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Citations
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World Ranking
5594
National Ranking
2649

Overview

Zhenchao Qian is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the social sciences. Their scholarly work spans fields such as sociology and political science, demography, gender studies, clinical psychology, and reproductive medicine.

The main topics addressed in Qian's research include family dynamics and relationships, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, migration and labor dynamics, demographic trends and gender preferences, racial and ethnic identity research, migration, health and trauma, and aspects of gender, labor, and family dynamics.

Qian's publication record includes papers in several academic journals. Notable recent papers authored by Qian include:

  • Racial Pairings and Fertility: Do Interracial Couples Have Fewer Children? (2021), published in the Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Relative Economic Position and Female Marriage Migration: Marrying Men in Taiwan Across Borders and Boundaries (2022), published in Population Research and Policy Review

Other papers from the dataset reflect collaborative research in related fields, such as:

  • Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women (2021), Social Science Research
  • Division of household labor in urban China: Couples' education pairing and co-residence with parents (2024), Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
  • Identifying the social mechanisms for multiracial-monoracial health disparities (2025), Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Frequent co-authors include researchers such as Daniel T. Lichter, Trevon D. Logan, Haoming Song, Xinyan Cao, and Yoonyoung Choi, with several joint publications reflecting interdisciplinary collaboration.

Qian's work appears in a variety of venues, with multiple publications in the RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Journal of Marriage and the Family, Social Science Research, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Best Publications

  • Social Boundaries and Marital Assimilation: Interpreting Trends in Racial and Ethnic Intermarriage

    Zhenchao Qian;Daniel T. Lichter

  • Breaking the racial barriers: Variations in interracial marriage between 1980 and 1990

    Zhenchao Qian

  • Changes in American marriage, 1972 to 1987: availability and forces of attraction by age and education

    Zhenchao Qian;Samuel H. Preston

  • Measuring Marital Assimilation: Intermarriage among Natives and Immigrants

    Zhenchao Qian;Daniel T. Lichter

  • MARRIAGE OR DISSOLUTION? UNION TRANSITIONS AMONG POOR COHABITING WOMEN*

    Daniel T. Lichter;Zhenchao Qian;Leanna M. Mellott

  • RACIAL/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS

    Zhenchao Qian;Sampson Lee Blair

  • Changing Patterns of Interracial Marriage in a Multiracial Society

    Zhenchao Qian;Daniel T. Lichter

  • Changes in assortative mating: the impact of age and education, 1970-1990.

    Zhenchao Qian

  • Serial Cohabitation and the Marital Life Course

    Daniel T. Lichter;Zhenchao Qian

  • Asian American Interracial and Interethnic Marriages: Differences by Education and Nativity

    Zhenchao Qian;Sampson Lee Blair;Stacey D. Ruf

  • Who Intermarries? Education, Nativity, Region, and Interracial Marriage, 1980 and 1990*

    Zhenchao Qian

  • Options: Racial/Ethnic Identification of Children of Intermarried Couples*

    Zhenchao Qian

  • Family and Asian Students' Educational Performance: A Consideration of Diversity

    Sampson Lee Blair;Zhenchao Qian

  • Obesity and Mortality Risk: New Findings From Body Mass Index Trajectories

    Hui Zheng;Dmitry Tumin;Zhenchao Qian

  • Rethinking the Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks

    Douglas B. Downey;James W. Ainsworth;Zhenchao Qian

  • Interracial and Intraracial Patterns of Mate Selection Among America’s Diverse Black Populations

    Christie D. Batson;Zhenchao Qian;Daniel T. Lichter

  • Beyond Gateway Cities: Economic Restructuring and Poverty Among Mexican Immigrant Families and Children*

    Martha L. Crowley;Daniel T. Lichter;Zhenchao Qian

  • The gender divide in urban China: Singlehood and assortative mating by age and education

    Yue Qian;Zhenchao Qian

  • Breaking the Last Taboo: Interracial Marriage in America:

    Zhenchao Qian

  • Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects and Mate Selection

    Zhenchao Qian;Daniel T. Lichter;Leanna M. Mellott

  • Child Poverty Among Racial Minorities and Immigrants: Explaining Trends and Differentials*

    Daniel T. Lichter;Zhenchao Qian;Martha L. Crowley

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel T. Lichter
Daniel T. Lichter Cornell University
Vincent J. Roscigno
Vincent J. Roscigno The Ohio State University
Randy Hodson
Randy Hodson The Ohio State University
Samuel H. Preston
Samuel H. Preston University of Pennsylvania
David Jacobs
David Jacobs The Ohio State University
Victor Agadjanian
Victor Agadjanian University of California, Los Angeles

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