Social Science Research

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Editorial Board	166
Falling sideways? Social status and the true nature of elite downward mobility	162
The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries	108
Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context	59
Whither repeat players? Litigation experience and success in court: Evidence from Russian commercial courts	49
Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election	44
Who influences lower-status individuals more: People of higher-status outgroups or people of their lower-status ingroup? Examining the difference between matters of opinion and matters of fact	40
Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children	39
The changing social gradient of marriage and cohabitation in seven Latin American countries	39
Jumping together or not? Associations between siblings’ relationship quality and fertility transitions	32
Intergenerational support and retirement timing among older men and women by race/ethnicity	29
Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control	29
Networks in the making: Friendship segregation and ethnic homophily	27
Justice perceptions of sanctions for unemployed welfare recipients	26
Long-term labor market returns to upper secondary school track choice: Leveraging idiosyncratic variation in peers’ choices	26
Liberal economic institutions reduce relative poverty only in developed, individualist societies: A global analysis, 2000–2019	25
Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples	25
Who receives support during pregnancy? Variation by intendedness	24
Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations	24
Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?	24
What drives educational segregation and which communities are affected? Findings from a decomposition approach	24
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation: Investigating the perception-choice process	22
Scar effects of unemployment on generalised social trust: The joint impact of individual and contextual unemployment across Europe	22
Parenthood, earnings, and the relevance of family formation sequences	20
Demand-side consequences of unemployment and horizontal skill mismatches across national contexts: An employer-based factorial survey experiment	19

The evolution of demographic methods	18
Egalitarian penalty or reward? A longitudinal study of adolescent gender attitudes and adulthood income	18
The organization of political belief networks: A cross-country analysis	18
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Impact of layoffs on mortality and physical health in transitional China 1989–2015	18
Distinctively black names and mechanisms of discrimination: Evidence from the early 20th century	17
Rising selectivity of Israeli immigrants to the United States, 1976–2017	17
Is political interest tracked in schools? Evidence from Germany	16
Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom	16
Resource asymmetry reduces generosity and paying forward generosity, among the resource-advantaged and disadvantaged	15
Do minority inclusive institutions increase electoral support for radical-right parties?	15
Moral intuitions and attitudes towards affirmative action in college admissions	15
Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach	15
An epidemic of social isolation? Age and cohort trends of social connectedness among older adults, 2004–2018	14
COVID-19 facial covering during outdoor recreation reflects historical disease prevalence and culture above and beyond governmental measures – A study in 53 countries	14
An intersectional examination of the opportunity gap in science: A critical quantitative approach to latent class analysis	14
Do high-income households ‘label’ family cash benefits? Evidence on family expenditures from Australia	14
Demand- and supply-side perspectives on parental support: Inequalities between and within families	14
Is educational mobility harmful for health?	13
Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism	13
Within-country differences in school-work linkages: The case of Israel	12
Transforming the residential built environment: Land-use policies and the influence of the growth machine across the United States	12
Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation	12
Quantifying the robustness of causal inferences: Sensitivity analysis for pragmatic social science	12
Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?	12
Once outside, always outside? The link between overeducation persistence and training systems throughout the employment career	11
Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy?	11
Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong	11
Why do some occupations offer more part-time work than others? Reciprocal dynamics in occupational gender segregation and occupational part-time work in West Germany, 1976–2010	11
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health	11
Cultural talk or cultural walk? Highbrow tastes and network quality	11
Aggressive behavior and social status: An experimental test of the general aggression model	11
Reexamining the causes of age patterns in Black-White birth weight disparities: Evidence from U.S. cohorts	11
Social class, intergenerational mobility, and desired number of children in China	10
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Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors	10
Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment	10
Contextual variation in the effect of unemployment on subjective wellbeing in the United States	10
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Blending in and standing out: College-going rates across charter and traditional public high schools	10
Incarceration, stigma, and labor power: The prison as labor governance institution in 36 OECD countries	10
Secularism, family ties and loneliness: A multilevel longitudinal study of ten European societies	10
The role of workplace offending in the relationship between work and crime: Testing the traditional, displacement, emboldenment and continuity hypotheses	10
Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world	9
Sequence analysis: Its past, present, and future	9
How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment	9
The role of assortative mating in marital infidelity: Insights from China	9
A double-diamond retrospective on modeling change in attitudes and opinions	9
Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research	9
Advances and innovations in methods for collecting egocentric network data	9

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Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households	8
Knowledge Discovery: Methods from data mining and machine learning	8
Selection into higher education and subsequent religious decline in a United States cohort	8
Overwork and the use of paid leave and flexible work policies in U.S. workplaces	8
Surveying the political divide: Public opinion in the era of partisan meaning-making	8
The causal effect of skin color bias in online dating	8
Intergenerationally penalized? The long-term wage consequences of parental joblessness	8
Consider your origins: Parental social class and preferences for redistribution in the United States from 1977 to 2018	8
Age discrimination in hiring: Relative importance and additive and multiplicative effects	8
Amid union decline: State-level unionization and overwork of American workers	7
Men’s and women’s aversion to female breadwinning: Linking individual attitudes to macro-level contexts	7
Socioeconomic stratification and trajectories of social trust during COVID-19	7
Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health	7
Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018	7
Intersecting inequalities in retirement trajectories under a privatized pension system: Gender, labor force status, and occupational prestige	7
Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts	7
Social inequalities in green exposure in small- and medium-sized U.S. cities: A mobility-based approach	7
The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think	7
Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity	7
Median voter dynamics in a laboratory experiment on voting over redistribution	7
Corrigendum to “A tangled web: The reciprocal relationship between depression and educational outcomes in China” [Soc. Sci. Res. 85 (2020) 102353]	7
Tracking and social inequalities in school belonging - A difference-in-differences approach	7
When does criminal victimization undermine generalized trust? A weighted panel analysis of the effects of crime type, frequency, and variety	6
Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women	6
The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019	6
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An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization	6
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Fifty years of structural equation modeling: A history of generalization, unification, and diffusion	6
Comparing logit & probit coefficients between nested models	6
Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion	6
Moral disagreement in everyday life: An inductive framework for capturing ‘moral order’	6
Higher education non-completion, employers, and labor market integration: Experimental evidence	6
Field-specific cultural capital and persistence in college majors	5
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Growing or declining penalties? A cross-temporal analysis of unemployment scars in the German labor market	5
Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment	5
Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan	5
Global liberalism, emerging illiberalism, and human rights, 1980 to 2018	5
Bridging the gap between multilevel modeling and economic methods	5
Same degrees, different outcomes? Fields of study choices and gender wage inequality in Finland and Germany	5
Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes	5
Persistent disparities in affordable rental housing among America's ethnoracial groups	5
The diffusion of federal Title IX complaints throughout U.S. colleges and universities, 1994–2014	5
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch	5
Stuck in a bad job? The dynamics of poor-quality employment in Chile, 2004–2019	5
Measuring the association between fathers’ involvement and risky behaviours in adolescence	5
Corrigendum to “The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019” [Soc. Sci. Res. (2025) Volume 132/103228]	5
Reciprocity and job mobility: The effect of effort-reward imbalance in the employer-employee relationship on turnover intentions and actual job changes	5
Emotional support among partnered sexual minority and heterosexual individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Editorial Board	5
The effects of debt dependence on economic growth in less-developed countries, 1990–2019	5
Cross-cohort employment differences among U.S. mothers of young children: The role of nonparental childcare	5
Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality	5
Unpacking the linkages between single parent households and early adolescent adjustment	5
The development of ICT skills in adolescence at the intersection of gender and family background	5
A theory of emergence: Knowledge, rewiring and innovation	5
Gender attitudes and the new cultural divide in Europe	5
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Ethno-racial stratification in the mortgage market: The role of co-applicants	4
Divided over globalisation. Measuring the ideological divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians in Europe using a classification approach	4
Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline	4
The STEM leaky pipeline at labor market entry in Spain: The role of job competition and social origin	4
How should the government treat asylum seekers? The role of labour market vulnerability and migration in Europe	4
Monotonic market change: How contracting/expanding Protestant markets impact the founding of American Protestant international ministries	4
Wealth, Income, and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from 30 countries	4
Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2017	4
Working class economic insecurity and voting for radical right and radical left parties	4
Flexible work arrangements, gender ideology, and housework time among dual-earner couples	4
Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death	4
Taste-based gender discrimination in South Korea	4
Prone to wellness? Dispositional awe, religion/spirituality, and well-being among academic scientists	4
Children of the Revolution: The continued unevenness of the gender revolution in housework, childcare and work time across birth cohorts	4
Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health. Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests	4
How routine tasks affect labor market inequalities between vocational and tertiary graduates over the career	4
Women who commit hate-motivated violence: Advancing a gendered understanding of hate crime	4
A civic bridge or a silo? Islam, religious affiliation, and civic engagement in rural Indonesia	3
Between autonomy and interdependence: The changing parental role in adult children's family formation in China	3

Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy	3
Do sanctuary policies increase crime? Contrary evidence from a county-level investigation in the United States	3
How does employees’ behavior change how we feel about their organization? Transfer of affective impressions between employees and organizations	3
Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave	3
Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis	3
“Children's time use in immigrant and native families: National evidence from Australia”	3
Dual language immersion programs and their neighborhoods: Issues of program access and representation within Los Angeles Unified School District	3
Do high childcare costs and low access to Head Start and childcare subsidies limit mothers’ employment? A state-level analysis	3
Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth?	3
What's a parent to do? Measuring cultural logics of parenting with computational text analysis	3
Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines?	3
Same environment, stratified impacts? Air pollution, extreme temperatures, and birth weight in South China	3
Disaggregating the relationship between precarious employment and delayed marriage in Japan: Incorporating non-cohabiting partnerships	3
Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark	3
The measurement of gender expression in survey research	3
Early adverse childhood experiences and exclusionary discipline in high school	3
Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US	3
Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment	3
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Inequality begets inequality: Income inequality and socioeconomic achievement gradients across the United States	3
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Assessing the impact of an increase in the minimum wage on household income and poverty	3
Stratification of poverty risk: The importance of social class in four European countries	2
Methodological advances in quantitative social science: In celebration of the Social Science Research 50th anniversary	2
Proximate sources of growth in neighborhood income segregation: Class-selective migration versus in situ change	2
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants’ national identification	2
Intergenerational income mobility in the United States: A racial-spatial account	2
Do academic ability and social background influence each other in shaping educational attainment? The case of the transition to secondary education in Germany	2
Gender overeducation gap in the digital age: Can spatial flexibility through working from home close the gap?	2
Socioeconomic factors in the age-graded effect of incarceration on depressive symptoms in early adulthood	2
Does a longer sexual resume affect marriage rates?	2
Parental socioeconomic status and offspring neighborhood attainment: Pathways through middle adulthood	2
Status, masculinity, and femininity at the intersection of age and gender	2
The gender wealth gap in the United States: Trends and explanations	2
The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage	2
Heterogeneous effects of return migration on children's mental health and cognitive outcomes	2
Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest	2
The relative pay for foreign work: A novel evidence from home and host countries	2
On sociologically derived mathematics	2
Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers’ empowerment matter?	2
A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling	2
Race and leadership suitability in multiracial churches: An experimental exploration	2
Stability of dyadic exchange: Experimental evidence for the impact of shared group membership	2
Online social class cues and employability: Experimental evidence from Germany	2
Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period	2
Social influence and network structure: How conspiracy theories spread on social media	2
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The effects of being racially, ethnically, & socioeconomically different from peers	2
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Men's decline and rising support for hostile sexism: A survey experiment from South Korea	2
On religious ambiguity: Childhood family religiosity and adult flourishing in a twin sample	2
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Longitudinal exposure to neighborhood poverty and obesity risk in emerging adulthood	2
Groups activate identities; identities activate behavior: How political homogeneity breeds extremism and apathy in American politics	2
Citizenship status and requirement, culture and immigrants’ attitudes toward local immigration: A study of 21 western and non-western societies	2
The status and stigma consequences of mental illness labels, deviant behavior, and fear	2
Could working less promote environmental concern? A cross-national intercohort analysis	2
The nature-nurture of academic achievement at the intersection between gender, family background, and school context	2
Maternal health, well-being, and employment transitions: A longitudinal comparison of partnered and single mothers in Germany	2
Political efficacy and fertility intentions: A survey experiment study in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore	2
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Sponsorship as a double-edged sword: Political contingency and mobility dynamics in the Chinese bureaucracy	2
The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data	2
Unpacking the link between cousin marriage and women's paid work	2
Race, parents, and schools: Understanding how parental racial socialization operates within schools as racialized organizations	2
Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States	2
Military service and sociodemographic determinants of depressive symptom trajectories	2
State-level contexts and sexual minority occupational segregation in the United States: Assessing legal protections and public attitudes	2
Inequality and the eroding base of liberal democracy	2
Tracing the Gender Confidence Gap in Computing: A Cross-National Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Assessed Technological Ability	2
More than a side-hustle: Satisfaction with conventional and microtask work and the association with life satisfaction	2
The effect of parental separation on educational achievement: An instrumental variable analysis	2
Teacher's social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment	2
Women's employment and Children's education: Longitudinal evidence from Nepal	2
Notes on the history of Social Science Research: In celebration of its 50th anniversary	2
Measurement invariance in the social sciences: Historical development, methodological challenges, state of the art, and future perspectives	2
Everyday discrimination in later life: A social network approach	2
Inequality in the shadow: The role of private tutoring in SES achievement gaps	2