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Arline Geronimus wins Excellence in Research Award from School of Public Health
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Yu Xie
Affiliated Programs:
Quantitative Methodology Program (QMP)
Funded Research:
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Modeling Individual-level Heterogeneity in Research on Racial Residential Segregation (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Social, Economic, and Demographic Factors Affecting the Scientific Labor Force (Sloan)
Chinese Family Panel Studies (Peking University)
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Social and Behavioral Sciences (NINR)
Research Training in Population Health in China and South Africa (Fogarty)
Research Professor, Population Studies Center.
Professor, Sociology.
Professor, Statistics.
Research Professor, Survey Research Center.
Faculty Associate, Center for Chinese Studies.
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
STEM
Recent Publications
Books
Xie, Yu, and Alexandra Achen Killewald. 2012. Is American Science in Decline? Boston: Harvard University Press. Abstract.
Thornton, Arland, William Axinn, and Yu Xie. 2007. Marriage and Cohabitation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Abstract.
Scott, Jacqueline L., and Yu Xie. 2005. Quantitative Social Science. London: Sage.
Xie, Yu, and Kimberly Goyette. 2004. A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans. Russell Sage and Population Reference Bureau. Abstract.
Xie, Yu, and Kimberlee A. Shauman. 2003. Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes. Boston, MA : Harvard University Press. Abstract.
Journal Articles
Cheng, Siwei, and Yu Xie. Forthcoming. "Structural effect of size on interracial friendship." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI.
Zhang, Chunni, and Yu Xie. Forthcoming. "Place of origin and labor market outcomes among migrant workers in urban China." Urban Studies. NIHMSID: NIHMS437924.
Xie, Yu, and Alexandra Achen Killewald. Forthcoming. "Intergenerational occupational mobility in Britain and the U.S. since 1850: Comment." American Economic Review. NIHMSID: NIHMS440166.
Zhou, Xiang, and Yu Xie. Forthcoming. "Propensity-Score-Based Methods versus MTE-Based Methods in Causal Inference: Identification, Estimation, and Application." Sociological Methods and Research. NIHMSID: NIHMS418236.
Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha Ghimire, Arjan Gjonca, Attila Melegh, Colter Mitchell, Mansoor Moaddel, Yu Xie, Li-Shou Yang, Linda Young-DeMarco, and Kathryn Yount. 2012. "Knowledge and Beliefs about National Development and Developmental Hierarchies: the Viewpoints of Ordinary People in Thirteen Countries." Social Science Research, 41(5): 1053-1068. PMCID: PMC3462366. DOI. Abstract.
Current PSC Trainees:
Siwei Cheng, Qing Lai, Airan Liu, Zheng Mu, Christopher Near, Xiang Zhou.