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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden	55
Early Retirement and Social Class: A Health-Giving Choice for All?	46
What (wo)men want? Evidence from a factorial survey on preferred work hours in couples after childbirth	37
Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction	35
The female-breadwinner well-being ‘penalty’: differences by men’s (un)employment and country	30
The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany	27
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries	27
Changing flux, persisting barriers: assessing the career mobility regime changes in France	25
Shouldering childhood: early behavioural traits and discrimination concerns	25
Fragmentation or integration? Ethnic diversity and the structural cohesion of adolescent social networks	23
Are female-dominated occupations a secure option? Occupational gender segregation, accompanied occupational characteristics, and the risk of becoming unemployed	22
Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media	21
Increasingly polarized? Inequality, prosperity, and perceived socioeconomic conflict in advanced economies (1987–2019)	20
Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: evidence from Swedish register data	19
Pathways to prosocial leadership: an online experiment on the effects of external subsidies and the relative price of giving	18
Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France	18
Where DESO Disappears: Spatial Inequality and Social Stratification at Labour Market Entry	18
Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market	16
Not all wealth is the same: types and levels of wealth and children’s university enrolment	16
Two faces of benefit generosity: comparing justice preferences in the access to and level of welfare benefits	16
Linked generations: child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ mental well-being	15
Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies	15
Support for everyone or selection of some? Self-selection and assignment into a large-scale refugee mentoring program in Germany	15
Taxed fairly? How differences in perception shape attitudes towards progressive taxation	14
Correction to: Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research	14

Family Background, Educational Qualifications, and Labour Market Attainment: Evidence from Danish Siblings	14
Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland	14
Do refugee children impair the academic performance of native children in the school? Informative null results from Danish Register Data	14
Manager’s gender, supervisory style, and employee’s perception of the demanding work climate	14
Aleatoric governance: using lotteries to break the iron law of oligarchy	14
Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion	13
The long-term effects of childhood residential mobility on social capital	13
Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents	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	12
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France	12
Correction to: Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	12
The later the better? A novel approach to estimating the effect of school starting age on ADHD and academic skills	12
The polarization of real estate ownership and increasing wealth inequality in Spain	12
Changing regional university availability and inequality of educational opportunity in Japan	12
Information intervention on long-term earnings prospects and the gender gap in major choice	12
Do African Americans overreport or underreport their experiences of discrimination? Evidence from list experiments	11
Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK	11
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants	11
Does within-school between-class ability grouping harm the educational outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged children? International evidence	11
The Generations and Gender Survey: a cross-national longitudinal resource	11
Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate	10
Racial bias in media coverage: accounting for structural position and public interest	10
Control variable selection in applied quantitative sociology: a critical review	10
The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain	10
Cross-national variation in the skills trap: illuminating the heterogeneous economic returns to high cognitive skills	10
The gendered effects of COVID-19 on well-being: a household perspective	9
Does forming a nuclear family increase religiosity? Longitudinal evidence from the British Household Panel Survey	9
Parenthood, occupational sex segregation, and wage: motherhood penalty and fatherhood premium in China	9
Escaping one’s disadvantage? Neighbourhoods, socioeconomic origin and children’s adult life outcomes	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
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations	9
Women’s aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice	9
Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation	9
Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany	9
Educational outcomes of UK LGB and heterosexual adolescents: exploring gendered differences and mechanisms	8
The role of peers’ perceptions in ethnic self-identification	8
Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field: behavioural evidence from Switzerland	8
Telecommuting and division of domestic work: the role of gender role attitudes in Germany	8
Uncovering hidden opinions: social norms and the expression of xenophobic attitudes	8
Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil	8
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom	8
Does information reduce interpersonal violence? Evidence from prisons	8
Social inequality in admission chances for prestigious higher education programs in Germany: do application patterns matter?	8
Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment	8
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark	8
Technological change, training, and within-firm wage inequality in Germany	8
Origins of attainment: do brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap?	7
The air pollution disadvantage of immigrants in Germany: partly a matter of urbanity	7
Populist partner: the influence of partner characteristics on populist radical right voting	7
Heterogeneity in parental time with children: trends by gender and education between 1961 and 2012 across 20 countries	7

Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US	7
Group boundaries in the Netherlands: how religion and ethnicity matter for social integration	7
Detraditionalization, mental illness reports, and mental health professional care use in Europe	6
When are you coming back? Effect of state-subsidized and employer-sponsored childcare on mothers’ return to work	6
Participation in formal adult education and family life—a gendered story	6
Correction to: Discrimination driven by variation in social and economic conservatism: evidence from a nationwide field experiment	6
Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments	6
Proximity to refugee accommodations does not affect locals’ attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Germany	6
Empowerment and individualization: online banking and household financial organization	6
Gender, Unemployment, and Subjective Well-Being: Why Do Women Suffer Less from Unemployment than Men?	6
Correction to: The end of the golden age: on growing challenges for male workers and their partners to secure a family income	6
A distaste for insecurity: job preferences of young people in the transition to adulthood	6
How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	6
Stratified scars: social inequality in the labour market consequences of apprenticeship dropout	6
A big (male) fish in a small pond? The gendered effect of relative ability on STEM aspirations under stereotype threat	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
Class-based network segregation, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences across societies	5
Correction to: Young adults’ labour market transitions and intergenerational support in Germany	5
Ethnoreligious diversity and state-building: evidence from Pakistan’s tribal areas	5
Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by Muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	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
Are gender norm violations always perceived negatively? The effects of marital name choice on perceived work and relationship commitments	5
Correction to: Following in the parents’ footsteps? Using sibling data to analyse the intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantage in Scotland	5
Student ICT resources and intergenerational transmission of educational inequality: testing implications of a reproduction and mobility perspective	5
When a door closes, who can access the window? Second chance alternatives for higher education as an institutionalized ‘compensatory advantage’ mechanism	5
Beyond absolute education: relative educational attainment and perceived discrimination among immigrants	5
Do kids see it coming? Analysing children’s school performance before and after parental separation in Norway	5
Newcomers’ self-assessed visibility and their perceptions of discrimination. The case of Turks and Syrians in Germany	4
Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: a combined twin and adoption study	4
A liberalizing effect of happiness? The impact of improvements and deteriorations in different dimensions of subjective well-being on concerns about immigration	4
Environmental Inequality in Four European Cities: A Study Combining Household Survey and Geo-Referenced Data	4
Cohort changes in the association between parental divorce and children’s education: A long-term perspective on the institutionalization hypothesis	4
Beyond the cradle: effects of family income in the first 1,000 days on educational achievement later in life	4
Correction to: How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	4
Children left behind. New evidence on the (adverse) impact of grade retention on educational careers	4
The political consequences of the mental load	4
Stratifying cities: the effect of outdoor recreation areas on children’s well-being	4
Social media and hiring: a survey experiment on discrimination based on online social class cues	4
Vocational education, general education, and on-the-job learning over the life cycle	4
Masked by the mean: immigrants in school and differential effects on student achievements	4
Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: evidence from Sweden	4
Correction to: Beyond absolute education: relative educational attainment and perceived discrimination among immigrants	4
Does it matter where you’re from? Geographical variation in social mobility in Britain	4
Determinants of ethnic harassment among first- and second-generation immigrants in Europe	4
Why do young US Americans avoid cross-partisan dating? A closer look at mediators and variation by gender and party	4
Double standards? Co-authorship and gender bias in early-stage academic evaluations	4
Response to: ‘Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality’: a comment on the formal model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger	4
Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019	3
Correction to: Explaining Ethnic Violence: On the Relevance of Geographic, Social, Economic, and Political Factors in Hate Crimes on Refugees	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
Assimilation or third-generation disadvantage? Educational and occupational attainment among the grandchildren of immigrants in France	3
Succeeding without belonging? A double comparison of migrants’ socio-economic attainment and national belonging across origin and residence countries	3
Labour market insecurity and parental co-residence in the United Kingdom: heterogeneities by parental class and age	3
Unstable employment careers and (quasi-)completed fertility: evidence from the labour market deregulation in Italy	3
Transformed ‘postmodern’ life courses? Continuity and change in young adults’ labour market trajectories in Norway	3
Children’s aspirations, their perceptions of parental aspirations, and parents’ factual aspirations—gaining insights into a complex world of interdependencies	3
Prosocial environments promote individual success: evidence from a school network panel study	3
Timing of citizenship acquisition and immigrants’ children educational outcomes: a family fixed-effects approach	3
Attitudes towards education spending when facing a fiscal trade-off: an analysis of stakeholders	3
Fairness of earnings in Europe: the consequences of unfair under- and overreward for life satisfaction	3
Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process	3
Does statistical discrimination explain grading bias? Evidence from a natural experiment	3
Changing choices? Primary and secondary effects through times of educational contraction	3
How the educational level of confidants impacts our political attitudes?	3
The impact of religious involvement on trust, volunteering, and perceived cooperativeness: evidence from two British panels	3
Exploring integration and migration dynamics: the research potentials of a large-scale longitudinal household study of refugees in Germany	3
Kinship, heritage, and ethnic choice: ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland	3