OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Listening to the Voices of America	25
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	21
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	20
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality	20
Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015	19
Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations	18
No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19	16
Do Perceptions of Privilege Enhance—or Impede—Perceptions of Intelligence? Evidence from a National Survey Experiment	14
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data	13
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements	13
Social, Resource, and Institution Disruptions and the Evolving Lives of Economically Vulnerable Older Adults: Implications for Policies and Programs in the New Normal	12
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	11
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts	11
Living Alone for Black and White Men and Women over Four Decades, 1980–2019	11
Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification	11
The Social and Political Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Introduction	11
Justice Delayed: An Analysis of Local Proposals for Black Reparations	10
Inequality and the Status Window: Inequality, Conflict, and the Salience of Status Differences in Conflicts over Resources	10
Crafting Democratic Futures: Understanding Political Conditions and Racialized Attitudes Toward Black Reparations	10
Not Just White Soccer Moms: Voting in Suburbia in the 2016 and 2020 Elections	10
Growing Up in Rural America	10
“I Used to Get WIC . . . But Then I Stopped”: How WIC Participants Perceive the Value and Burdens of Maintaining Benefits	10
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latino Immigrants	9
Catching Up and Coping in the COVID Economy	9
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment	9

Do Consequences of Parental Job Displacement for Infant Health Vary Across Local Economic Contexts?	9
Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children	9
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications	9
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws	9
Motivated by Money? Class, Gender, Race, and Workers’ Accounts of Platform-Based Gig Work Participation	9
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems	9
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	8
Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	8
Monetary Sanctions and Symbiotic Harms	7
Reinforcing the Web of Municipal Courts: Evidence and Implications Post-Ferguson	7
Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States	7
Racial and Ethnic Status Distinctions and Discrimination: The Effects of Prior Contact and Group Interaction	7
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19	7
Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic	7
Families’ Job Characteristics and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Differences by Income, Race-Ethnicity, and Nativity	6
Life During COVID for Court-Involved People	6
“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs	6
The “Rise” of Multiracials? Examining the Growth in Multiracial Identification in the 2020 U.S. Census	6
How Americans Judge: A Topology of Moral Communities	6
The Effects of the Great Depression on Children’s Intergenerational Mobility	6
Exploring the Trade-Off Between Surviving and Thriving: Heterogeneous Responses to Adversity and Disruptive Events Among Disadvantaged Black Youth	5
Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions	5
Stalled Progress? Five Decades of Black-White and Rural-Urban Income Gaps	5
“Disconnected” Men: Understanding Men’s Joint Roles as Workers and Romantic Partners	5
Coming of Age in Appalachia, Emerging or Expedited Adulthood?	5
Depopulation, Deaths, Diversity, and Deprivation: The 4Ds of Rural Population Change	5
Talk of Family: How Institutional Overlap Shapes Family-Related Discourse Across Social Class	5
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	4
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families	4
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans	4
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States	4
Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South	4
The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy	4
COVID-19 and Emergency Rental Assistance: Impact on Rent Arrears, Debt, and the Well-Being of Renters in Philadelphia	4
The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity	4
The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?	4
Private Probation Costs, Compliance, and the Proportionality of Punishment: Evidence from Georgia and Missouri	3
Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project	3
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic	3
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America	3
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness	3
Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?	3
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010	3
Rural Kids and Wealth	3
Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability	3
Growing Up in Rural America	3
The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality	3
“Turning Their Back on Kids”: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities	3

Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success	2
Suffering, the Safety Net, and Disparities During COVID-19	2
Punishing Immigrants: The Consequences of Monetary Sanctions in the Crimmigration System	2
“We Keep Each Other Safe”: San Francisco Bay Area Community-Based Organizations Respond to Enduring Crises in the COVID-19 Era	2
Stepping In and Stepping Away: Variation in How Children Navigate Responsibilities Stemming from Paternal Incarceration	2
When Mamaw Becomes Mom: Social Capital and Kinship Family Formation amid the Rural Opioid Crisis	2
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans	2
Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States	2
The Not-So-New South Suburbs: Asian Immigration and the Politics of School Integration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina	2
New Frontiers of Integration: Convergent Pathways of Neighborhood Diversification in Metropolitan New York	2
Racial Diversity and Segregation: Comparing Principal Cities, Inner-Ring Suburbs, Outlying Suburbs, and the Suburban Fringe	2
We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work	2
Introduction	2
Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs	2
What Makes a Reparation Successful? A Discussion to Inform Design of Reparations to Black Americans	2
Administrative Burden and the Reproduction of Settler Colonialism: A Case Study of the Indian Child Welfare Act	2
A Qualitative Examination of Work, Families, and Schools in Low-Income Latinx Communities During Strict Immigration Enforcement	2
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	2