✨Our final issue of 2025 is here to accompany you through the festive season with inspiring new research results by @NennstielR @A_Hudde @brueggemann_o @OlleFolke @johannarickne @HellriegelEmily @PatzinaAlex @MCollischon @CK_Spiess & many more! Read it at https://t.co/ZJ1kkhahql

🚨 Thrilled to share my new paper with @yueqian_soc just out in @ESR_news Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era, we examine how online banking shapes who holds the purse strings among UK couples: https://t.co/Rf1n5xkR5n

🚨New #OpenAccess Bringing economic & family sociology into the digital era @prof_yanghu & @yueqian_soc analyze longitudinal data from @usociety to reveal how the use of online banking reconfigures couples' money management and financial decision making: https://t.co/RQNMDFr8wh

🔥New #OpenAccess! Is inequality of educational opportunity on the rise? Drawing on population-wide register data on twins and siblings from Statistics Netherlands #M_Das #M_Nollet find no evidence of increasing inequality across cohorts born 1964–1997 🔓 https://t.co/mrJmgXC2UL

🚀New #OpenAccess! Using new data on the establishment of Norwegian colleges 1969–1992 linked to individual register data, #AF_Rogne #TK_Knutsen #J_Modalsli revisit the role of local access to higher education in shaping gendered educational outcomes! 🔓 https://t.co/IR8BjIYrVw

Does moving often as a child weaken social capital later in life? @Ricardo_val68 #M_Vacchiano find a more complex picture: childhood moves reduce place attachment, but can strengthen personal agency, supporting social capital in adulthood! 🔥 #OpenAccess: https://t.co/RcZ5secaCZ

📢 The integration paradox reconsidered! #F_vanTubergen shows that higher perceived discrimination is not driven by education alone! What matters is relative premigration education and status loss, pointing to education as a positional resource! ➡ https://t.co/SgvqiB8VFl

Does educational hypogamy promote gender equality—or does it reflect who selects into these unions? 🌟New #OpenAccess study by @NadiaSteiber #C_Siegert contrasts optimistic, pessimistic, and selection-based narratives of hypogamy within couples! 👉 https://t.co/9J1LYqQ3bH

How do institutions and social norms affect tax payment? #GL_Pasin #A_Szekely @squazzoni find that in low-quality institutions contexts, social norms can trigger vicious cycles of evasion—even when evasion is socially disapproved!! 🔥#OpenAccess ➡ https://t.co/Af8eANBGJH

Check out the latest article by Gianluca Pasin @CNRsocial_ former @LaStatale PhD student, Aron Szekely from @ucl and @squazzoni where they examine the role of social norms on #tax #behavior!

Happy to see this #experimental paper on #tax behaviour in @ESR_news. With a nationally representative survey and vignette experiment and an online behavioural exp in Italy, we show that social norms shape tax payments but also that context-specific institutional factors matter!

📢 New paper #OpenAccess Labour market insecurity matters beyond jobs! @vincentrramos_ @AnnBerrington show that unemployment, underemployment, and temporary work are all linked to higher parental co-residence, especially among advantaged young adults! ➡ https://t.co/BI8C561gOb

Does being altruistic pay off for success? #IJ_Raabe @ehlert_alex #R_Algesheimer #H_Rauhut say: Yes! But: indirectly! New evidence suggests that altruism pays off by embedding individuals in prosocial networks that support achievement! #OpenAccess 🔥 https://t.co/fo916EX3kM

Are family ideals in Southern Europe still “traditional”? 🚩New experimental evidence by @Arnstein_Aassve #A_Adserà @bastianelli_e @LetiMencarini reveals a far more modern picture, with Spain showing more postmodern ideals than Italy! #OpenAccess🔓at: https://t.co/ZmuBk612hw

❄️Editorial Office on holiday closure until January 4, 2026 included! Submissions via ScholarOne remain open just as usual, manuscript handling will resume in the second week of January! We wish you all a pleasant holiday season & look forward to reading your papers in 2026! ☃

🚩New experimental evidence #OpenAccess! #K_Kelley & @llhipp find striking asymmetries in how marital name choices are judged! Men who keep their surname are viewed as more committed to their jobs, while women who keep theirs gain no boost! 🔓Read it at: https://t.co/AxYvTmNupE

📢New paper out! @jciturras new study on 31 countries finds that: rising inequality isn’t just about money—it’s about who you know! Your friends might decide your politics, and segregated networks matter most in low-inequality societies! ➡ Read it at: https://t.co/XPtBMkHTda

🔥New #OpenAccess Do Increases in income inequality lead to polarization in perceived socioeconomic conflict? Using data on 26 countries @crismaromo #S_Bienstman #M_Gangl find rising inequality associated with widening class differences in perceptions! 🔓 https://t.co/HZFxB82Lkb

📢 New #OpenAccess! Why do some professors appear in the media far more than others? #RH_Heiberger @BasHofstra #S_Unger find both patterns of cumulative advantage & gender inequality, with men more likely to become “short-listed”! ➡️ Read it ungated at: https://t.co/YcbURfSCNk

How far back do educational inequalities begin? Using administrative data #D_Shay @YossiShavit #I_Sasson shows that family income in the first 1000 days of life has a lasting impact on 5grade achievement: even stronger than later income! #OpenAccess ➡ https://t.co/zrGh23C4tA