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  1. Feeding health inequality through platform-based food delivery in China

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  2. The “Model Minority” from Education to the Workplace

    Article • RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, June 2026, Russell Sage Foundation

    Professor Yu Xie

  3. Evaluating the statistical realism of LLM-generated social science data

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  4. Uncovering inequalities in new knowledge learning by large language models across different languages

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  5. What Makes a Desirable Spouse in China? New Evidence From a National Survey Experiment

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, July 2025, Wiley

    Professor Yu Xie

  6. Social Mobility as Causal Intervention

    Article • Sociological Methods & Research, April 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  7. Declining Chinese attitudes toward the United States amid COVID-19

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  8. Between reality and perception: the mediating effects of mass media on public opinion toward China

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yu Xie

  9. Arranged cohabitation among Chinese Muslims

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  10. Paying for the Prestige: Differences in College Investment between Asian American and White Families

    Article • Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  11. Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status

    Article • Sociological Methods & Research, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  12. Restoring culture and capital to cultural capital: origin–destination cultural distance and immigrant earnings in the United States

    Article • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yu Xie

  13. Trend Analysis with Pooled Data from Different Survey Series: The Latent Attitude Method

    Article • Sociological Methodology, September 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  14. Caught in the crossfire: Fears of Chinese–American scientists

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  15. Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China Over the Past Century

    Article • Demography, January 2023, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  16. The moral filter of patriotic prejudice: How Americans view Chinese in the COVID-19 era

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  17. A bamboo ceiling in the classroom?

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  18. The Impact of COVID-19 on Americans’ Attitudes toward China: Does Local Incidence Rate Matter?

    Article • Social Psychology Quarterly, February 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  19. Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  20. Heterogeneous returns to college over the life course

    Article • Science Advances, December 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Yu Xie

  21. Between reality and perception: the mediating effects of mass media on public opinion toward China

    Article • Chinese Sociological Review, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yu Xie

  22. Social-demographic correlates of mindset in China

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, September 2021, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  23. Recent trends in the Chinese family: National estimates from 1990 to 2010

    Article • Demographic Research, March 2021, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

    Professor Yu Xie

  24. A New Methodological Framework for Studying Status Exchange in Marriage

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, March 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  25. The influence of family background on educational expectations: a comparative study

    Article • Chinese Sociological Review, March 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yu Xie

  26. Long-term decline in intergenerational mobility in the United States since the 1850s

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yu Xie

  27. Market Transition, Industrialization, and Social Mobility Trends in Postrevolution China

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, May 2019, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  28. The influences of family background and structural factors on children’s academic performances: A cross-country comparative study

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, April 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  29. Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration

    Article • Demography, January 2019, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  30. Social determinants of household wealth and income in urban China

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, April 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  31. Introduction to Special Issue

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, October 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  32. Developmental idealism in China

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, October 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  33. Understanding inequality in China

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, July 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  34. Assessing the Effectiveness of Anchoring Vignettes in Bias Reduction for Socioeconomic Disparities in Self-rated Health among Chinese Adults

    Article • Sociological Methodology, June 2016, SAGE Publications

    Hongwei Xu, Professor Yu Xie

  35. The sampling design of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  36. Cohabitation in China: Trends and Determinants

    Article • Population and Development Review, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor Yu Xie

  37. Changes in the Determinants of Marriage Entry in Post-Reform Urban China

    Article • Demography, September 2015, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  38. Has smoking really declined in China?

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, May 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  39. Editor’s Comments

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  40. Between heaven and earth: Dual accountability in Han China

    Article • Chinese Journal of Sociology, March 2015, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  41. Gender and family

    Article • October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Yu Xie

  42. The Effects of Grandparents on Children’s Schooling: Evidence From Rural China

    Article • Demography, February 2014, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  43. Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data

    Article • Sociological Methodology, August 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  44. Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants

    Article • Demography, August 2011, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  45. Coresidence With Elderly Parents: A Comparative Study of Southeast China and Taiwan

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Yu Xie

  46. Do Sons or Daughters Give More Money to Parents in Urban China?

    Article • Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2009, Wiley

    Professor Yu Xie

  47. A Preference‐Opportunity‐Choice Framework with Applications to Intergroup Friendship

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, November 2008, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  48. Danwei Profitability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China

    Article • The China Quarterly, September 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  49. 11. Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects with Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes

    Article • Sociological Methodology, August 2007, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  50. Economic potential and entry into marriage and cohabitation

    Article • Demography, May 2003, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  51. Demography: Past, Present, and Future

    Article • Journal of the American Statistical Association, June 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yu Xie

  52. Educational Expectations of Asian American Youths: Determinants and Ethnic Differences

    Article • Sociology of Education, January 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Yu Xie

  53. Ethnic stratification in Northwest China: Occupational differences between Han Chinese and national minorities in Xinjiang, 1982–1990

    Article • Demography, August 1998, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  54. Comment: The Essential Tension between Parsimony and Accuracy

    Article • Sociological Methodology, August 1998, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  55. Geographic mobility of scientists: Sex differences and family constraints

    Article • Demography, November 1996, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  56. Identification Problems in the Social Sciences.Charles F. Manski

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, January 1996, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  57. Regional Variation in Earnings Inequality in Reform-Era Urban China

    Article • American Journal of Sociology, January 1996, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Yu Xie

  58. Log-Multiplicative Models for Discrete-Time, Discrete-Covariate Event-History Data

    Article • Sociological Methodology, January 1994, JSTOR

    Professor Yu Xie

  59. Scale Development: Theory and Applications.

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, November 1992, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  60. The Logit Model: An Introduction for Economists.

    Article • Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, May 1992, SAGE Publications

    Professor Yu Xie

  61. An Alternative Purging Method: Controlling the Composition-Dependent Interaction in an Analysis of Rates

    Article • Demography, November 1989, Duke University Press

    Professor Yu Xie