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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The temporal dimension of parental employment: Temporary contracts, non-standard work schedules, and children’s education in Germany	50
Early Retirement and Social Class: A Health-Giving Choice for All?	43
The effect of school peers on residential mobility in young adulthood: evidence from Sweden	34
The female-breadwinner well-being ‘penalty’: differences by men’s (un)employment and country	32
What (wo)men want? Evidence from a factorial survey on preferred work hours in couples after childbirth	30
Words of change: The increase of gender-inclusive language in German media	24
Are female-dominated occupations a secure option? Occupational gender segregation, accompanied occupational characteristics, and the risk of becoming unemployed	22
Pathways to prosocial leadership: an online experiment on the effects of external subsidies and the relative price of giving	21
Intergenerational effects of parental unemployment on infant health: evidence from Swedish register data	20
Linked generations: child’s transition into unemployment and parents’ mental well-being	20
Where DESO Disappears: Spatial Inequality and Social Stratification at Labour Market Entry	19
Not all wealth is the same: types and levels of wealth and children’s university enrolment	19
Aleatoric governance: using lotteries to break the iron law of oligarchy	18
Parental unemployment and adolescents’ subjective wellbeing—the moderating role of educational policies	18
Maternal Stress and Pregnancy Outcomes Evidence from a Natural Experiment: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings	18
Hiring intentions at the intersection of gender, parenthood, and social status. A factorial survey experiment in the UK labour market	18
Erratum to: Socio-Economic Family Background and Adult Children’s Health in Germany: The Role of Intergenerational Transmission of Education	17
Grading Practices and the Social Gradient in GPA: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Sweden	16
Two faces of benefit generosity: comparing justice preferences in the access to and level of welfare benefits	16
What Drives Anti-Immigrant Sentiments Online? A Novel Approach Using Twitter	16
Rebel without a Cause: The Effects of Social Origins and Disposable Income on Rule Violations	16
Birth cohort changes in fertility ideals: evidence from repeated cross-sectional surveys in Finland	16
Targets of police attention. Discrimination in pedestrian stop-and-search of young people in Germany and France	16
Studying Youth’ Group Identities, Intergroup Relations, and Friendship Networks: The Friendship and Identity in School Data	16
Family Background, Educational Qualifications, and Labour Market Attainment: Evidence from Danish Siblings	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	15
Is ‘immigrant optimism’ in educational choice a problem? Ethnic gaps in Swedish upper secondary school completion	14
Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France	14
Manager’s gender, supervisory style, and employee’s perception of the demanding work climate	14
When Ethnicity and Gender Align: Classroom Composition, Friendship Segregation, and Collective Identities in European Schools	13
The polarization of real estate ownership and increasing wealth inequality in Spain	13
Why do gendered divisions of labour persist? Parental leave take-up among adoptive and biological parents	13
Do refugee children impair the academic performance of native children in the school? Informative null results from Danish Register Data	13
Taxed fairly? How differences in perception shape attitudes towards progressive taxation	13
The later the better? A novel approach to estimating the effect of school starting age on ADHD and academic skills	12
Correction to: Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	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	12
Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK	12
Does within-school between-class ability grouping harm the educational outcomes of socio-economically disadvantaged children? International evidence	11
Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Research Meets Household Panel Surveys: Research Potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel and Its Boost Sample of SGM Households	11
Socioeconomic Roots of Climate Change Denial and Uncertainty among the European Population	11
Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants	11
Quantile regression estimands and models: revisiting the motherhood wage penalty debate	11
Information intervention on long-term earnings prospects and the gender gap in major choice	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
Does forming a nuclear family increase religiosity? Longitudinal evidence from the British Household Panel Survey	10
Does Family Economic Strain Reduce Child Educational Achievement? A Longitudinal Assessment Using the Great Recession in Ireland	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
National High-Stakes Testing, Gender, and School Stress in Europe: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis	9
Radical right populism and the media: evidence from the supply side and demand side of political information in Germany	9
The intergenerational effect of educational expansion: evidence from a natural experiment in Spain	9
Correction to: A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	9
Mapping Changes in Attitudes towards Gays and Lesbians in Europe: An Application of Diffusion Theory	9
Swiss Job Market Monitor: A Rich Source of Demand-Side Micro Data of the Labour Market	9
Brittle bridges: ethnic segregation across and within civic organizations	9
Racial bias in media coverage: accounting for structural position and public interest	9
Social capital is associated with cooperation and indirect norm enforcement in the field: behavioural evidence from Switzerland	8
Women’s aversion to majors that (seemingly) require systemizing skills causes gendered field of study choice	8
Escaping one’s disadvantage? Neighbourhoods, socioeconomic origin and children’s adult life outcomes	8
Social inequality in admission chances for prestigious higher education programs in Germany: do application patterns matter?	8
Uncovering hidden opinions: social norms and the expression of xenophobic attitudes	8
Much to lose, no credentials to prove it – Educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees as means of occupational status re-attainment	8
The Missing Link: Network Influences on Class Divides in Political Attitudes	8
A Stall Only on the Surface? Working Hours and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap in Western Germany 1985–2014	7
Technological change, training, and within-firm wage inequality in Germany	7
The gendered impact of parenthood on job-related training participation in Germany and the United Kingdom	7
Collective Action and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Case of the Panama Papers Protest in Iceland	7
Integration of Recently Arrived Underage Refugees: Research Potential of the Study ReGES—Refugees in the German Educational System	7
Are Women in Hypogamous Unions More Depressed? A Cross-National Comparison among the Highly Educated	7
Marriage, the Risk of Overeducation, and Selection into Both: Evidence from Germany	6
Populist partner: the influence of partner characteristics on populist radical right voting	6
Gender, Unemployment, and Subjective Well-Being: Why Do Women Suffer Less from Unemployment than Men?	6
Couples’ Life Courses and Women’s Income in Later Life: A Multichannel Sequence Analysis of Linked Lives in Germany	6
Proximity to refugee accommodations does not affect locals’ attitudes toward refugees: evidence from Germany	6

Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s	6
Group boundaries in the Netherlands: how religion and ethnicity matter for social integration	6
Origins of attainment: do brother correlations in occupational status and income overlap?	6
Should I Learn or Should I Turn? Implications of Job Mobility for Subsequent Learning at Work	6
Gender Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from a Cross-National Harmonized Field Experiment	6
Correction to: Discrimination driven by variation in social and economic conservatism: evidence from a nationwide field experiment	6
Does information reduce interpersonal violence? Evidence from prisons	6
The air pollution disadvantage of immigrants in Germany: partly a matter of urbanity	6
Heterogeneity in parental time with children: trends by gender and education between 1961 and 2012 across 20 countries	6
A distaste for insecurity: job preferences of young people in the transition to adulthood	6
Correction to: The end of the golden age: on growing challenges for male workers and their partners to secure a family income	6
With a Little Help from My Peer Clique: Mitigating the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty	6
Not in a Class of One’s Own: Social Origin Differentials in Applying to Gender-(A)Typical Fields of Study across the Educational Hierarchy	6
Detraditionalization, mental illness reports, and mental health professional care use in Europe	5
Student ICT resources and intergenerational transmission of educational inequality: testing implications of a reproduction and mobility perspective	5
Correction to: Young adults’ labour market transitions and intergenerational support in Germany	5
Correction to: Following in the parents’ footsteps? Using sibling data to analyse the intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantage in Scotland	5
Environmental Inequality in Four European Cities: A Study Combining Household Survey and Geo-Referenced Data	5
How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	5
Grading in Hungarian Primary Schools: Mechanisms of Ethnic Discrimination against Roma Students	5
Discrimination unveiled: a field experiment on the barriers faced by Muslim women in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain	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
Stratifying cities: the effect of outdoor recreation areas on children’s well-being	5
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
Participation in formal adult education and family life—a gendered story	5
(Mis)Matched College Aspirations and Expectations: The Role of Social Background and Admission Barriers	5
Genetic Influences on Educational Achievement in Cross-National Perspective	5
A big (male) fish in a small pond? The gendered effect of relative ability on STEM aspirations under stereotype threat	5
Determinants of ethnic harassment among first- and second-generation immigrants in Europe	5
Correction to: How perceived daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment: experimental evidence from Germany	4
Children left behind. New evidence on the (adverse) impact of grade retention on educational careers	4
Newcomers’ self-assessed visibility and their perceptions of discrimination. The case of Turks and Syrians in Germany	4
Does the Local Presence of Asylum Seekers Affect Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers? Results from a Natural Experiment	4
Educational Selectivity and Immigrants’ Labour Market Performance in Europe	4
A liberalizing effect of happiness? The impact of improvements and deteriorations in different dimensions of subjective well-being on concerns about immigration	4
Unstable employment careers and (quasi-)completed fertility: evidence from the labour market deregulation in Italy	4
Unemployment, workplace socialization, and electoral participation: evidence from Sweden	4
Cross-Class Embeddedness through Family Ties and Support for Income Redistribution	4
Does it matter where you’re from? Geographical variation in social mobility in Britain	4
Cohort changes in the association between parental divorce and children’s education: A long-term perspective on the institutionalization hypothesis	4
Double standards? Co-authorship and gender bias in early-stage academic evaluations	4
Role of Cohort Size in Trends in Class and Occupational Returns to Education at First Job: The Case of Japan	4
Educational field, economic uncertainty, and fertility decline in Finland in 2010–2019	4
Response to: ‘Signals, Educational Decision-Making, and Inequality’: a comment on the formal model by Holm, Hjorth-Trolle, and Jæger	4
Wage Differences between Atypical and Standard Workers in European Countries: Moving beyond Average Effects	4
Social media and hiring: a survey experiment on discrimination based on online social class cues	4
Vocational education, general education, and on-the-job learning over the life cycle	4
Masked by the mean: immigrants in school and differential effects on student achievements	4
Transformed ‘postmodern’ life courses? Continuity and change in young adults’ labour market trajectories in Norway	3
The Effect of Photos and a Local-Sounding Name on Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities in Austria. A Field Experiment	3
Correction to: Explaining Ethnic Violence: On the Relevance of Geographic, Social, Economic, and Political Factors in Hate Crimes on Refugees	3
Timing of citizenship acquisition and immigrants’ children educational outcomes: a family fixed-effects approach	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
Social networks and distributive conflict: the class divide in social ties and attitudes to income inequality across 29 countries	3
Corrigendum to: Intergenerational Class Mobility of Labour Market Entrants in Germany and the UK since the 1950s	3
Who Stays Involved? A Longitudinal Study on Adolescents’ Participation in Voluntary Associations in Germany	3
Succeeding without belonging? A double comparison of migrants’ socio-economic attainment and national belonging across origin and residence countries	3
Cultural capital, network resources, and occupational attainment: a panel study on the intragenerational conversion of cultural resources	3
The Influx of Refugees and Temporal Change in Attitudes towards Asylum Seekers: A Cross-National Perspective	3
Fairness of earnings in Europe: the consequences of unfair under- and overreward for life satisfaction	3
Children’s aspirations, their perceptions of parental aspirations, and parents’ factual aspirations—gaining insights into a complex world of interdependencies	3
Kinship, heritage, and ethnic choice: ethnolinguistic registration across four generations in contemporary Finland	3
Do Grandfathers Matter for Occupational and Earnings Attainment? Evidence from Swedish Register Data	3
Are classrooms equalizers or amplifiers of inequality? A genetically informative investigation of educational performance	3
How the educational level of confidants impacts our political attitudes?	3
British Nationals’ Preferences Over Who Gets to Be a Citizen According to a Choice-Based Conjoint Experiment	3