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Hongwei Xu
Funded Research:
Residential Segregation and Locational Attainments among Migrants to Shanghai: A Spatial Perspective (Freedman)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center.
Ph.D., Brown University
Dr. Xu's substantive research interests include social demography, health inequalities, epidemiologic and nutrition transitions, child well-being, and residential segregation. His methodological research interests include Bayesian inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal and multilevel analysis, and survival analysis.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Luke, Nancy, and Hongwei Xu. 2013. "Exploring the meaning of context for health:Community influences on child health in South India." Demographic Research, 24(15): 345-374. DOI. Abstract.
Luke, Nancy, Hongwei Xu, Blessing Mberu, and Rachel Goldberg. 2012. "Migration Experience and Premarital Sexual Initiation in Urban Kenya: An Event History Analysis." Studies in family Planning, 43(2): 115-126. DOI. Abstract.
Xu, Hongwei, and Susan Short. 2011. "Health insurance coverage rates in 9 provinces in China doubled from 1997 to 2006, with a dramatic rural upswing." Health Affairs, 30(12): 2419-26. PMCID: PMC3302173. DOI. Abstract.
Logan, John, Seth Spielman, Hongwei Xu, and Philip Klein. 2011. "Identifying and Bounding Ethnic Neighborhoods." Urban Geography, 32(3): 334-359. DOI. Abstract.
Xu, Hongwei, Nancy Luke, and Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu. 2010. "Concurrent sexual partnerships among youth in urban Kenya: prevalence and partnership effects." Population Studies - A Journal of Demography, 64(3): 247-261. PMCID: PMC3366482. DOI. Abstract.
Logan, John, Weiwei Zhang, and Hongwei Xu. 2010. "Applying Spatial Thinking to Social Science Research." GeoJournal, 75(1): 15-27. PMCID: PMC2860748. DOI. Abstract.
Xu, Hongwei, and Elizabeth Minca. 2008. "How Chinese Children Spend Their Time." Applied Demography in the 21st Century, : 299-334. DOI. Abstract.