Climate Variability Shapes Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Abortion Exposure to climate variability is associated with pregnancy termination, yet no prior study has distinguished between induced and spontaneous termination. This study links reproductive calendar data to high-resolut
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Agentic Framework for Political Biography Extraction Producing large-scale political datasets demands extracting structured facts from unstructured sources, traditionally relying on expensive human experts and resisting at-scale automation. This paper develops and evaluates large
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Using GitHub Actions for Computational Communication Research Communication researchers increasingly use computational methods to collect and analyze large datasets. Part of the promise of these methods is their ability to increase the reproducibility and transparency of workflow
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To Move Home or Move On? Investigating the Impact of Recovery Aid on Migration Status as a Potential Tool for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Aftermath of Volcanic Eruptions in Merapi, Indonesia Disasters are associated strongly with forced migration. Indeed, migration is a standa
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The Effect of the Texas Migrant Busing Program on the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election William Scarborough, Ronald Kwon, David Brady
Sociological Science March 10, 2026
10.15195/v13.a11
From 2022 to 2024, Texas transported more than 100,000 migrants from the U.S.–Mexico border
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Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality Using the Distribution of Estates This paper studies the estimation of wealth distribution using estates left at death. We establish formal conditions for adopting a simplified version of the classic estate multiplier met
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Visual Constructions of Attractiveness as Cultural Indicators in Online Dating: Differentiation Across Locations, Gender, and Sexual Orientation This article examines patterned distributions of visual self-presentation in online dating across location, gender, as well asexuality,
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Summary report: Scoping the feasibility of a new longitudinal birth cohort study of children at risk of poor outcomes across the UK This project explored the feasibility of establishing a new UK-wide longitudinal birth
cohort study focused on enhanced recruitment and retention o
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Full report: Scoping the feasibility of a new longitudinal birth cohort study of children at risk of poor outcomes across the UK This project explored the feasibility of establishing a new UK-wide longitudinal birth
cohort study focused on children at risk of poor outcomes, parti
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Dynamics of Social Cohesion in Diverse Groups: A Wave-Interference Model of Social Processes This study develops a continuous structural model of group cohesion based on an interference framework. Whereas many influential approaches in diversity research focus on categorical subg
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Holding Labor to Ac(count): Quiet Quitting and the Limits of the Anti-Work Imaginary This article addresses debates over the emancipatory potential of counter-accounting by asking whether the co-optation of oppositional accounts signifies success or failure. It charts the interp
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Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game as a laboratory for re-imagining biodiversity governance Biodiversity loss is fundamentally driven by collective-action dilemmas, yet tools making these complex trade-offs tangible remain scarce. We introduce Pathbreak: A Biodiversit
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ENACTING CLIMATE ACTION IN DESTINATION GOVERNANCE: Effectual reasoning, intrapreneurial work, and enabling conditions We examine how sustainability managers in destinations enact climate action. Drawing on data from European destination managers, we analyse the interaction betwee
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A Monte Carlo Simulation Framework for University Enrollment Strategy Under Marketing Uncertainty Universities operate in increasingly uncertain financial and enrollment environments, yet evidence-based recruitment investment planning remains difficult because campaign-level data
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Initial Dividend and Institutional Cycles: A Unified Analytical Framework for Institutional Replacement Why do institutional replacements historically exhibit structurally similar patterns of rise and decline? This article proposes the concept of the "Initial Dividend" as the cor
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A Natural Lab for Issue Voting: Calibrated Multi-Party Vote Prediction from Large-Scale German VAA Issue Batteries Vote Advice Applications (VAAs) generate vast traces of political attitude data but only a subset of users self-annotate their intended vote, limiting downstream ana
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Narrative Architecture of Textual Invariance (ANIT): A Structural Model with Computational Verification This study proposes the formalization of a structural model entitled Narrative Architecture of Textual Invariance (ANIT), characterized by the complete reorganization of a lite
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Bright but Poor. Undermatching in Post-Secondary Education Educational undermatching identifies high school graduates who do not attend selective colleges even if they have high academic performance. To date, the study of undermatching is restricted to access to selective college
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A review of Circular Economy and the Construction Sector in Ireland: Barriers and Enablers for Circular Economy Adoption Without immediate intervention, global warming will have devastating consequences on the environment for future generations; as such, there is an urgent need t
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Wigglers and the Willing: A Within-Subject Analysis of Inequality Concerns People make pro-social choices, yet researchers still lack tools to quantify how much moral wiggle room individuals exploit or how strongly they trade off money against normative principles. We introduce
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Armed conflict accelerates degradation while enabling passive regeneration in forests, land and rivers of Nigeria's Lake Chad territory Environmental degradation in armed conflict zones is extensively documented worldwide. Yet gaps persist in disentangling the specific mechanisms
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Displacement and Transport-induced Gentrification: What about informal settlements benefiting from accessibility improvements? Transport-induced gentrification has been increasingly studied. Residential displacement is the primary concern underlying this. More recently, scholars
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Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions Sociological Methods & Research, Ahead of Print. Identities are fundamental to our understanding of social and political behavior, but are challenging to measure and are rarely observed in real-world sett
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Title IV-D Performance Incentives and Shared Parenting Outcomes: A Policy Analysis Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (1975) funds state child support enforcement through federal matching of administrative costs and performance incentives allocated from a capped national pool
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the United States Intergenerational educational mobility reflects a welfare state's ability to provide citizens with opportunities to climb the social ladder. Representing two distinct welfare state types, studies have con
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Strategic Recovery and Institutional Resilience in Digital Asset Exchanges: The Indodax Case Study and the S3-Resilience Model This study examines institutional resilience and strategic recovery dynamics of Indodax following a cyber security incident in September 2024. The resear
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Development and validation of the Circular Behaviours Scale: A measure of householder behaviours for a circular economy Moving towards a circular economy will require substantial behavioural change on the part of members of the public, as well as in business models. However, robu
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Using digital trace data to study public sentiment toward the police. A demonstration case on the George Floyd killing. In this paper, we assess a measurement approach to study sentiment toward the police using large-scale digital trace data and natural language processing (NLP).
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Trade Associations and Lobbying for Roads: Funding, Strategies, and Discourses The need for spending on roads and highways is largely unquestioned because the benefits of economic growth, reduced congestion, and increased jobs seem both self-evident and politically neutral. Yet,
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COVID-19 and the paradox effect of age in risk perception In the rapidly growing research on risk perception in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, little attention is paid so far to a frequently reported finding: older people estimate the risk of infection with the virus to be
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