Social Science Research 52

Social Science Research, July 2016: Volume 52

Enclaves of opportunity or “ghettos of last resort?” Assessing the effects of immigrant segregation on violent crime rates
Ben Feldmeyer, Casey T. Harris, Jennifer Scroggins

Paternal incarceration and child-reported behavioral functioning at age 9
Anna R. Haskins

Why has medicine expanded? The role of consumers
Hui Zheng

A propensity score matching analysis of the relationship between victim sex and capital juror decision-making in North Carolina
Wesley G. Jennings, Tara N. Richards, M. Dwayne Smith, Beth Bjerregaard, Sondra J. Fogel

Social context and sexual intercourse among first-year students at selective colleges and universities in the United States
Jeremy E. Uecker

Effects of relationship duration, cohabitation, and marriage on the frequency of intercourse in couples: Findings from German panel data
Jette Schroder, Claudia Schmiedeberg

What drives the gender gap in charitable giving? Lower empathy leads men to give less to poverty relief
Robb Willer, Christopher Wimer, Lindsay A. Owens

Why bother with testing? The validity of immigrants’ self-assessed language proficiency
Aileen Edele, Julian Seuring, Cornelia Kristen, Petra Stanat

Contextual influence on condom use in commercial sex venues: A multi-level analysis among female sex workers and gatekeepers in Guangxi, China
Yiyun Chen, Xiaoming Li, Zhiyong Shen, Yuejiao Zhou, Zhenzhu Tang, Tania B. Huedo-Medina

English, Spanish and ethno-racial receptivity in a new destination: A case study of Dominican immigrants in Reading, PA
R.S. Oropesa

Legislative responses to wrongful conviction: Do partisan principals and advocacy efforts influence state-level criminal justice policy?
Stephanie L. Kent, Jason T. Carmichael

Does it pay to attend a for-profit college? Vertical and horizontal stratification in higher education
Patrick Denice

Income inequality, distributive fairness and political trust in Latin America
Sonja Zmerli, Juan Carlos Castillo

A natural experiment of peer influences on youth alcohol use
Guang Guo, Yi Li, Craig Owen, Hongyu Wang, Greg J. Duncan

Gender and class housework inequalities in the era of outsourcing hiring domestic work in Spain
Pilar Gonalons-Pons

No place like home? Familism and Latino/a–white differences in college pathways
Sarah M. Ovink, Demetra Kalogrides

Does relative out-group size in neighborhoods drive down associational life of Whites in the U.S.? Testing constrict, conflict and contact theories
Michael Savelkoul, Miles Hewstone, Peer Scheepers, Dietlind Stolle

Income inequality and educational assortative mating: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study
David Monaghan

Relational skill assets and anti-immigrant sentiments
Naeyun Lee, Cheol-Sung Lee

Parent–child leisure activities and cultural capital in the United Kingdom: The gendered effects of education and social class
Pablo Gracia

Civic communities and urban violence
Jessica M. Doucet, Matthew R. Lee

How do we assign ourselves social status? A cross-cultural test of the cognitive averaging principle
Matthew A. Andersson

Do information, price, or morals influence ethical consumption? A natural field experiment and customer survey on the purchase of Fair Trade coffee
Veronika A. Andorfer, Ulf Liebe

Does residential mobility improve educational outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands
Carla Haelermans, Kristof De Witte

Clues of subjective social status among young adults
Francois Nielsen, J. Micah Roos, R.M. Combs

Asian children’s verbal development: A comparison of the United States and Australia
Kate H. Choi, Amy Hsin, Sara S. McLanahan

Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory
Andreas Hovermann, Eva M. Groß, Andreas Zick, Steven F. Messner

Nurture net of nature: Re-evaluating the role of shared environments in academic achievement and verbal intelligence
Jonathan Daw, Guang Guo, Kathie Mullan Harris

Walking ATMs and the immigration spillover effect: The link between Latino immigration and robbery victimization
Raymond E. Barranco, Edward S. Shihadeh

On the move: Incarceration, race, and residential mobility
Cody Warner

Field of study variation throughout the college pipeline and its effect on the earnings gap: Differences between ethnic and immigrant groups in Israel
Sigal Alon

Should we trust survey data? Assessing response simplification and data fabrication
Jorg Blasius, Victor Thiessen

Social interactions and college enrollment: A combined school fixed effects/instrumental variables approach
Jason M. Fletcher

Training in two-tier labor markets: The role of job match quality
Yusuf Emre Akgunduz, Thomas van Huizen

Selling students short: Racial differences in teachers’ evaluations of high, average, and low performing students
Yasmiyn Irizarry

Her earnings: Exploring variation in wives’ earning contributions across six major Asian groups and Whites
Veena S. Kulkarni

Explanations of changes in church attendance between 1970 and 2009
Erik van Ingen, Nienke Moor

The Consequences of Job Displacement for Health: Moderating Influences of Economic Conditions and Educational Attainment
Jessica Pearlman

Primary status, complementary status, and organizational survival in the U.S. venture capital industry
Matthew S. Bothner, Young-Kyu Kim, Wonjae Lee

Risk factors for family time burdens providing and arranging health care for children with special health care needs: Lessons from nonproportional odds models
Jane E. Miller, Colleen N. Nugent, Louise B. Russell

Measurement, methods, and divergent patterns: Reassessing the effects of same-sex parents
Simon Cheng, Brian Powell

Curricular policy as a collective effects problem: A distributional approach
Andrew M. Penner, Thurston Domina, Emily K. Penner, AnneMarie Conley

Unemployment scarring by gender: Human capital depreciation or stigmatization? Longitudinal evidence from the Netherlands, 1980–2000
Irma Mooi-Reci, Harry B. Ganzeboom

Small groups, contexts, and civic engagement: A multilevel analysis of United States Congregational Life Survey data
Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel Stroope

When children affect parents: Children’s academic performance and parental investment
Natasha Yurk Quadlin

Thinkers and feelers: Emotion and giving
Katie E. Corcoran

Losing confidence in medicine in an era of medical expansion?
Hui Zheng

“Double-dose” English as a strategy for improving adolescent literacy: Total effect and mediated effect through classroom peer ability change
Takako Nomi