OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility is 4. 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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Sociodemographic inequality in exposure to COVID-19-induced economic hardship in the United Kingdom	54
Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK COVID-19	44
The motherhood penalty and The fatherhood premium in employment during covid-19: evidence from The united states	43
What happens when schools shut down? Investigating inequality in students’ reading behavior during Covid-19 in Denmark	39
Gender inequality and the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from a large national survey during South Africa’s lockdown	36
Large loss in studying time during the closure of schools in Switzerland in 2020	32
Socio-economic position and local solidarity in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of informal helping arrangements in Germany	24
COVID-19 and the decline in Asian American employment	24
Disparities in vulnerability to complications from COVID-19 arising from disparities in preexisting conditions in the United States	24
Two tales of one city: Unequal vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19 by socioeconomic status in Wuhan, China	22
Intergenerational mobility, intergenerational effects, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity: A comparison of four approaches	22
Career trajectories and cumulative wages: The case of temporary employment	19
Occupations, workplaces or jobs?: An exploration of stratification contexts using administrative data	19
COVID-19–associated discrimination in Germany	17
Sticky educational expectations: A cross-country comparison	16
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	14
The declining significance of occupation in research on intergenerational mobility	14
Resource specificity in intergenerational inequality: The case of education, occupation, and income	12
Concerted cultivation in early childhood and social inequalities in cognitive skills: Evidence from a German panel study	12
The distributional impacts of the reduction in remittances in Central America in COVID-19 times	11
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany	11
To work or to study? Postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany – Evidence from a choice experiment	11
Income inequality, emotional anxiety, and self-rated health in times of the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from a cross-national survey	10
A less objectionable greed? Work-life conflict and unjust pay during a pandemic	10
The gender-race intersection and the ‘sheltering-effect’ of public-sector employment	10

An investigation of the causal effect of educational expectations on school performance. Behavioral consequences, time-stable confounding, or reciprocal causality?	10
Does downward social mobility make people more hostile towards immigrants?	9
Social capital and self-efficacy in the process of youth entry into the labour market: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Sweden	9
The primary effect of ethnic origin – rooted in early childhood? An analysis of the educational disadvantages of Turkish-origin children during the transition to secondary education in Germany	9
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice	9
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well	9
The rise of income and the demise of class and social status? A systematic review of measures of socio-economic position in stratification research	8
Caught by surprise: The adaptation of parental expectations after unexpected ability track placement	8
Investigating the role of educational aspirations as central mediators of secondary school track choice in Germany	8
Both parents matter. Family-based educational inequality in Italy over the second half of the 20th century	8
How does exposure to a different school track influence learning progress? Explaining scissor effects by track in Germany	8
Gender differences in experiencing coronavirus-triggered economic hardship: Evidence from four developing countries	8
Does school matter for students’ self-esteem? Associations of family SES, peer SES, and school resources with Chinese students’ self-esteem	8
An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children	7
Parental educational similarity and inequality implications for infant health in Chile: Evidence from administrative records, 1990–2015	7
Routine-biased technological change does not always lead to polarisation: Evidence from 10 OECD countries, 1995–2013	7
Men and Women’s Different Dreams on the Future of the Gendered Division of Paid Work and Household Work after COVID-19 in South Korea	7
Cumulative disadvantage? The role of race compared to ethnicity, religion, and non-white phenotype in explaining hiring discrimination in the U.S. labour market	7
The long arm of parental advantage: Socio-economic background and parental financial transfers over adult children’s life courses	7
Concise survey measures for the Big Five personality traits	7
Shadow education, pandemic style: Social class, race, and supplemental education during Covid-19	6
Who benefits from attending elite universities? Family background and graduates’ career trajectories	6
Gender inequality in educational performance over the school career: The role of tracking	6
Does tracking increase segregation? International evidence on the effects of between-school tracking on social segregation across schools	6
Who Benefits More from the College Expansion Policy? Evidence from China	6
Occupations, organizations, and the structure of wage inequality in the Netherlands	6
What shape great expectations? Gender and social-origin effects on expectation of university graduation	6
Non-Cognitive skills and the growing achievement Gap⋆	6
Employer preferences for vocational over general education: evidence from an employer survey experiment	6
Gene-environment interactions and school tracking during secondary education: Evidence from the U.S.	6
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case	6
Occupations and Inequalities in the 21st Century: What’s in your Wallet?	6
Lifetime inequality: Income and occupational differences and dynamics in the US	6
Measurement error in occupation and the impact on intergenerational mobility	5
Welfare regime patterns in the social class-fertility relationship: Second births in Austria, France, Norway, and the United Kingdom	5
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	5
On class and earnings trajectories: The use of class and earnings to study intergenerational mobility	5
On the way to becoming a society of downward mobility? Intergenerational occupational mobility in seven West German birth cohorts (1944–1978)	5
Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market	5
Sibling similarity in income: A life course perspective	5
Educational aspirations and decision-making in a context of poverty. A test of rational choice models in El Salvador	5
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	4
Do the institutionally disadvantaged students benefit more from boarding at school in their studying? The role of migration and Hukou status in China	4
Who benefits most from college? Dimensions of selection and heterogeneous returns to higher education in the United States and the Netherlands	4
Understanding differences in children’s reading ability by social origin and gender: The role of parental reading and pre- and primary school exposure in Ireland	4
Comparing the social and spatial mobility across UK regions – Evidence from the 1958 and 1970 birth cohorts	4
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation	4
University prestige, cultural distance of the place of education, and wage differences between high-skilled U.S. immigrants with foreign and domestic credentials	4
Personality traits as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps and glass ceilings	4
Local historical context and multigenerational socioeconomic attainment	4

Technology implementation within enterprises and job ending among employees. A study of the role of educational attainment, organizational tenure, age and unionization	4
What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends	4
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities	4
Educational expenditure of Asian American families	4
Context in continuity: The enduring legacy of neighborhood disadvantage across generations	4
Same major, same economic returns? College selectivity and earnings inequality in young adulthood	4