OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	40
Listening to the Voices of America	28
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	26
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality	24
Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015	23
Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations	21
Do Perceptions of Privilege Enhance—or Impede—Perceptions of Intelligence? Evidence from a National Survey Experiment	18
No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19	18
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data	17
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements	16
Social, Resource, and Institution Disruptions and the Evolving Lives of Economically Vulnerable Older Adults: Implications for Policies and Programs in the New Normal	16
The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction	16
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts	15
Growing Up in Rural America	15
Living Alone for Black and White Men and Women over Four Decades, 1980–2019	15
Movin’ On Up? The Role of Growing Up Rural in Shaping Why Working-Class Men Do—and Don’t—Seek to Improve Their Labor-Market Prospects	14
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations	14
Crafting Democratic Futures: Understanding Political Conditions and Racialized Attitudes Toward Black Reparations	14
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification	14
Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections	13
Inequality and the Status Window: Inequality, Conflict, and the Salience of Status Differences in Conflicts over Resources	13
“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits	12
Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children	12
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment	12
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications	12

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latino Immigrants	11
Motivated by Money? Class, Gender, Race, and Workers’ Accounts of Platform-Based Gig Work Participation	11
Do Consequences of Parental Job Displacement for Infant Health Vary Across Local Economic Contexts?	11
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems	11
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws	11
Catching Up and Coping in the COVID Economy	11
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	10
Racial and Ethnic Status Distinctions and Discrimination: The Effects of Prior Contact and Group Interaction	10
Life During COVID for Court-Involved People	10
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Reinforcing the Web of Municipal Courts: Evidence and Implications Post-Ferguson	10
Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic	10
Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States	9
“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs	9
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19	9
Monetary Sanctions and Symbiotic Harms	8
The “Rise” of Multiracials? Examining the Growth in Multiracial Identification in the 2020 U.S. Census	8
“Disconnected” Men: Understanding Men’s Joint Roles as Workers and Romantic Partners	8
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility	8
How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities	8
The Transition from Prison to Community	8
Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class	8
Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth	7
Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions	7
Stalled Progress? Five Decades of Black-White and Rural-Urban Income Gaps	7
Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?	7
Families’ Job Characteristics and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Differences by Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity	7
Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change	6
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States	6
The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?	6
COVID-19 and Emergency Rental Assistance: Impact on Rent Arrears, Debt, and the Well-Being of Renters in Philadelphia	6
Rural Kids and Wealth	6
The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity	6
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	6
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families	6
The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy	6
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans	5
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010	5
Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South	5
Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?	5
Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project	5
Growing Up in Rural America	5
The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality	5
New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York	4
Private Probation Costs, Compliance, and the Proportionality of Punishment: Evidence from Georgia and Missouri	4
Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States	4
“Turning Their Back on Kids”: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities	4
The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina	4

Punishing Immigrants: The Consequences of Monetary Sanctions in the Crimmigration System	4
“We Keep Each Other Safe”: San Francisco Bay Area Community-Based Organizations Respond to Enduring Crises in the COVID-19 Era	4
Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success	4
Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability	4
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness	4
Frontiers of Research on Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice	4
Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act	4
Racial Diversity and Segregation: Comparing Principal Cities, Inner-Ring Suburbs, Outlying Suburbs, and the Suburban Fringe	4
Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19	4
Introduction	4
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic	4
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America	4
Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs	4
What Makes a Reparation Successful? A Discussion to Inform Design of Reparations to Black Americans	4
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans	4
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	3
When Mamaw Becomes Mom: Social Capital and Kinship Family Formation amid the Rural Opioid Crisis	3
Politicizing Status Loss Among Trump Supporters in 2020	3
The Politics of Expedience: Evanston, Illinois, and the Fight for Reparations	3
Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation	3
The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Disinformation Warnings and the Spread of Misinformation Regarding COVID-19	3
A Qualitative Examination of Work, Families, and Schools in Low-Income Latinx Communities During Strict Immigration Enforcement	3
Racial-Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between an Early Elementary School ADHD Diagnosis and Later Child Well-Being	3
Using Urban Renewal Records to Advance Reparative Justice	3
Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being	3
Stepping In and Stepping Away: Variation in How Children Navigate Responsibilities Stemming from Paternal Incarceration	3
We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work	3
The Scope of Racial Bias in Policing: Behavioral Science’s Role in a Systemic Problem	3
Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services	3
U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020	3