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{"title":"Dual language immersion programs and their neighborhoods: Issues of program access and representation within Los Angeles Unified School District","authors":"Sarah Asson ,&nbsp;Erica Frankenberg ,&nbsp;Clémence Darriet ,&nbsp;Lucrecia Santibañez ,&nbsp;Claudia Cervantes-Soon ,&nbsp;Francesca López","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103255","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>School segregation, which is tightly linked to residential segregation, is a pervasive problem across the United States. Two-way dual language immersion programs (TWDL)—specialized bilingual education programs that often act as school choice programs and are meant to serve both non-English language and English speakers—are increasingly recognized as one promising mechanism by which to create integrated learning environments. In this paper, we use quantitative and geospatial methods to study the potential of TWDL to overcome residential segregation and create diverse enrollments. We use unique geospatial data, including school attendance zones and students' census tracts of residence, to analyze the relationship between elementary TWDL program enrollments in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) and the composition of their neighborhoods. We find TWDL programs in LAUSD tend to be located in neighborhoods with high proportions of populations who can especially benefit from bilingual education, including racial groups associated with programs’ target languages, non-English speaking populations, and low-income populations. Programs enroll high proportions of students from the demographic groups living within their attendance zones, but they also act as school choice programs that enroll out-of-zone students from more traditionally advantaged groups, helping to make enrollments slightly more diverse. Our evidence suggests TWDL programs in LAUSD are acting as school choice mechanisms and are, to a modest extent, overcoming residential segregation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103255"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270749","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}

{"title":"Online social class cues and employability: Experimental evidence from Germany","authors":"Diana Roxana Galos ,&nbsp;Joris Frese","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103258","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103258","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social media platforms, such as Twitter or Instagram, offer easily accessible information – relevant or not – for employers when evaluating candidates for a position. In particular, they tend to be sources of information about individuals’ interests and leisure activities. Because interests are highly stratified by social class (e.g., engagement in highbrow and lowbrow activities), this represents a new way for class to potentially manifest itself in the hiring process. To study discrimination in hiring based on online social class cues, we conducted a pre-registered survey experiment in Germany with samples of employers and non-employers, manipulating job applicants’ class cues on social media (highbrow versus lowbrow). Overall, we found no difference in preferences for the candidates displaying highbrow and lowbrow activities on their social media profiles. However, this masks important differences in the specific activities proxying for class. When these activities have no relevance for the jobs in question, higher-class candidates are preferred. Exploratory analyses show that respondents are more likely to express positive sentiments toward the higher-class profiles, with highbrow activities being positively associated with work-related traits. Our findings highlight the need to consider how digital environments and, more specifically, online social class cues, may contribute to class bias in hiring.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103258"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145270750","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}

{"title":"Do state-funded “Alternatives to Abortion” programs reduce abortion rates? A longitudinal analysis","authors":"Darci K. Schmidgall","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103259","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103259","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During the era of federal protection of abortion rights in the U.S., many majority-conservative state governments sought to oppose abortion by implementing state-level strategies. I examine the impact of one such approach: tax-funded “Alternatives to Abortion” (A2A) programs, which ostensibly provide resources to support (/coerce) carrying a pregnancy to term. I use Meredith Worthen's Norm-Centered Stigma Theory (NCST), a sociological theory of deviance, to guide analysis of these programs, the sociopolitical environments in which they arise, and the potential effects of both on the reproductive decision making of state residents. I constructed a longitudinal panel dataset of state-level sociopolitical factors, including A2A programs, other abortion opposition policies, and annual abortion rates. Using hybrid linear regression, I estimated associations between states with and without programs as well as within states over time. Results show that A2A programs are significantly positively associated with abortion rates between states. Results regarding other abortion opposition policies (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) were mixed, with some TRAP laws being associated with a significant, positive <em>within-state</em> effect while others were negatively or non-significantly associated. These findings suggest that, rather than reducing abortion, moralistic state efforts like A2A programs may backfire. Through the lens of NCST, such strategies may reinforce narrow, moralized reproductive norms, potentially increasing stigmas around non-normative pregnancies, making abortion more compelling. I discuss how the positive association between A2A programs and abortion rates reflects social contexts shaping reproductive decisions, implications for abortion stigmatization, and theoretical ramifications of policies that aim to affect abortion rates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103259"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160405","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}

{"title":"Mob mentality: Social norms affect the approval and perceived morality of unjustified police violence","authors":"Kevin Kryston","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103253","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103253","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research indicates that people's responses to violence—and the way media portrays said violence—are influenced by intuitive moral judgments shaped by social cues that define right and wrong. Leveraging affective disposition theory (ADT) and social norms research, this study explored how group messaging, specifically the communication of social norms, affects perceptions of moral behavior in the context of police violence. In a preregistered experiment, participants read a news article about a police officer who was punished for unjustified violence, followed by social comments either supporting or opposing the punishment. Exposure to comments that opposed the punishment led readers to view the officer's violent actions more favorably and boosted perceptions of the officer's morality. Findings highlight how social cues influence approval of violence and moral appraisals, and are discussed in terms of their implications for media processing theories, civic discourse, and attitude formation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"133 ","pages":"Article 103253"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145160404","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}

{"title":"Arbitrage equilibrium in scale- and venue-mediated socioeconomic segregation: A behavioral microeconomics framework","authors":"Venkat Venkatasubramanian ,&nbsp;Jessica Shi ,&nbsp;Leo Goldman ,&nbsp;E.M. Arun Sankar ,&nbsp;Abhishek Sivaram","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103250","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103250","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Contrary to the widely believed hypothesis that larger, denser cities promote socioeconomic mixing, a recent study reports the opposite behavior, i.e. more segregation. We present a behavioral microeconomics framework that predicts such segregation in multiclass systems. In our framework, every agent tries to maximize its effective utility, a measure of its socioeconomic benefit–cost trade-offs, by making choices about where to live and socialize. Our effective utility model incorporates well-known behavioral elements, such as homophily, congestion costs, venue option benefit, competition costs, and exploration vs. exploitation strategies. We prove that a population of such socioeconomic agents will reach an arbitrage equilibrium under certain general conditions. We derive the mathematical conditions that lead to social segregation. Our theory presents a micro-to-macro mathematical framework that connects individual preferences to neighborhood-level outcomes.</div><div>Our key insight is that socioeconomic segregation mechanisms operate differently at different population densities. In low-density environments, agents accept more socioeconomic diversity due to reduced homophily benefits. In high-density environments, the abundance of people and choices enables finer-grained sorting by socioeconomic traits. Furthermore, the arbitrage equilibrium outcome implies the equality of effective utilities among all agents. This intriguing result could be interpreted as all agents being equally “happy” in their respective environments, despite segregation, in our ideal society. This captures the essence of Rawlsian distributive justice and fairness. Our theory contributes towards a deeper philosophical and mathematical understanding of socioeconomic dynamics and behavior as we strive to create more harmonious societies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 103250"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104719","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}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “The uneven effects of gender parity: Trends in gender homophily in scientific publications, 1980–2019” [Soc. Sci. Res. (2025) Volume 132/103228]","authors":"Margarita Torre ,&nbsp;Jesús A. Prieto-Alonso ,&nbsp;Iñaki Ucar","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 103249"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104718","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}

{"title":"Effects of local labor market conditions at birth on later life health and health behaviors","authors":"Nicardo McInnis ,&nbsp;Timothy Waidmann","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103252","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103252","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Context</h3><div>Social and economic conditions during childhood are linked with various outcomes in adulthood. Research shows that economic and health disparities arise early in life and get larger over time. However, little is known about the link between early life economic conditions and health during prime working ages.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>We examine the long-term effects of local labor market conditions from birth to age 5 on health and risky health behaviors at prime working ages. We measure health outcomes using binary indicators of very good or excellent general health, the presence of physical limitations, and obesity. We measure risky behaviors through smoking status and alcohol consumption, including excessive drinking. We construct two versions of the Bartik instrument using data from the County Business Pattern and the Census to measure economic conditions during early childhood and link the Bartik indices to data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. We then use multivariate ordinary least squares regression to estimate the association between labor market conditions in childhood and outcomes in adulthood.</div></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><div>We find that better economic conditions in early childhood improve health in adulthood and reduce risky health behaviors. We also find important differences by parental education as well as by individuals’ race and gender. Additionally, we examine several potential pathways through which economic conditions might affect health and find evidence of increased paternal income and labor supply as well as higher individual educational attainment and earnings.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Our findings highlight the importance of early childhood economic environments for long-term health and development. They point to the value of policies that support families with children during periods of economic hardship. This includes programs like Unemployment Insurance, which directly address labor market disruptions, as well as income support policies such as the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit, which can buffer the effects of reduced household resources. By mitigating the long-term consequences of adverse early-life conditions, such policies may improve not only health outcomes but also broader adult wellbeing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 103252"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104542","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}

{"title":"Homeownership and political participation: The case of Hong Kong","authors":"Jun Yin ,&nbsp;Jia Miao ,&nbsp;Xiaogang Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103257","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103257","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article investigates the impacts of homeownership on political participation in Hong Kong, using two waves of data from the Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics ([HKPSSD], 2015, 2017/2018). Probit regressions show that, compared with renters, homeowners are more likely to engage in both electoral voting and social protests. To address the potential selection bias of homeownership, we employ the lottery results under the Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) as an instrumental variable, and reveal that the results for electoral voting persist. However, no evidence suggests that homeownership increases the likelihood of participating in social protests. Mediation analysis further demonstrates that the association between homeownership and voting behavior is partially explained by residential stability and civic association ties. Our research contributes to understanding the social and political consequences of homeownership in in a unique institutional and cultural setting, which bears significant implications for housing policies to promote homeownership in Hong Kong and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 103257"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104541","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}

{"title":"Virtual charter students have worse labor market outcomes as young adults","authors":"Paul Y. Yoo ,&nbsp;Thurston Domina ,&nbsp;Andrew McEachin ,&nbsp;Leah Clark ,&nbsp;Hannah Hertenstein ,&nbsp;Andrew M. Penner","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103240","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103240","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Virtual charter schools are increasingly popular, yet there is little research on the long-term outcomes of virtual charter students. In this research note, we link statewide education records from 9th grade students in Oregon with information on criminal legal contact and IRS records containing earnings information housed at the U.S. Census Bureau to provide evidence on how virtual charter students fare as young adults. Virtual charter students have substantially worse high school graduation rates, college enrollment rates, bachelor's degree attainment, employment rates, and earnings than observationally similar students in traditional public schools, but similar rates of contact with the criminal legal system. Although there is growing demand for virtual charter schools, our results suggest that students who enroll in virtual charters may face negative long-term consequences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 103240"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104717","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}

{"title":"Credibility and/or anxiety - The moderators of political information on migration","authors":"Sandra N. Morgenstern","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103256","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103256","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the policy of migration information campaigns Western governments aim to influence perceptions on irregular migration in potential sending countries. While information campaigns are called the ‘ethical part’ of Western border politics, critical research literature questions their legitimacy due to anxiety-inducing messages, and the (lacking) credibility of Western implementers in the Global South. Drawing on dual-process theories from Psychology, and literature on credibility and emotions in politics, I expect that information provision moderated by anxiety and/or credibility are equally performing an information updating by enhancing the perception of the prevalence of irregular migration, but via different theoretical frames. To disentangle the independent and interdependent effects, I conducted a field experiment with two independent treatments in a real European migration information campaign reaching 2612 Nigerians. The overall information-effect results reveal an increased perception of irregular migration prevalence in ones surrounding, and a decrease in commonality of irregular migration when attributed to oneself. The moderators, credibility and anxiety, achieve similar levels per moderator and jointly but for distinct outcomes. If the credibility of the sender is assured, the perception of general topic prevalence is increased and only slightly changes the self-estimate, while anxiety-triggering enhances the self-attribution, i.e. own commonness of irregular migration and less so a general prevalence perception. The results support the two distinct paths of the theoretical dual-process framework. Additionally, by providing causal and multi-treatment evidence, this study contributes to a normative debate on the practical implementation of a migration policy, its purpose, and techniques in information transmission more broadly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"132 ","pages":"Article 103256"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145104540","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}