OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of RSF-The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The Geography of Rural Educational Opportunity	23
Heterogeneous Household Change Among Children	20
Stepping In and Stepping Away: Variation in How Children Navigate Responsibilities Stemming from Paternal Incarceration	20
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	19
Changing Work, Changing Families, and Public Policies Toward Low-Income Families	19
A Qualitative Examination of Work, Families, and Schools in Low-Income Latinx Communities During Strict Immigration Enforcement	17
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Educational Attainment	13
Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children	12
Black Reparations in the United States, 2024: An Introduction	12
Who Is Black on the Block? Black Immigrants and Changing Black Neighborhoods	11
The Deepening Gender Divide in Credentials, 2000–2020: Continuity, Change, and Implications	11
Listening to the Voices of America	11
Stress and Mental Health: A Focus on COVID-19 and Racial Trauma Stress	11
Administrative Burdens in Child Welfare Systems	10
Gender Minority Status and Family Inequality in the United States	10
We Won’t Be Able to Find Jobs Here: How Growing Up in Rural America Shapes Decisions About Work	10
Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families	10
The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality	9
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	9
How Ethnoracial Groups Spend Their Time	9
Beyond the Penal Code: The Legal Capacity of Monetary Sanctions in the Corpus of California Law	9
The Earned Income Tax Credit, Family Complexity, and Children’s Living Arrangements	9
The “Damaged” State vs. the “Willful” Nonpayer: Pay-to-Stay and the Social Construction of Damage, Harm, and Moral Responsibility in a Rent-Seeking Society	9
The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and Their Families	9
Monetary Sanctions as Chronic and Acute Health Stressors: The Emotional Strain of People Who Owe Court Fines and Fees	8

Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	8
Little Boxes All the Same? Racial-Ethnic Segregation and Educational Inequality Across the Urban-Suburban Divide	8
Life-Course Transitions in Rural Residence and Old-Age Mortality in Iowa, 1930–2014	7
Motivated by Money? Class, Gender, Race, and Workers’ Accounts of Platform-Based Gig Work Participation	7
Do Federal Place-Based Policies Improve Economic Opportunity in Rural Communities?	7
Finding Integrated Schools? Latino Families Settle in Diverse Suburbs, 2000–2015	7
Catching Up and Coping in the COVID Economy	7
Administrative Burden in Federal Student Loan Repayment, and Socially Stratified Access to Income-Driven Repayment Plans	7
Moving Out to Move Up: Higher Education as a Mobility Pathway in the Rural South	7
The Political Implications of Economic Lives: Listening to AVP Respondents’ Perceptions of Efficacy	7
Rural Kids and Wealth	6
Studying the System of Monetary Sanctions	6
State Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health	6
Stolen Lives: Redress for Slavery’s and Jim Crow’s Ongoing Theft of Lifespan	6
Racial-Ethnic Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between an Early Elementary School ADHD Diagnosis and Later Child Well-Being	6
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Latino Immigrants	6
When Mamaw Becomes Mom: Social Capital and Kinship Family Formation amid the Rural Opioid Crisis	6
Sensemaking in the Legal System: A Comparative Case Study of Changes to Monetary Sanction Laws	6
Using Urban Renewal Records to Advance Reparative Justice	5
The Black Suburban Sort: Is Suburbanization Diversifying Blacks’ Racial Attitudes?	5
Protecting the Most Vulnerable: Policy Response and Eviction Filing Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
U.S. Trends in Job Stability by Sex, Race, and Ethnicity from 1996 to 2020	5
The Presentation of Self in Virtual Life: Disinformation Warnings and the Spread of Misinformation Regarding COVID-19	5
Getting Suburbs to Do Their Fair Share: Housing Exclusion and Local Response to State Interventions	4
Growing Up in Rural America	4
Remote Schooling and Mothers’ Employment During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Race, Education, and Marital Status	4
Do Consequences of Parental Job Displacement for Infant Health Vary Across Local Economic Contexts?	4
Why Reparations? Race and Public Opinion Toward Reparations	4
Politics Matter: How Political Experience Mitigates Learning Losses Caused by Natural Disasters	4
Politicizing Status Loss Among Trump Supporters in 2020	4
Rehearsals for Reparations	4
Fixing a Leaky U.S. Social Safety Net: Diapers, Policy, and Low-Income Families	4
Racial and Ethnic Status Distinctions and Discrimination: The Effects of Prior Contact and Group Interaction	3
Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes: Montgomery County, Maryland, and Fairfax County, Virginia, Between 1990 and 2010	3
The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality	3
No Calm Before the Storm: Low-Income Latina Immigrant and Citizen Mothers Before and After COVID-19	3
Intersectional Burdens: How Social Location Shapes Interactions with the Administrative State	3
Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation	3
The Politics of Expedience: Evanston, Illinois, and the Fight for Reparations	3
Pandemic Housing: The Role of Landlords, Social Networks, and Social Policy in Mitigating Housing Insecurity During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Do Perceptions of Privilege Enhance—or Impede—Perceptions of Intelligence? Evidence from a National Survey Experiment	3
Third-Party Brokers: How Administrative Burdens on Nonprofit Attorneys Worsen Immigrant Legal Inequality	3
Institutional Capacities, Partisan Divisions, and Federal Tensions in U.S. Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Disastrous Burdens: Hurricane Katrina, Federal Housing Assistance, and Well-Being	3
How Census Undercount Became a Civil Rights Issue and Why It Is Increasingly Important	3
Resisting Amnesia: Renewing and Expanding the Study of Suburban Inequality	3
Disparities in Access to Unemployment Insurance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from U.S. and California Claims Data	3
Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project	3
“Turning Their Back on Kids”: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities	2
Reinforcing the Web of Municipal Courts: Evidence and Implications Post-Ferguson	2

Administrative Burdens and Economic Insecurity Among Black, Latino, and White Families	2
Fiscal Fragility in Black Middle-Class Suburbia and Consequences for K–12 Schools and Other Public Services	2
Caregiving in a Crisis: Mothers’ Parenting Experiences and the Persistence of Class-Based Parenting During the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Public Assistance, Monetary Sanctions, and Financial Double-Dealing in America	2
Making Sense of Childcare Instability Among Families with Low Incomes: (Un)desired and (Un)planned Reasons for Changing Childcare Arrangements	2
Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation	2
Information Trust Falls: The Role of Social Networks and Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Suburbanites	2
Monetary Sanctions and Symbiotic Harms	2
Some Surviving, Others Thriving: Inequality in Loss and Coping During the Pandemic	2
Justice by Geography: The Role of Monetary Sanctions Across Communities	2
Status as Deference: Cultural Meaning as a Source of Occupational Behavior	1
Who Gets Accepted and Who Gets Rejected? Status in the Production of Social Science	1
Psychological Challenges and Social Supports That Shape the Pursuit of Socioeconomic Mobility	1
Misalignment of Housing Growth and Population Trends: Cohort Size and Lagging Measurements Through Recession and Recovery	1
The Wait List as Redistributive Policy: Access and Burdens in the Subsidized Childcare System	1
The Impact of Remote Hearing Policies on Racial Equity in Criminal Case Outcomes During the Pandemic	1
Life During COVID for Court-Involved People	1
“I Could Be Unemployed the Rest of the Year”: Unprecedented Times and the Challenges of “Making More”	1
Social, Resource, and Institution Disruptions and the Evolving Lives of Economically Vulnerable Older Adults: Implications for Policies and Programs in the New Normal	1
Localized Syndemic Assemblages: COVID-19, Substance Use Disorder, and Overdose Risk in Small-Town America	1
Introduction	1
Living with Children and Economic Disadvantage Among Seniors	1
Access to Early Care and Education in Rural Communities: Implications for Children’s School Readiness	1
“When Someone Cares About You, It’s Priceless”: Reducing Administrative Burdens and Boosting Housing Search Confidence to Increase Opportunity Moves for Voucher Holders	1
Institutional Entanglements: How Institutional Knots and Reverberating Consequences Burden Refugee Families	1
“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs	1
Multiple Meritocracies: A Text-Based Analysis of Personal Narratives Revealing Distinct Frames of Success	1
Suburbs, Inc.: Exploring Municipal Incorporation as a Mechanism of Racial and Economic Exclusion in Suburban Communities	1
The Effects of Administrative Burden on Program Equity and Performance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a Foreclosure Prevention Program	1
Limited Scopes of Repair: Black Reparations Strategies and the Constraints of Local Redress Policy	1
How Helping Can Reinforce or Attenuate Status Inequalities: The Case of Nonprofit Organizations	1
Monetary Sanctions and Housing Instability	1
Representative Voices: Native American Representation, Political Power, and COVID-19 in U.S. States	1
Inequality in the Origins and Experiences of Pain: What “Big (Qualitative) Data” Reveal About Social Suffering in the United States	1
Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs	1
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts	1