from a natural experiment in India	18
State-level gender inequality and couples’ relative earnings following parenthood over four decades	18

Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	17
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	17
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	17
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	16
Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation	16
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Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	15
The evolution of demographic methods	14
Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	14
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	14
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	14
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	13
Childhood exposure to local wealth inequality, economic isolation in schools, and inter-class social ties in adulthood	13
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	13
The intergenerational mobility advantage of educators’ children: Capital embedded in occupations	13
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	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	12
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	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
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	12
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	12
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	12
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	11
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Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	11
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	11
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
Catalysts and buffers: How diversity and status in social networks shape attitudes towards inequality in contemporary societies	11
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	10
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	10
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	10
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	9
From Islamic religiosity to political participation. The role of social exclusion and origin-country ties	9
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	9
The role of assortative mating in marital infidelity: Insights from China	9
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	9
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	8
Corrigendum to “Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024” [Soc. Sci. Res. 136C (2026) 103347]	8
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	8
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Americans' views of religion in public life: The effect of three cultural models on attitudes toward religious and nonreligious groups	8
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	8
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	8
Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	8

Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	8
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	8
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	8
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	8
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	7
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	7
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	7
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	7
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	7
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	7
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	7
Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	7
The structural fit of personal gender beliefs: A cross-national analysis of its implications for life satisfaction	7
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	7
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	6
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	6
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	6
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	6
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
Educational assortative mating and changing patterns of parental financial investment in children, 1990–2024	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
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	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	5
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An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
Employment stability and social origin: Cumulative advantages in young adults’ homeownership and financial asset accumulation	5
Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
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Is my manager feeling threatened by me? Racial differences in content and activation of threat metastereotypes	5
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	5
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Horizontal stratification and educational homogamy in South Korea: Marriage patterns and preferences across elite- and non-elite university graduates	5
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The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	5
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	5
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	5
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	5
Compensation or concordance between warmth and competence: Examining social class stereotypes in English and Chinese languages using natural language	5
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
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A Schumpeter hotel? Surname status inequality and persistence in Sweden, 1880–2015	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
Socioeconomic divides in curricular pathways: Unpacking decision-making mechanisms and peer effects	5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	5
Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	5
Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes	4
Educational attainment, gender, and the change in access to schedule flexibility in Europe and the United States	4
Cross-cohort employment differences among U.S. mothers of young children: The role of nonparental childcare	4
The development of ICT skills in adolescence at the intersection of gender and family background	4
Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes	4
Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence	4
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts	4
Prone to wellness? Dispositional awe, religion/spirituality, and well-being among academic scientists	4
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany	4
Gender attitudes and the new cultural divide in Europe	4
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
Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups	4
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation	4
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Polluting student test performance: School-based evidence on the adverse effects of air pollution	4
Workers, jobs, and how they are matched: A decomposition of US labor market trends in educational mismatch	4
Unpacking the linkages between single parent households and early adolescent adjustment	4
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Gendered work and family trajectories: How do STEM graduates fare in the labor market?	4
The good, the bad, and the healthy: A factorial survey analysis of situational morality in consumption and healthcare	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
The gender system: A cross-national perspective	4
Gendered reporting of housework across relative spousal income	3
How routine tasks affect labor market inequalities between vocational and tertiary graduates over the career	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

Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death	3
Motherhood and access to top positions: The one percent glass-ceiling under Nordic family policies	3
Ethno-racial stratification in the mortgage market: The role of co-applicants	3
Online social class cues and employability: Experimental evidence from Germany	3
Electoral consequences of hate speech on social media: The case of the presidential election in Brazil	3
No quick fix: Experimental evidence on whether school safety information mitigates anti-black perceptions and preferences for schools	3
Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth?	3
Harvesting inequality: How gender and indigeneity shape farmworker health	3
Family background, romantic experience and college students’ realistic attitudes toward love in China	3
Between autonomy and interdependence: The changing parental role in adult children's family formation in China	3
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Flexible work arrangements, gender ideology, and housework time among dual-earner couples	3
The measurement of gender expression in survey research	3
Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline	3
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark	3
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2017	3
Race and leadership suitability in multiracial churches: An experimental exploration	3
Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health. Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests	3
Mobility patterns predict increasing polarization between neighborhoods	3
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis	3
On sociologically derived mathematics	3
Risk, return, and resonance: Symbolic considerations in everyday stock selection	3
Do sanctuary policies increase crime? Contrary evidence from a county-level investigation in the United States	3
Dual language immersion programs and their neighborhoods: Issues of program access and representation within Los Angeles Unified School District	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
Disaggregating the relationship between precarious employment and delayed marriage in Japan: Incorporating non-cohabiting partnerships	3
Gender convergence of cannabis use, dependence, and risk in the U.S.	3
Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis	3
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
Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 countries	3
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Divided over globalisation. Measuring the ideological divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians in Europe using a classification approach	3
Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment	3
Intergenerational income mobility in the United States: A racial-spatial account	3
Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US	3
Professional patterns: Occupation-Specific health behavior profiles	3
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The STEM leaky pipeline at labor market entry in Spain: The role of job competition and social origin	3
Removal notice to “Social welfare expansion and political support during economic slowdown: A panel data analysis of China, 2010–2018” [Soc. Sci. Res. 125 (2025) 103112]	2
Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?	2
Does a longer sexual resume affect marriage rates?	2
On religious ambiguity: Childhood family religiosity and adult flourishing in a twin sample	2
Why social norms matter in science: Determinants of misconduct in German-speaking Europe	2
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants’ national identification	2
Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States	2
Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period	2
Parental socioeconomic status and offspring neighborhood attainment: Pathways through middle adulthood	2
Heterogeneous effects of return migration on children's mental health and cognitive outcomes	2
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories	2
Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations	2
Methodological advances in quantitative social science: In celebration of the Social Science Research 50th anniversary	2
Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest	2
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50th anniversary	2
Job loss and births. A couple-level study of Norwegian plant closures	2
Sponsorship as a double-edged sword: Political contingency and mobility dynamics in the Chinese bureaucracy	2
A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling	2
The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage	2
Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: A longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany	2
State-level contexts and sexual minority occupational segregation in the United States: Assessing legal protections and public attitudes	2
Longitudinal exposure to neighborhood poverty and obesity risk in emerging adulthood	2
Social influence and network structure: How conspiracy theories spread on social media	2
Wealth mobility and inequality: A theoretical framework	2
The effect of parental separation on educational achievement: An instrumental variable analysis	2
Citizenship status and requirement, culture and immigrants’ attitudes toward local immigration: A study of 21 western and non-western societies	2
Inequality and the eroding base of liberal democracy	2
Could working less promote environmental concern? A cross-national intercohort analysis	2
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Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives	2
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Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps	2
The relative pay for foreign work: A novel evidence from home and host countries	2
The nature-nurture of academic achievement at the intersection between gender, family background, and school context	2
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data	2
Link dissolution outperforms link formation in promoting cooperation in social dilemmas	2
Variation and change in high school STEM opportunity to learn in the US: Is the organization of the STEM curriculum functional or conflict driven?	2
Men's decline and rising support for hostile sexism: A survey experiment from South Korea	2
The effect of parenthood on weekly physical activity in four OECD countries – A longitudinal analysis	2
Groups activate identities; identities activate behavior: How political homogeneity breeds extremism and apathy in American politics	2
Social and emotional skills and young people's expectations of social status and mobility	2
Unpacking the link between cousin marriage and women's paid work	2
The gender wealth gap in the United States: Trends and explanations	2
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Socioeconomic factors in the age-graded effect of incarceration on depressive symptoms in early adulthood	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
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
Elementary school discipline lowers students’ sense of belonging	2
Teacher's social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment	2
Stratification of poverty risk: The importance of social class in four European countries	2