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Crimmigration and the punishment of women: Evidence from Texas courts

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103163

Avery E. Warner

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Transit trade-offs: Public transportation difficulty, schedule variation, and school preferences

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-04-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103160

Julia Burdick-Will , Marc L. Stein

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What are we modeling? An evaluation of depressive symptom trajectory models from adolescence to early midlife in the Add Health cohort

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103176

Alexis C. Dennis

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Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103173

Juan J. Fernández , Amy Adamczyk

{"title":"Dimensions and clusters of abortion legal attitudes: A cross-national analysis of diverse nations","authors":"Juan J. Fernández , Amy Adamczyk","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103173","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103173","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The literature on abortion attitudes displays a clear dualism. Cross-national studies conceptualize these attitudes as unidimensional (higher vs lower tolerance). But country case-studies indicate that attitudes are more complicated than what a continuous (higher/lower) or categorical (pro-choice vs pro-life) differentiation may suggest. Cross-national studies thus likely understate the complexity of abortion views. Utilizing a unique cross-national database and confirmatory factor analysis, cluster analysis, and multivariate regressions, we fill this void. In our sample of 23 diverse nations, we find that respondents are more supportive when the mother's health is in danger and during earlier gestational stages, and they are less likely to punish the woman than the provider when it is illegal. We also show that women, better educated, richer, and more liberal people are more likely to support abortion across different dimensions in the cross-national context. These relationships are largely similar across different legal environments. Finally, we show that attitudes related to the various legal dimensions of abortion are best characterized as multi-dimensional.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 103173"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143715266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Suspended by association: Does vicarious suspension increase the odds of adolescent school discipline?

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103175

Daniel Trovato, Gregory M. Zimmerman

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Compensating or boosting genetic propensities? Gene-family socioeconomic status interactions by educational outcome selectivity

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174

Gaia Ghirardi , Fabrizio Bernardi

{"title":"Compensating or boosting genetic propensities? Gene-family socioeconomic status interactions by educational outcome selectivity","authors":"Gaia Ghirardi , Fabrizio Bernardi","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the extent to which the genetic propensity for education - measured using the polygenic index (PGI) for educational attainment – matters more for the final educational attainment of high or low socio-economic status (SES) students. We propose a model integrating social stratification theories, such as the compensatory and boosting advantage models, into sociogenomics, highlighting the role of educational outcome selectivity. Our model predicts that for low selective educational outcomes (e.g., high school completion), the PGI for education matters more for low-SES individuals, while for highly selective outcomes (e.g., graduate school completion), it matters more for high-SES individuals. We test our model using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, the Health and Retirement Study, and the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. The results corroborate our predictions and are robust to alternative models’ specifications. Our theoretical model based on the selectivity of the considered outcome explains previous heterogeneous findings and can be generalized to develop testable hypotheses for other cohorts in the US and other countries. It can also be generalized to other studies on compensatory and boosting advantage based on other traits and events and not on PGI.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 103174"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A real effort vs. standard public goods experiment: Asking for effort does make a difference

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103171

Tobias Schütze , Philipp C. Wichardt

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Sisterhood and credible narratives: Gender-based ingroup bias in the asylum courtroom

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103162

Diego Vaes , Samantha Bielen , Peter Grajzl

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Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103164

Marco Santacroce , Kieron Barclay

{"title":"Birth order and upper-secondary school track choice in Sweden: A mechanism for birth order inequality in educational attainment","authors":"Marco Santacroce , Kieron Barclay","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103164","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103164","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using Swedish register data, this study investigates the association between birth order and upper-secondary school track choice. A large body of research has shown that ordinal position within the sibling group matters for development trajectories and attainment processes. Researchers have also long been interested in the effects of secondary school tracking, showing that it can reinforce the effect of social origins. Using data for over 2 million pupils transitioning from compulsory to non-compulsory upper-secondary school from 1996 to 2019, and sibling fixed-effects, we find that later birth order is negatively associated with the probability of enrolling in university-preparatory academic tracks, known for having higher expected earnings and professional opportunities. These findings persist net of earlier educational performance, gender, parental education, or migration background. Later-born children are more likely to complete vocational programs. These findings shed light on some of the potential mechanisms driving the higher educational attainment, earnings, and employment stability of first- and earlier-born children, as they tend to complete secondary school tracks that provide greater future opportunities. The influence of birth order on completed years of education at age 30 diminishes by half when adjusting for track choices (i.e., secondary effects) and loses statistical significance when GPA (i.e., primary effects) is introduced as an additional control. While an unequivocal explanation for the origins of divergent tracking choices eludes us, existing literature suggests variation in parenting practices, child investments, and the familial environment contribute to these aspirational differences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"128 ","pages":"Article 103164"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143643235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Does volunteering reduce antidepressant use among older adults? Longitudinal register-based evidence from Denmark

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103172

Hans-Peter Y. Qvist , Jeevitha Yogachandiran Qvist , Dingeman Wiertz

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