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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Work less, help out more? The persistence of gender inequality in housework and childcare during UK COVID-19	44
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
COVID-19 and the decline in Asian American employment	25
Socio-economic position and local solidarity in times of crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of informal helping arrangements in Germany	25
Two tales of one city: Unequal vulnerability and resilience to COVID-19 by socioeconomic status in Wuhan, China	23
Intergenerational mobility, intergenerational effects, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity: A comparison of four approaches	23
Occupations, workplaces or jobs?: An exploration of stratification contexts using administrative data	20
Sticky educational expectations: A cross-country comparison	18
COVID-19–associated discrimination in Germany	17
The declining significance of occupation in research on intergenerational mobility	15
Care and careers: Gender (in)equality in unpaid care, housework and employment	15
Concerted cultivation in early childhood and social inequalities in cognitive skills: Evidence from a German panel study	13
The distributional impacts of the reduction in remittances in Central America in COVID-19 times	12
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	12
Resource specificity in intergenerational inequality: The case of education, occupation, and income	12
The gender-race intersection and the ‘sheltering-effect’ of public-sector employment	11
To work or to study? Postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany – Evidence from a choice experiment	11
Social origin and secondary labour market entry: Ascriptive and institutional inequalities over the early career in Italy and Germany	11
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice	11
A less objectionable greed? Work-life conflict and unjust pay during a pandemic	10
An investigation of the causal effect of educational expectations on school performance. Behavioral consequences, time-stable confounding, or reciprocal causality?	10
Income inequality, emotional anxiety, and self-rated health in times of the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from a cross-national survey	10
An anatomy of the intergenerational correlation of educational attainment – Learning from the educational attainments of Norwegian twins and their children	9

Caught by surprise: The adaptation of parental expectations after unexpected ability track placement	9
How does exposure to a different school track influence learning progress? Explaining scissor effects by track in Germany	9
Subjective social class has a bad name, but predicts life chances well	9
Social capital and self-efficacy in the process of youth entry into the labour market: Evidence from a longitudinal study in Sweden	9
Does downward social mobility make people more hostile towards immigrants?	9
Investigating the role of educational aspirations as central mediators of secondary school track choice in Germany	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
Does school matter for students’ self-esteem? Associations of family SES, peer SES, and school resources with Chinese students’ self-esteem	8
Gender differences in experiencing coronavirus-triggered economic hardship: Evidence from four developing countries	8
Both parents matter. Family-based educational inequality in Italy over the second half of the 20th century	8
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
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
Does tracking increase segregation? International evidence on the effects of between-school tracking on social segregation across schools	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
On class and earnings trajectories: The use of class and earnings to study intergenerational mobility	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
Shadow education, pandemic style: Social class, race, and supplemental education during Covid-19	6
Educational expenditure of Asian American families	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
Who Benefits More from the College Expansion Policy? Evidence from China	6
Occupations, organizations, and the structure of wage inequality in the Netherlands	6
Upper secondary tracks and student competencies: A selection or a causal effect? Evidence from the Italian case	6
Measurement error in occupation and the impact on intergenerational mobility	5
Family, community, and the rural social mobility advantage	5
Sibling similarity in income: A life course perspective	5
On the way to becoming a society of downward mobility? Intergenerational occupational mobility in seven West German birth cohorts (1944–1978)	5
Welfare regime patterns in the social class-fertility relationship: Second births in Austria, France, Norway, and the United Kingdom	5
Employers’ recruitment contexts and hiring preferences in the German youth labor market	5
Investigating the mechanisms of G × SES interactions for education	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
Context in continuity: The enduring legacy of neighborhood disadvantage across generations	4
Local historical context and multigenerational socioeconomic attainment	4
The structure of financial systems and top incomes in advanced economies: A comparative distributional analysis of the financial wage premium	4
Social class and age-earnings trajectories in 14 European countries	4
Old habits die hard? School guidance interventions and the persistence of inequalities	4
Who benefits most from college? Dimensions of selection and heterogeneous returns to higher education in the United States and the Netherlands	4
Parents’ income and wealth matter more for children with low than high academic performance: Evidence from comparisons between and within families in egalitarian Norway	4
Same major, same economic returns? College selectivity and earnings inequality in young adulthood	4
New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Examining socioeconomic selectivity in pre-college study abroad intent and participation	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
How variants of tracking affect the role of genes and environment in explaining child attendance at upper secondary school	4
Personality traits as a partial explanation for gender wage gaps and glass ceilings	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
What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends	4