Social Science Research 46

Social Science Research, July 2014: Volume 46

Did Hurricane Sandy influence the 2012 US presidential election?
Joshua Hart

Economic returns to occupational closure in the German skilled trades
Thijs Bol

Not just a man’s world: Women’s political leadership in the American labor movement
Andrew W. Martin

Measurement equivalence of the CES-D 8 depression-scale among the ageing population in eleven European countries
Sarah Missinne, Christophe Vandeviver, Sarah Van de Velde, Piet Bracke

The impact of international service on the development of volunteers’ intercultural relations
Benjamin J. Lough, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, Amanda Moore McBride, Xiaoling Xiang

Early-life social origins of later-life body weight: The role of socioeconomic status and health behaviors over the life course
Tetyana Pudrovska, Ellis Scott Logan, Aliza Richman

Housework, children, and women’s wages across racial–ethnic groups
Heather Macpherson Parrott

Public housing into private assets: Wealth creation in urban China
Andrew G. Walder, Xiaobin He

Are white evangelical Protestants lower class? A partial test of church-sect theory
Philip Schwadel

Men’s mobility into management from blue collar and white collar jobs: Race differences across the early work-career
George Wilson, David Maume

The conditional returns to origin-country human capital among Turkish and Moroccan immigrants in Belgium
Agnieszka Kanas, Frank van Tubergen

The relationship between incarceration and premature adult mortality: Gender specific evidence
Michael Massoglia, Paul-Philippe Pare, Jason Schnittker, Alain Gagnon

Declining segregation through the lens of neighborhood quality: Does middle-class and affluent status bring equality?
Samantha Friedman, Joseph Gibbons, Chris Galvan

Improving models of democracy: The example of lagged effects of economic development, education, and gender equality
Mikhail Balaev