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Explaining the attainment of the second-generation: When does parental relative education matter? Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Alessandro Ferrara, Renee Luthra
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Social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of long-term connectedness and cumulative inequality in later life Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Markus H. Schafer
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Analysis of the relationship between religion, abortion, and assisted reproductive technology: Insights into cross-national public opinion Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Amy Adamczyk, Brittany Suh, Lindsay Lerner
With advancement in reproductive technologies, public opinion regarding these procedures varies considerably across the world. While prominent public debates have focused on abortion, we know less about the factors shaping feelings regarding Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Both procedures challenge the idea that human life starts with conception – with the fertilization of an embryo. Using
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A new subjective well-being index using anchored best-worst scaling Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Paul F. Burke, John M. Rose, Simon Fifer, Daniel Masters, Stefan Kuegler, Ariana Cabrera
Subjective well-being (SWB) describes an individual's life evaluation. Direct elicitation methods for SWB via rating scales do not force individuals to trade-off among life domains, whilst best-worst scaling (BWS) approaches only provide relative measures. This paper instead offers a dual-response BWS task, where respondents nominate areas of most and least importance and satisfaction with respect
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Dyadic contagion in cognitive function: A nationally-representative longitudinal study of older U.S. couples Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Aniruddha Das
Later-life cognitive function is strongly influenced by one's environment. At this life stage, a partner's behaviors and attributes—including their own cognitive status—are a key environmental determinant. A recent “social allostasis” theory also yields specific predictions on patterns of mutual influence—or “contagion”—in cognitive function. Yet, no population representative studies have examined
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The development of racial wealth gaps in early adulthood Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Alexander Adames, Ellen Bryer
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Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Hui Zheng, Yao Lu, Man Yao
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A set-analytic approach to intersectionality Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Charles C. Ragin, Peer C. Fiss
In this paper, we propose a set-analytic approach to the study of intersectionality. Our approach builds on the intersectional view that combinations of attributes, such as , should be understood as qualitatively distinct states, not reducible to their component attributes. We show that interaction-based, quantitative approaches are not only inconsistent with the core assumptions of intersectionality
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Fake news virality: Relational niches and the diffusion of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Chen-Shuo Hong
This study explores why some fake news publishers are able to propagate misinformation while others receive little attention on social media. Using COVID-19 vaccine tweets as a case study, this study combined the relational niche framework with pooled and multilevel models that address the unobserved heterogeneity. The results showed that, as expected, ties to accounts with more followers were associated
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Occupations and careers within organizations: Do organizations facilitate unequal wage growth? Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Christoph Janietz
Recent research suggests that occupations and organizations intersect during the formation of wage inequality. Using administrative data from the Netherlands, I investigate whether workers who are employed in different occupations experience unequal wage growth when staying in an organization. Results reveal that workers in professional and managerial positions realize larger wage growth than workers
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Structure and agency in resistance to schooling: Class, race, and the reproduction of unequal outcomes Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Argun Saatcioglu
For low-income and marginalized racialized minority youth, declining prospects of mobility can undermine favorable attitudes toward schooling if adolescents anticipate limited utility in schooling. We find that adolescents' awareness of race and class inequality affects a complex set of attitudes toward schooling, and that these attitudes contribute to outcomes varying by race/ethnicity and class.
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An unlevel playing field: Immigrant assimilation and welfare utilization Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Yip-Ching Yu, Zina Nimeh
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Promoting men and women to management: Putting the glass escalator paradox in the establishment context Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Anne-Kathrin Kronberg, Anna Gerlach, Markus Gangl
Research around the “glass escalator” demonstrates that men receive promotions faster than women in women-dominated occupations. However, it remains unclear how overall establishment composition affects the glass escalator. We use German longitudinal linked employer-employee data (LIAB) between 2012 and 2019 to examine how occupational and establishment gender composition shape gender differences in
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Global liberalism, emerging illiberalism, and human rights, 1980 to 2018 Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Wade M. Cole, Evan Schofer, John W. Meyer
The international institutions established after 1945 enshrine and expand human rights norms. Recently, the global liberal order has been challenged by a variety of illiberal oppositions. We discuss how the trajectories of global liberalism and illiberal challenges may affect country human rights practices in both direct and diffuse ways. Hybrid panel regression models of human rights scores for 158
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Monotonic market change: How contracting/expanding Protestant markets impact the founding of American Protestant international ministries Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jared Bok
Ecological density dependence theory argues that organizational founding rates have an inverted U-shaped relationship with density (the number of organizations already present). This study develops this theory by showing how the “density dependent” curve is moderated by continually expanding/contracting opportunities among religious movement organizations. Using event-history analyses, I investigate
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Beyond intensive mothering: Racial/ethnic variation in maternal time with children Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Kei Nomaguchi, Melissa A. Milkie, Veena S. Kulkarni, Amira Allen
Despite substantial evidence that racial/ethnic minority communities exhibit distinct mothering practices, research on racial/ethnic differences in how mothers spend time with their children is scant. Using the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey ( = 44,372), this study documents variations in the amounts of childcare and copresent time spent in various activities with residential children aged 0–17
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Who is the majority group? Signaling majority group membership with name-based treatments in multilingual contexts: The case of Catalonia Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Mariña Fernández-Reino, Mathew J. Creighton
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes: Replicating and extending “Dohmen, Falk, Huffman and Sunde 2012” using genetically informed twin data Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Christoph Spörlein, Cornelia Kristen, Regine Schmidt
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Learning by parenting: How do mothers respond to their children's developmental declines? Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Alicia García-Sierra
Children's developmental processes are not always linear. During the childhood period, children usually experience ups and downs in their skills, and how parents respond to these changes can crucially condition the subsequent process of child development. This paper examines (1) how children's developmental declines impact the level of cognitive stimulation implemented by the mothers, and (2) whether
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Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children’s well-being and health Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Chris Hess, Gregg Colburn, Ryan Allen, Kyle Crowder
Housing affordability is a growing challenge for households in the United States and other developed countries. Prolonged exposure to housing cost burden can have damaging effects on households, and, in particular, children. These burdens can exacerbate parental stress, reduce investments in children and expose households to greater neighborhood disadvantage. In this study, we use national survey data
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Diversity, integration, and variability of intergenerational relationships in old age: New insights from personal network research Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Raffaele Vacca, Federico Bianchi
Relationships between family members from different generations have long been described as a source of solidarity and support in aging populations and, more recently, as a potential risk factor for COVID-19 contagion. Personal or egocentric network research offers a powerful kit of conceptual and methodological tools to study these relationships, but this has not yet been employed to its full potential
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Rally ‘round the flag effects are not for all: Trajectories of institutional trust among populist and non-populist voters Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Pasquale Colloca, Michele Roccato, Silvia Russo
Using the Consequences of COVID-19 (COCO) dataset (quota sample of the adult Italian population, surveyed seven times by email), we analysed the trend of trust in political (political parties, parliament and local administrations), (president of the Republic, judiciary and police) and international (the European Union and the United Nations) institutions from June 2019 to October 2022. Three latent
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Race, disadvantage, and violence: A spatial exploration of macrolevel covariates of police-involved homicides within and between US counties Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Kyle D. Maksuta, Yunhan Zhao, Tse-Chuan Yang
Efforts to explore the macrolevel determinants of police-involved homicides have expanded in recent years due in part to increased scrutiny and media attention to such events, and increased data availability of these events through crowdsourced databases. However, little empirical research has examined the spatial determinants of such events. The present study extends the extant macrolevel research
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Teacher's social desirability bias and Migrant students: A study on explicit and implicit prejudices with a list experiment Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 M. Constanza Ayala, Andrew Webb, Luis Maldonado, Andrea Canales, Eduardo Cascallar
Scholarly research has consistently shown that teachers present negative assessments of and attitudes toward migrant students. However, previous studies have not clearly addressed the distinction between implicit and explicit prejudices, or identified their underlying sources. This study identifies the explicit and implicit prejudices held by elementary and middle school teachers regarding the learning
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Transitioning to adulthood: Are conventional benchmarks as protective today as they were in the past? Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Christal Hamilton, Zachary Parolin, Jane Waldfogel, Christopher Wimer
More young adults in the United States are studying beyond high school and working full-time than in the past, yet young adults continue to have high poverty rates as they transition to adulthood. This study uses longitudinal data on two cohorts of young adults from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth to assess whether conventional benchmarks associated with economic success—gaining
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Can cognitive dissonance explain beliefs regarding meritocracy? Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 William Foley
Why do economically disadvantaged people often regard inequality as fair? The literature on deliberative justice suggests that people regard inequality as fair when it is proportional to inequality in effort or other inputs – i.e. when it is meritocratic. But in the real-world there is substantial uncertainty over the distribution of income and merit – so what compels disadvantaged people to legitimate
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The rise of online dating and racial homogamy in marriage Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sabino Kornrich, Blaine Robbins
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The effect of Covid-19 emergence on religiosity: Evidence from Singapore Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Radim Chvaja, Martin Murín, Dmitriy Vorobyev
How do people deal with events they cannot control? Religious beliefs and practices are common responses to uncontrollable situations. We analyzed the responses of Singaporeans surveyed between November 2019 and March 2020—just before and just after Covid-19 hit the region—to understand how the beliefs and actions of both religious and non-religious people were affected by the emergence of the previously
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The siren song of so-called evidence: Why the evidence for social ecology models is not as strong as we think Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Jingwen Zhong, Matthew E. Brashears
Ecological competition models from biology have been adopted for the study of a wide variety of social entities, including workplace organizations and voluntary associations.Despite their popularity, a number of fundamental challenges to these models have not been sufficiently recognized or addressed. As a result, it’s possible that some apparently supportive evidence for ecological competition is
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The impact of austerity on children: Uncovering effect heterogeneity by political, economic, and family factors in low- and middle-income countries Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Adel Daoud, Fredrik D. Johansson
Which children are most vulnerable when their government imposes austerity? Research tends to focus on either the political-economic level or the family level. Using a sample of nearly two million children in 67 countries, this study synthesizes theories from family sociology and political science to examine the heterogeneous effects on child poverty of economic shocks following the implementation
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The organization of ethnocultural attachments among second- generation Germans Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Sakeef M. Karim
Recent research suggests that two ethnocultural “identities”—such as ethnic identity or national identity—can be compatible (positively correlated) or in conflict (negatively correlated) within and across immigrant-origin groups. In the present article, I advance a more cognitively oriented framework for using correlational patterns to map how immigrant-origin people organize their attachments to a
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Time use patterns and household adversities: A lens to understand the construction of gender privilege among children and adolescents in India Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Kriti Vikram, Dibyasree Ganguly, Srinivas Goli
We investigate gender differences in time-use patterns in 1891 children and assess how time is reallocated in response to challenges faced by households in India. We use adaptations made within a household during adversities to understand how gender inequality in time use is produced and reinforced. Using three waves of the Young Lives Panel Survey (2009, 2013, and 2016), we find that boys spend significantly
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Sex differences in risk factors for mortality after release from prison Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Susan McNeeley, Valerie A. Clark, Grant Duwe
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Changing attitudes toward homosexuality in South Korea, 1996–2018 Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Zhiyong Lin, Jaein Lee
Women are often considered more liberal than men on controversial social issues, but gender gaps in sociopolitical attitudes across different age groups have not been fully explored. This study challenges the taken-for-granted gender differences in public attitudes toward homosexuality by examining both between-gender gaps and within-gender changes across the life course. Using data from five waves
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Marital status, State policy environment and Foregone healthcare of same-sex families during the COVID-19 period Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Jen-Hao Chen
Sexual minorities in the United States have often reported a higher likelihood of forgoing healthcare than heterosexuals, but whether this occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic remains underexplored. This study applies and extends the Andersen model to examine different-sex and same-sex families’ likelihood of forgoing healthcare during the pandemic using nationally representative data from the 2020
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On religious ambiguity: Childhood family religiosity and adult flourishing in a twin sample Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-11-26 Markus H. Schafer, Laura Upenieks
Ambiguity is an important notion in sociology, denoting situations where social actors and groups carry on without shared meaning. The current article applies this concept to the context of religiosity during people's upbringing, recognizing that multiple factors make family-level religion a complex experience. Indeed, though recent research portrays household religiosity in childhood as a sociocultural
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Academic culture beyond the individual: Group-level norms and college enrollment Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 John P. Bumpus, Angel L. Harris, Scott M. Lynch
Although many scholars have written about culture in schools and discuss culture as a group-level phenomenon, quantitative studies tend to empirically examine culture at the individual-level. This study presents a group-level conceptualization of academic culture known as cultural heterogeneity—the presence of a diverse array of competing and conflicting cultural models—to examine whether variation
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Under- or overexpansion of education? Trends in qualification mismatch in the United Kingdom and Germany, 1984–2017 Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-11-11 Jonas Wiedner
Prominent theoretical positions in sociology and labor economics disagree whether educational expansion has outstripped the demand for qualified labor (overexpansion), or whether economies face a skill shortage despite increases in education (underexpansion). Focusing on the United Kingdom and West Germany, two countries with dissimilar skill formation institutions, patterns of expansion, and labor
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Is football coming out? Anti-gay attitudes, social desirability, and pluralistic ignorance in amateur and professional football Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Georg Kanitsar, Katharina Pfaff
Past work consistently points to improved attitudes towards gay athletes and growing support for homosexuality, yet reports of a homophobic climate in amateur and professional football persist. Here, we explore two potential explanations for the prevalence of homophobia in football despite low levels of anti-gay attitudes: social desirability and pluralistic ignorance. We conduct an online survey among
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Cumulative Colorism in Criminal Courts Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Nick Petersen, Yader R. Lanuza, Marisa Omori
A growing literature documents skin color stratification in punishment, whereby darker-skinned individuals fare worse than their lighter-skinned counterparts. Virtually all of this research has focused on colorism operating through direct channels. Utilizing a novel dataset linking the mugshots and court records of 6931 felony defendants from Miami-Dade County (Florida) from 2012 to 2015, we show that
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Between ethnic diversity and immigration: Perceptions toward immigrants in a globalizing world Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Eunsoo Cho, Seulsam Lee, Chan S. Suh
This study examines how ethnic diversity and immigration at the national level influence individual perceptions toward immigrants in a cross-national context. Including both Western and non-Western countries, we specifically explore whether cumulative exposure to ethnic diversity and the current size of immigrants have dissimilar effects on individual perceptions. Results from multilevel regression
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Lost support, lost skills: Children's cognitive outcomes following grandparental death Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Michelle Sarah Livings, Emily Smith-Greenaway, Rachel Margolis, Ashton M. Verdery
Objective This study examines the implications of grandparental death for cognitive skills in middle childhood. Method This study uses data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (N = 2479) to estimate ordinary least squares regression models of the associations between grandparental death and subsequent cognitive skills among children in middle childhood. Results Experiencing a grandparental
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How did it get this way? Disentangling the sources of teacher quality gaps through agent-based modeling Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Dan Goldhaber, Matt Kasman, Vanessa Quince, Roddy Theobald, Malcolm Wolff
We develop a novel simulation methodology to study the extent to which three interrelated processes—teacher attrition from the state teaching workforce, teacher mobility between teaching positions, and teacher hiring for open positions—contribute to “teacher quality gaps” (TQGs) between students of color and other students in K–12 public schools. We apply this methodology to data from Washington State
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Teacher judgements and gender achievement gaps in primary education in England, Germany, and the US Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Melanie Olczyk, Sarah Gentrup, Thorsten Schneider, Anna Volodina, Valentina Perinetti Casoni, Elizabeth Washbrook, Sarah Jiyoon Kwon, Jane Waldfogel
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Workplace computerization and inequality in schedule control Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Eunjeong Paek
I investigate how computerization increases access to schedule control and widens the class disparity in access. I combine time-varying measurements of occupational-level computerization with individual-level data from the Current Population Survey (1991–2004) and the American Time Use Survey (2018). Results confirm that computerization is positively associated with schedule control, but this association
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Stability of dyadic exchange: Experimental evidence for the impact of shared group membership Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Zbigniew Karpiński, Adam Kęska, Dariusz Przybysz, John Skvoretz
Pair stability refers to the extent to which exchange occurs between the same actors over time. In a stable pair, actors know what to expect of one another and have a sense of predictability as to the outcome of the exchange. When actors are split into discrete groups, shared group membership contributes to formation of new ties and maintenance of existing ties due to the mechanism of attraction to
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Spatial segregation and voting behavior among Asian Americans in 2020 general election Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Yongjun Zhang
This article explores the link between residential segregation and political engagement among Asian American voters in New York City. Despite frequently being perceived as apolitical and concentrated in ethnic enclaves, Asian Americans constitute a diverse group. This paper investigates how multifaceted spatial isolation based on race, class, and partisan affiliation was associated with the likelihood
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Do moral intuitions influence judges’ sentencing decisions? A multilevel study of criminal court sentencing in Pennsylvania Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Eric Silver, Jeffery T. Ulmer, Jason R. Silver
The influence of judges' personal moral values on their sentencing decisions is of longstanding interest to researchers and the public. Few studies, however, have examined this influence empirically. Using a unique data set that combines a survey of 81 criminal court judges with archival data on their 40,385 criminal sentences over a 2-year period, and drawing on Moral Foundations Theory, we hypothesize
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Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-09-17 Joke Matthieu, Nino Junius
Internal political efficacy (IPE) is an important yet unequally distributed driver of political action. Following cultural sociological explanations for political disengagement, we study how students' political home environment reproduces inequalities in IPE and how citizenship education moderates this. We test whether citizenship education compensates, reproduces, or accelerates inequalities in IPE
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Gentrification, displacement, and academic achievement: A formal mediation analysis Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Francis A. Pearman, Lily Steyer
Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood has long been known to adversely affect children's academic achievement. Comparatively less is known about what happens to children's academic achievement when disadvantaged neighborhoods gentrify. This study uses data from a nationally representative sample of children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (n = 1,163) along with counterfactual methods and a
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Unions, democracy, and Trump: Deconstructing the COVID-19 vaccination crisis of 2021 Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Todd E. Vachon, Michael Wallace, Angran Li
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant challenges for U.S. workers, especially those in essential occupations. As most public health experts view vaccination as the only certain path to defeating the virus, this study examines how union membership, political participation, and support for Trump have affected adult vaccination rates. The analyses also explore how these interrelated factors intersect
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Religious affiliation and debt among U.S. households Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Tristen Clifton, Mackenzie Brewer, Laura Upenieks
Religion has been shown to have both a direct and indirect role in shaping personal values, especially pertaining to money and wealth accumulation. Existing research establishes a strong relationship between religious affiliation and wealth attainment. However, previous scholarship has largely ignored the link between religious affiliation and debt, an important yet overlooked indicator of total net
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Effects of absolute levels of neighbourhood ethnic diversity vs. changes in neighbourhood diversity on prejudice: Moderation by individual differences in personality Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Laura Silva, Franco Bonomi Bezzo, James Laurence, Katharina Schmid
This paper examines drivers of prejudicial attitudes among adults in the UK, focusing on the interaction between ethnic out-group size and personality traits. Leveraging data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS), we use two survey waves carried out in 2000 and 2008, just before and after the EU enlargement policy that drove a wave of immigration in the UK. We test the extent to which personality
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Differential sensitivity to adversity by income: Evidence from a study of Bereavement Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Tamkinat Rauf
Adverse life events are often understood as having negative consequences for mental health via objective hardships, which are worse for persons with less income. But adversity can also affect mental health via more subjective mechanisms, and here, it is possible that persons with higher income will exhibit greater psychological sensitivity to negative events, for various reasons. Drawing on multiple
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Distinguishing social mechanisms of membership adoption in emerging technology communities Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Qianyi Shi, Yongren Shi
Digital platforms that enable and foster associations and sharing among entrepreneurs and knowledge workers have become a vital part of the new knowledge economy, yet we know little about the new form of social organization of knowledge. This paper seeks to explore and evaluate two microscopic social mechanisms, namely network effect of recruitment and cultural affinity, that may produce knowledge
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Generosity during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of collective narcissism Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-08-03 ByeongHwa Choi, Yesola Kweon
This study analyzes how a novel psychological factor—collective narcissism—affects giving behavior to national and international charities during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that collective narcissists tended to keep more resources for themselves or national charities while giving less to international charities. In line with the group threat theory, this tendency is more pronounced in countries
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Earlier smartphone acquisition negatively impacts language proficiency, but only for heavy media users. Results from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-08-05 Tiziano Gerosa, Marco Gui
There is a growing debate about the proper age at which teens should be given permission to own a personal smartphone. While experts in different disciplines provide parents and educators with conflicting guidelines, the age of first smartphone acquisition is constantly decreasing and there is still limited evidence on the impact of anticipating the age of access on learning outcomes. Drawing on two-wave
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Adolescent friendship, cross-sexuality ties, and attitudes toward sexual minorities: A social network approach to intergroup contact Social Science Research (IF 2.617) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Cassie McMillan, Brandon Craig, Chaïm la Roi, René Veenstra
Social ties between members of in- and outgroups are theorized to reduce individual levels of prejudice. However, instances of intergroup contact are not isolated events; cross-group interactions are embedded in broader networks defined by various social processes that guide the formation and maintenance of interpersonal relationships. This project reconsiders the potential benefits of intergroup contact