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Yu Xie
Affiliated Programs:
Quantitative Methodology Program (QMP)
Funded Research:
Chinese Family Panel Studies (Peking University)
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Social and Behavioral Sciences (NINR)
Modeling Individual-level Heterogeneity in Research on Racial Residential Segregation (PSC Initiatives Fund)
Research Training in Population Health in China and South Africa (Fogarty)
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
Social, Economic, and Demographic Factors Affecting the Scientific Labor Force (Sloan)
Study of Muslim Families in Gansu, China (Weinberg Endowment Fund)
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
Dr. Xie studies social stratification and social mobility. His recent research is on factors related to recruitment into scientific professions. His other research interests include statistical methods and demographic techniques. He teaches courses on methods and statistics.
Recent Publications
Books
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
Xie, Yu, Arland Thornton, Guangzhou Wang, and Qing Lai. Forthcoming. "Societal Projection: Beliefs Concerning the Relationship between Development and Inequality in China." Social Science Research. NIHMSID: NIHMS369809. DOI.
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. Forthcoming. "Knowledge and Beliefs about National Development and Developmental Hierarchies: the Viewpoints of Ordinary People in Thirteen Countries." Social Science Research. NIHMSID: NIHMS368187. DOI.
Xie, Yu, Jennie Brand, and Ben Jann. Forthcoming. "Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data." Sociological Methodology. NIHMSID: NIHMS341345.
Thornton, Arland, Georgina Binstock, Kathryn M. Yount, Mohammad Abbasi-Shavazi, Dirgha Ghimire, and Yu Xie. 2012. "International Fertility Change: New Data and Insights from the Developmental Idealism Framework." Demography, 49(2): 677-698. PMCID: PMC3328099. DOI. Abstract.
Xie, Yu. 2011. "Evidence-Based Research on China A Historical Imperative." Chinese Sociological Review, 44(1): 14-25. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.
Yu, Jia, and Yu Xie. 2011. "The Varying Display of "Gender Display" A Comparative Study of Mainland China and Taiwan." Chinese Sociological Review, 44(2): 5-30. DOI. Abstract. Local Access.