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70
Citations
25243
World Ranking
759
National Ranking
359

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Yu Xie is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the broad field of Social Sciences, with a focus on several key subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Demography, Education, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main research topics covered by Yu Xie include:

  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
  • Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies

Yu Xie has published in a variety of academic journals, with frequent venues including:

  • Chinese Journal of Sociology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Chinese Sociological Review
  • Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
  • China Population and Development Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Yu Xie include:

  • The influence of family background on educational expectations: a comparative study (2020, Chinese Sociological Review)
  • Economic growth, income inequality and life expectancy in China (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Recent trends in the Chinese family: National estimates from 1990 to 2010 (2021, Demographic Research)
  • Is there a Chinese pattern of the second demographic transition? (2022, China Population and Development Studies)
  • Heterogeneous returns to college over the life course (2021, Science Advances)

Frequent collaborators include Jia Yu, Junming Huang, Qian He, Xi Song, and Yue Qian.

Yu Xie has received several honors, such as being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes

    Yu Xie;Kimberlee A. Shauman

  • Income inequality in today's China.

    Yu Xie;Yu Xie;Xiang Zhou

  • Who Benefits Most from College?: Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education

    Jennie E. Brand;Yu Xie

  • Sex differences in research productivity : New evidence about an old puzzle

    Yu Xie;Kimberlee A. Shauman

  • Educational expectations of Asian American youths : Determinants and ethnic differences

    Kimberly Goyette;Yu Xie

  • Marriage and Family in East Asia: Continuity and Change

    James M. Raymo;Hyunjoon Park;Yu Xie;Wei Jun Jean Yeung

  • Regional Variation in Earnings Inequality in Reform-Era Urban China

    Yu Xie;Emily Hannum

  • THE LOG-MULTIPLICATIVE LAYER EFFECT MODEL FOR COMPARING MOBILITY TABLES*

    Yu Xie

  • An introduction to the China family panel studies (CFPS)

    Yu Xie;Jingwei Hu

  • Asian-Americans' earnings disadvantage reexamined: The role of place of education

    Zhen Zeng;Yu Xie

  • Explaining Asian Americans’ academic advantage over whites

    Amy Hsin;Yu Xie

  • Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data

    Yu Xie;Jennie E. Brand;Ben Jann

  • Marriage and Cohabitation

    Arland Thornton;William G. Axinn;Yu Xie

  • The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census

    Yu Xie;Kimberly Goyette

  • Economic Potential and Entry into Marriage and Cohabitation

    Yu Xie;James M. Raymo;Kimberly A. Goyette;Arland Thornton

  • Social mobility and the educational choices of Asian Americans

    Yu Xie;Kimberly Goyette

  • The sampling design of the China family panel studies (CFPS)

    Yu Xie;Ping Lu

  • BILINGUALISM AND THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF FIRST- AND SECOND-GENERATION ASIAN AMERICANS: ACCOMMODATION WITH OR WITHOUT ASSIMILATION?*

    Ted Mouw;Yu Xie

  • Does the market pay off? Earnings returns to education in Urban China

    Xiaogang Wu;Yu Xie

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  • The effects of grandparents on children's schooling: evidence from rural China.

    Zhen Zeng;Yu Xie;Yu Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Arland Thornton
Arland Thornton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
William G. Axinn
William G. Axinn University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kathryn M. Yount
Kathryn M. Yount Emory University
James M. Raymo
James M. Raymo Princeton University
David Cesarini
David Cesarini New York University
Thomas D. Cook
Thomas D. Cook University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian A. Nosek
Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science
Andy P. Field
Andy P. Field University of Sussex
Anthony G. Greenwald
Anthony G. Greenwald University of Washington
Zoltan Dienes
Zoltan Dienes University of Sussex

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