OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of European Sociological Review 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden	41
Stressful discrimination: two field experiments on social interaction	36
The female-breadwinner well-being ‘penalty’: differences by men’s (un)employment and country	29
The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany	29
Early Retirement and Social Class: A Health-Giving Choice for All?	29
Is there a growing gender divide among young adults in regard to ideological left–right self-placement? Evidence from 32 European countries	28
What (wo)men want? Evidence from a factorial survey on preferred work hours in couples after childbirth	27
Are female-dominated occupations a secure option? Occupational gender segregation, accompanied occupational characteristics, and the risk of becoming unemployed	25
Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: evidence from Swedish register data	25
Changing flux, persisting barriers: assessing the career mobility regime changes in France	22
Shouldering childhood: early behavioural traits and discrimination concerns	22
Increasingly polarized? Inequality, prosperity, and perceived socioeconomic conflict in advanced economies (1987–2019)	21
Fragmentation or integration? Ethnic diversity and the structural cohesion of adolescent social networks	19
Pathways to prosocial leadership: an online experiment on the effects of external subsidies and the relative price of giving	19
Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media	18
Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market	18
Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies	17
Aleatoric governance: using lotteries to break the iron law of oligarchy	17
Rebel without a Cause: The Effects of Social Origins and Disposable Income on Rule Violations	17
Support for everyone or selection of some? Self-selection and assignment into a large-scale refugee mentoring program in Germany	16
Two faces of benefit generosity: comparing justice preferences in the access to and level of welfare benefits	16
Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France	16
What Drives Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Online? A Novel Approach Using Twitter	15
Linked generations: child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ mental well-being	15
Where DESO Disappears: Spatial Inequality and Social Stratification at Labour Market Entry	15

Not all wealth is the same: types and levels of wealth and children’s university enrolment	15
Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland	15
Correction to: Not Cologne but the data collection (might have) changed everything: a cautionary tale on ignoring changes in data recording in sociological research	14
Manager’s gender, supervisory style, and employee’s perception of the demanding work climate	14
Family Background, Educational Qualifications, and Labour Market Attainment: Evidence from Danish Siblings	14
Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion	14
Do refugee children impair the academic performance of native children in the school? Informative null results from Danish Register Data	13
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France	13
Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents	13
The polarization of real estate ownership and increasing wealth inequality in Spain	13
Correction to: Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	12
Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK	12
Taxed fairly? How differences in perception shape attitudes towards progressive taxation	12
Information intervention on long-term earnings prospects and the gender gap in major choice	12
At Which Age is Education the Great Equalizer? A Causal Mediation Analysis of the (In-)Direct Effects of Social Origin over the Life Course	11
Who perceives lower wages for women to be fair? How perceptions of the fairness of men’s and women’s wages vary by firm and workplace characteristics	11
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants	11
The later the better? A novel approach to estimating the effect of school starting age on ADHD and academic skills	11
The Generations and Gender Survey: a cross-national longitudinal resource	11
Does inequality undermine life satisfaction? Effective identification of country-level controls for a longitudinal investigation	10
Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate	10
Does within-school between-class ability grouping harm the educational outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged children? International evidence	10
The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain	10
Do African Americans overreport or underreport their experiences of discrimination? Evidence from list experiments	10
Control variable selection in applied quantitative sociology: a critical review	10
Cross-national variation in the skills trap: illuminating the heterogeneous economic returns to high cognitive skills	10
Swiss Job Market Monitor: A Rich Source of Demand-Side Micro Data of the Labour Market	9
Does forming a nuclear family increase religiosity? Longitudinal evidence from the British Household Panel Survey	9
Racial bias in media coverage: accounting for structural position and public interest	9
Correction to: A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	8
National High-Stakes Testing, Gender, and School Stress in Europe: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis	8
Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment	8
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations	8
Escaping one’s disadvantage? Neighbourhoods, socioeconomic origin and children’s adult life outcomes	8
Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field: behavioural evidence from Switzerland	8
Uncovering hidden opinions: social norms and the expression of xenophobic attitudes	8
Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany	8
Educational outcomes of UK LGB and heterosexual adolescents: exploring gendered differences and mechanisms	8
The gendered effects of COVID-19 on well-being: a household perspective	8
Women’s aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice	8
Does information reduce interpersonal violence? Evidence from prisons	7
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom	7
The role of peers’ perceptions in ethnic self-identification	7
Telecommuting and division of domestic work: the role of gender role attitudes in Germany	7
Technological change, training, and within-firm wage inequality in Germany	7
Occupational earning potential: a new measure of social hierarchy in Europe and the US	7
Not in a Class of One’s Own: Social Origin Differentials in Applying to Gender-(A)Typical Fields of Study across the Educational Hierarchy	7
How are cultural tastes stratified? Evidence from library borrowing for the entire population of Denmark	7
Social inequality in admission chances for prestigious higher education programs in Germany: do application patterns matter?	7
Group boundaries in the Netherlands: how religion and ethnicity matter for social integration	7

Origins of attainment: do brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap?	7
A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	7
Does more education lower the barriers to social mobility? An analysis of three birth cohorts during a period of educational expansion in Brazil	7
Populist partner: the influence of partner characteristics on populist radical right voting	7
A distaste for insecurity: job preferences of young people in the transition to adulthood	6
Participation in formal adult education and family life—a gendered story	6
Heterogeneity in parental time with children: trends by gender and education between 1961 and 2012 across 20 countries	6
Detraditionalization, mental illness reports, and mental health professional care use in Europe	6
Correction to: Discrimination driven by variation in social and economic conservatism: evidence from a nationwide field experiment	6
Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by Muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	6
Proximity to refugee accommodations does not affect locals’ attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Germany	6
With a Little Help from My Peer Clique: Mitigating the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty	6
Correction to: The end of the golden age: on growing challenges for male workers and their partners to secure a family income	6
Union dissolution and children’s educational achievement: separating effects of school and non-school environments	6
The air pollution disadvantage of immigrants in Germany: partly a matter of urbanity	6
When are you coming back? Effect of state-subsidized and employer-sponsored childcare on mothers’ return to work	6
Gender, Unemployment, and Subjective Well-Being: Why Do Women Suffer Less from Unemployment than Men?	6
Correction to: Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany	5
Correction to: Do women evaluate their lower earnings still to be fair? Findings on the contented female worker paradox examining the role of occupational contexts in 27 European countries	5
When a door closes, who can access the window? Second chance alternatives for higher education as an institutionalized ‘compensatory advantage’ mechanism	5
Student ICT resources and intergenerational transmission of educational inequality: testing implications of a reproduction and mobility perspective	5
Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective	5
Ethnoreligious diversity and state-building: evidence from Pakistan’s tribal areas	5
How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	5
A big (male) fish in a small pond? The gendered effect of relative ability on STEM aspirations under stereotype threat	5
Correction to: Following in the parents’ footsteps? Using sibling data to analyse the intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantage in Scotland	4
Beyond the cradle: effects of family income in the first 1,000 days on educational achievement later in life	4
Vocational education, general education, and on-the-job learning over the life cycle	4
Are gender norm violations always perceived negatively? The effects of marital name choice on perceived work and relationship commitments	4
Determinants of ethnic harassment among first- and second-generation immigrants in Europe	4
Wage Differences between Atypical and Standard Workers in European Countries: Moving beyond Average Effects	4
Double standards? Co-authorship and gender bias in early-stage academic evaluations	4
Stratifying cities: the effect of outdoor recreation areas on children’s well-being	4
Correction to: Young adults’ labour market transitions and intergenerational support in Germany	4
Environmental Inequality in Four European Cities: A Study Combining Household Survey and Geo-Referenced Data	4
Masked by the mean: immigrants in school and differential effects on student achievements	4
Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: a combined twin and adoption study	4
Class-based network segregation, economic inequality, and redistributive preferences across societies	4
Correction to: How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	3
Children left behind. New evidence on the (adverse) impact of grade retention on educational careers	3
The political consequences of the mental load	3
Social media and hiring: a survey experiment on discrimination based on online social class cues	3
Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: evidence from Sweden	3
Attitudes towards education spending when facing a fiscal trade-off: an analysis of stakeholders	3
Timing of citizenship acquisition and immigrants’ children educational outcomes: a family fixed-effects approach	3
Do parents suffer too? Children’s unemployment and their parents’ mental health in 12 European countries	3
Who Stays Involved? A Longitudinal Study on Adolescents’ Participation in Voluntary Associations in Germany	3
Children’s aspirations, their perceptions of parental aspirations, and parents’ factual aspirations—gaining insights into a complex world of interdependencies	3
Unstable employment careers and (quasi-)completed fertility: evidence from the labour market deregulation in Italy	3
Newcomers’ self-assessed visibility and their perceptions of discrimination. The case of Turks and Syrians in Germany	3
A liberalizing effect of happiness? The impact of improvements and deteriorations in different dimensions of subjective well-being on concerns about immigration	3
Does it matter where you’re from? Geographical variation in social mobility in Britain	3
Correction to: Explaining Ethnic Violence: On the Relevance of Geographic, Social, Economic, and Political Factors in Hate Crimes on Refugees	3
Does Your Class Give More than a Hint of Your Lifetime Earnings?: Assessing Indicators for Lifetime Earnings Over the Life Course for Sweden	3
How the educational level of confidants impacts our political attitudes?	3
Cultural capital, network resources, and occupational attainment: a panel study on the intragenerational conversion of cultural resources	3
Fairness of earnings in Europe: the consequences of unfair under- and overreward for life satisfaction	3
Ethnic preferences, opportunity structures, and the school segregation process	3
Response to: ‘Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality’: a comment on the formal model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger	3
Cohort changes in the association between parental divorce and children’s education: A long-term perspective on the institutionalization hypothesis	3
Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019	3
Kinship, heritage, and ethnic choice: ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland	3
Prosocial environments promote individual success: evidence from a school network panel study	3
Exploring integration and migration dynamics: the research potentials of a large-scale longitudinal household study of refugees in Germany	3
Succeeding without belonging? A double comparison of migrants’ socio-economic attainment and national belonging across origin and residence countries	3
Transformed ‘postmodern’ life courses? Continuity and change in young adults’ labour market trajectories in Norway	3