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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

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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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Retention in the early STEM career: The role of gendered intentions and first STEM employment

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103161

Rachel Karen , Rui Jie Peng , Jennifer Glass

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Diverse representation in entertainment awards and racial inequality beliefs

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103159

Rio Ikeuchi

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Career types and labor market structure: Intragenerational mobility in the United States

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103153

Arne L. Kalleberg , Ted Mouw , Michael A. Schultz

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Extending the strategic adaptation framework: The children of immigrants’ pursuit of postsecondary STEM education

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103157

Samuel H. Fishman, Jerry Z. Park, Michael Ervin

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Adolescent gender beliefs in India: Does mothers' empowerment matter?

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-03-01 Epub Date: 2024-12-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103132

Hope Xu Yan, Feinian Chen

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How do rights revolutions occur? Free speech and the First Amendment

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103155

Daniel L. Chen , Susan Yeh

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Parental self-evaluations by gender and social class: Shared parenting ideals, male breadwinner norms, and mothers’ higher evaluation standards

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103156

Patrick Ishizuka

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Occupations in space: Using individual mobility patterns to reveal the latent dimensions of the occupational structure

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103154

Johan Westerman , Charlotta Magnusson

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