OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Sociological Review is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The female-breadwinner well-being ‘penalty’: differences by men’s (un)employment and country	54
Early Retirement and Social Class: A Health-Giving Choice for All?	47
The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany	35
What (wo)men want? Evidence from a factorial survey on preferred work hours in couples after childbirth	34
The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden	25
Pathways to prosocial leadership: an online experiment on the effects of external subsidies and the relative price of giving	24
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries	24
Are female-dominated occupations a secure option? Occupational gender segregation, accompanied occupational characteristics, and the risk of becoming unemployed	23
Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: evidence from Swedish register data	23
Changing flux, persisting barriers: assessing the career mobility regime changes in France	22
Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media	21
Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland	20
Where DESO Disappears: Spatial Inequality and Social Stratification at Labour Market Entry	20
What Drives Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Online? A Novel Approach Using Twitter	20
Not all wealth is the same: types and levels of wealth and children’s university enrolment	19
Two faces of benefit generosity: comparing justice preferences in the access to and level of welfare benefits	18
Erratum to: Socio-Economic Family Background and Adult Children’s Health in Germany: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission of Education	18
Rebel without a Cause: The Effects of Social Origins and Disposable Income on Rule Violations	17
Linked generations: child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ mental well-being	16
Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market	16
Maternal Stress and Pregnancy Outcomes Evidence from a Natural Experiment: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings	16
Grading Practices and the Social Gradient in GPA: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Sweden	16
Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies	16
Aleatoric governance: using lotteries to break the iron law of oligarchy	16
Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France	16

Correction to: Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research	15
Manager’s gender, supervisory style, and employee’s perception of the demanding work climate	14
Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents	14
Family Background, Educational Qualifications, and Labour Market Attainment: Evidence from Danish Siblings	14
Studying Youth’ Group Identities, Intergroup Relations, and Friendship Networks: The Friendship and Identity in School Data	14
Taxed fairly? How differences in perception shape attitudes towards progressive taxation	13
Do refugee children impair the academic performance of native children in the school? Informative null results from Danish Register Data	13
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France	13
The polarization of real estate ownership and increasing wealth inequality in Spain	13
Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion	13
At Which Age is Education the Great Equalizer? A Causal Mediation Analysis of the (In-)Direct Effects of Social Origin over the Life Course	12
Information intervention on long-term earnings prospects and the gender gap in major choice	12
Correction to: Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	12
Socioeconomic Roots of Climate Change Denial and Uncertainty among the European Population	12
Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK	12
Who perceives lower wages for women to be fair? How perceptions of the fairness of men’s and women’s wages vary by firm and workplace characteristics	11
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants	11
The later the better? A novel approach to estimating the effect of school starting age on ADHD and academic skills	11
Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Research Meets Household Panel Surveys: Research Potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel and Its Boost Sample of SGM Households	11
Does Family Economic Strain Reduce Child Educational Achievement? A Longitudinal Assessment Using the Great Recession in Ireland	10
Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate	10
Mapping Changes in Attitudes towards Gays and Lesbians in Europe: An Application of Diffusion Theory	10
Control variable selection in applied quantitative sociology: a critical review	10
Does within-school between-class ability grouping harm the educational outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged children? International evidence	10
Does forming a nuclear family increase religiosity? Longitudinal evidence from the British Household Panel Survey	10
Cross-national variation in the skills trap: illuminating the heterogeneous economic returns to high cognitive skills	10
Racial bias in media coverage: accounting for structural position and public interest	10
Uncovering hidden opinions: social norms and the expression of xenophobic attitudes	9
The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain	9
Escaping one’s disadvantage? Neighbourhoods, socioeconomic origin and children’s adult life outcomes	9
Swiss Job Market Monitor: A Rich Source of Demand-Side Micro Data of the Labour Market	9
Correction to: A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	9
National High-Stakes Testing, Gender, and School Stress in Europe: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis	9
Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation	9
Not in a Class of One’s Own: Social Origin Differentials in Applying to Gender-(A)Typical Fields of Study across the Educational Hierarchy	8
The gendered effects of COVID-19 on well-being: a household perspective	8
Women’s aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice	8
Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field: behavioural evidence from Switzerland	8
Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany	8
A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	8
Social inequality in admission chances for prestigious higher education programs in Germany: do application patterns matter?	8
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations	8
Technological change, training, and within-firm wage inequality in Germany	7
Integration of Recently Arrived Underage Refugees: Research Potential of the Study ReGES—Refugees in the German Educational System	7
Are Women in Hypogamous Unions More Depressed? A Cross-National Comparison among the Highly Educated	7
Group boundaries in the Netherlands: how religion and ethnicity matter for social integration	7
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom	7
The role of peers’ perceptions in ethnic self-identification	7
Does information reduce interpersonal violence? Evidence from prisons	7
Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment	7

Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s	7
Collective Action and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Case of the Panama Papers Protest in Iceland	7
Populist partner: the influence of partner characteristics on populist radical right voting	7
Couples’ Life Courses and Women’s Income in Later Life: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Linked Lives in Germany	6
Correction to: Discrimination driven by variation in social and economic conservatism: evidence from a nationwide field experiment	6
Participation in formal adult education and family life—a gendered story	6
Heterogeneity in parental time with children: trends by gender and education between 1961 and 2012 across 20 countries	6
Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US	6
Gender, Unemployment, and Subjective Well-Being: Why Do Women Suffer Less from Unemployment than Men?	6
Detraditionalization, mental illness reports, and mental health professional care use in Europe	6
Grading in Hungarian Primary Schools: Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination against Roma Students	6
The air pollution disadvantage of immigrants in Germany: partly a matter of urbanity	6
With a Little Help from My Peer Clique: Mitigating the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty	6
A distaste for insecurity: job preferences of young people in the transition to adulthood	6
Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from a Cross-National Harmonized Field Experiment	6
(Mis)Matched College Aspirations and Expectations: The Role of Social Background and Admission Barriers	6
Correction to: The end of the golden age: on growing challenges for male workers and their partners to secure a family income	6
Origins of attainment: do brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap?	6
Proximity to refugee accommodations does not affect locals’ attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Germany	5
Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments	5
Correction to: Do women evaluate their lower earnings still to be fair? Findings on the contented female worker paradox examining the role of occupational contexts in 27 European countries	5
A big (male) fish in a small pond? The gendered effect of relative ability on STEM aspirations under stereotype threat	5
Environmental Inequality in Four European Cities: A Study Combining Household Survey and Geo-Referenced Data	5
Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective	5
Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by Muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	5
Correction to: Young adults’ labour market transitions and intergenerational support in Germany	5
Correction to: Following in the parents’ footsteps? Using sibling data to analyse the intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantage in Scotland	5
Determinants of ethnic harassment among first- and second-generation immigrants in Europe	5
Student ICT resources and intergenerational transmission of educational inequality: testing implications of a reproduction and mobility perspective	5
How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	5
Correction to: Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany	5
Ethnoreligious diversity and state-building: evidence from Pakistan’s tribal areas	5
Educational Selectivity and Immigrants’ Labour Market Performance in Europe	5
When a door closes, who can access the window? Second chance alternatives for higher education as an institutionalized ‘compensatory advantage’ mechanism	5
Role of Cohort Size in Trends in Class and Occupational Returns to Education at First Job: The Case of Japan	4
Masked by the mean: immigrants in school and differential effects on student achievements	4
A liberalizing effect of happiness? The impact of improvements and deteriorations in different dimensions of subjective well-being on concerns about immigration	4
Does the Local Presence of Asylum Seekers Affect Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers? Results from a Natural Experiment	4
Response to: ‘Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality’: a comment on the formal model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger	4
Unstable employment careers and (quasi-)completed fertility: evidence from the labour market deregulation in Italy	4
Newcomers’ self-assessed visibility and their perceptions of discrimination. The case of Turks and Syrians in Germany	4
Social media and hiring: a survey experiment on discrimination based on online social class cues	4
Double standards? Co-authorship and gender bias in early-stage academic evaluations	4
Wage Differences between Atypical and Standard Workers in European Countries: Moving beyond Average Effects	4
Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: a combined twin and adoption study	4
Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019	4
Children left behind. New evidence on the (adverse) impact of grade retention on educational careers	4
Vocational education, general education, and on-the-job learning over the life cycle	4
Stratifying cities: the effect of outdoor recreation areas on children’s well-being	4
Cohort changes in the association between parental divorce and children’s education: A long-term perspective on the institutionalization hypothesis	4
Does it matter where you’re from? Geographical variation in social mobility in Britain	4
Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: evidence from Sweden	4
Cross-Class Embeddedness through Family Ties and Support for Income Redistribution	3
Correction to: Explaining Ethnic Violence: On the Relevance of Geographic, Social, Economic, and Political Factors in Hate Crimes on Refugees	3
Who Stays Involved? A Longitudinal Study on Adolescents’ Participation in Voluntary Associations in Germany	3
Transformed ‘postmodern’ life courses? Continuity and change in young adults’ labour market trajectories in Norway	3
Do parents suffer too? Children’s unemployment and their parents’ mental health in 12 European countries	3
Cultural capital, network resources, and occupational attainment: a panel study on the intragenerational conversion of cultural resources	3
Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process	3
Corrigendum to: Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s	3
Succeeding without belonging? A double comparison of migrants’ socio-economic attainment and national belonging across origin and residence countries	3
How the educational level of confidants impacts our political attitudes?	3
Exploring integration and migration dynamics: the research potentials of a large-scale longitudinal household study of refugees in Germany	3
Timing of citizenship acquisition and immigrants’ children educational outcomes: a family fixed-effects approach	3
Correction to: How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	3
Do Grandfathers Matter for Occupational and Earnings Attainment? Evidence from Swedish Register Data	3
Kinship, heritage, and ethnic choice: ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland	3
Fairness of earnings in Europe: the consequences of unfair under- and overreward for life satisfaction	3
The Influx of Refugees and Temporal Change in Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers: A Cross-National Perspective	3
Does Your Class Give More than a Hint of Your Lifetime Earnings?: Assessing Indicators for Lifetime Earnings Over the Life Course for Sweden	3
Children’s aspirations, their perceptions of parental aspirations, and parents’ factual aspirations—gaining insights into a complex world of interdependencies	3