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Siwei Cheng
Funded Research:
Unequal Trajectories: Three Papers on Inequality over the Life Course (Weinberg Research)
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles.
Ph.D., University of Michigan
The life course trajectories of inequality; Work, occupation, and earnings inequality; Social networks in the social context; China.
Select Publications
Journal Articles
Cheng, Siwei. 2016. "The Accumulation of (Dis)advantage: The Intersection of Gender and Race in the Long-Term Wage Effect of Marriage." American Sociological Review, 81(1): 29-56. DOI. Abstract.
Xie, Yu, Siwei Cheng, and Xiang Zhou. 2015. "Assortative mating without assortative preference." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(19): 5974-5978. PMCID: PMC4434718. DOI. Abstract.
Cheng, Siwei. 2014. "A Life Course Trajectory Framework for Understanding the Intracohort Pattern of Wage Inequality." American Journal of Sociology, 120(3): 633-700. DOI. Abstract.
Cheng, Siwei, and Yu Xie. 2013. "Structural effect of size on interracial friendship." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(18): 7165-9. PMCID: PMC3645520. DOI. Abstract.
PSC Reports
Cheng, Siwei, and Yu Xie. 2012. "Size Matters: The Structural Effect on Social Relations." PSC Research Report No. 12-756. 3 2012. Abstract. PDF.