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Criminal legal contact, labor market insecurity and labor market participation 刑事法律接触、劳动力市场不安全感与劳动力市场参与

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103321

Alexandra V. Nur , Holly Nguyen , Brandy R. Parker

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Educational attainment, gender, and the change in access to schedule flexibility in Europe and the United States 教育程度，性别，以及在欧洲和美国获得弹性工作时间的变化

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103309

Eunjeong Paek

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Why people perceive protest violence differently: A cross-national survey experiment in the US, Taiwan, and Hong Kong 为什么人们对抗议暴力的看法不同：一项在美国、台湾和香港进行的跨国调查实验

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103326

Yuan Hsiao , Lake Lui

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The rural-urban gap in educational inequality: Enhancement or compensation in genetic associations with educational attainment 教育不平等的城乡差距：受教育程度的遗传关联增强或补偿

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103324

Josué Teran Linarte, Christoph Spörlein

{"title":"The rural-urban gap in educational inequality: Enhancement or compensation in genetic associations with educational attainment","authors":"Josué Teran Linarte, Christoph Spörlein","doi":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103324","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103324","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>“While educational systems have expanded, regional and social disparities in attainment remain remarkably persistent. This study integrates social stratification research with behavioural genetics to examine how macro-level regional opportunity structures and micro-level family environments moderate the genetic influence on education. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and a Polygenic Index (PGI) for educational attainment, we test a Gene-by-Environment-by-Environment (GxExE) framework. Contrary to social enhancement and compensation models, our results indicate that genetic associations with education are stable across both rural/urban contexts and varying socioeconomic backgrounds. However, we find a significant interaction between family SES and urbanicity: urban environments amplify the advantages of high-SES families, whereas rural contexts appear to act as a “leveller” that constrains opportunities regardless of social background. These findings suggest that regional macro-structures do not moderate genetic associations directly but instead condition the efficacy of social and cultural capital. Our study underscores the necessity of incorporating macro-level institutional contexts into genetically informed models of inequality.”</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48338,"journal":{"name":"Social Science Research","volume":"135 ","pages":"Article 103324"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147421182","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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Directions for improving the policy relevance of inequality research: Lessons from social origin–specific health disparities 改进不平等研究的政策相关性的方向：来自特定社会起源的健康差异的教训

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103322

Fabian Kratz

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Harvesting inequality: How gender and indigeneity shape farmworker health 收获不平等：性别和土著如何影响农场工人的健康

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103320

Melissa Hurtado Nuez, Erick Samayoa , Christina J. Diaz

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Do geopolitical tensions increase negative attitudes toward minorities? Evidence from a natural experiment in India 地缘政治紧张加剧了对少数民族的负面态度吗？来自印度自然实验的证据

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103323

Andrew Francis-Tan, Nikhitha Mary Mathew, Chitra Pratap

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Workers, jobs, and how they are matched: A decomposition of US labor market trends in educational mismatch 工人、工作以及他们如何匹配：美国劳动力市场在教育不匹配方面的趋势分解

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2026.103311

Lina Tobler , Julia Leesch

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Regrets, she's had a few: Gender and regret of computer science and engineering degrees 她有过一些遗憾：性别和对计算机科学与工程学位的遗憾

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103298

Tom VanHeuvelen , Natasha Quadlin , Jordyn Wald

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The relevance of meritocratic beliefs for redistributive preferences increases with income 精英信仰与再分配偏好的相关性随着收入的增加而增加

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Social Science Research Pub Date : 2026-02-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103294

Irene Pañeda-Fernández , Jonne Kamphorst , Arnout van de Rijt , Balaraju Battu

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