Z Qian
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 44756 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Z Qian |
| PRENOMES | Z |
| SOBRENOME | Qian |
| ASSINATURA | QIAN Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5891-0806 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1962 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 24 |
Domestication and foreignization
Identifying the social mechanisms for multiracial-monoracial health disparities
The United States is witnessing rapid growth in multiracial populations, yet the social mechanisms producing health disparities between multiracial and monoracial groups remain poorly understood. Using the nationally representative Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (2001–2012, N = 4,363,547), we examine mental and physical health outcomes through self-reported measures of poor mental and physical health days, systematically investigating…
Immigration and Fertility in the United States
Declines in immigrant fertility from one generation to the next provide an indirect measure of immigrant assimilation. Post-2000 declines in US fertility nevertheless may mask substantial—and growing—heterogeneity, especially across racial and ethnic minorities and new immigrant groups. We apply data from the June Current Population Survey to document generation-to-generation differentials in cohort completed fertility (CCF) since 2000 among Amer…
Division of household labor in urban China
Relative Economic Position and Female Marriage Migration
Gender, union formation, and assortative mating among older women
Racial Pairings and Fertility
OBJECTIVE: Our overall goal is largely descriptive-to compare recent fertility patterns between racially endogamous and exogamous couples in the United States. Evidence of lower fertility among exogamous or interracial couples arguably provides indirect evidence of social distance and cultural and economic integration. BACKGROUND: The growth of interracial marriage and cohabitation has fueled the rise in biracial or mixed-race children. Fertility…
Hukou, marriage, and access to wealth in Shanghai
About two-fifths of the population in Shanghai, the largest city in China, are migrants. In order to live in Shanghai permanently, many migrants strive to gain Shanghai hukou because of its close connection to easier access to jobs, schools, social welfare, and other opportunities in Shanghai. In this paper, we use newly available data from the 2013 Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey. This survey sampled Shanghai residents bor…
Hukou Locality and Intermarriages in Two Chinese Cities
Transitions From Sexual Relationships Into Cohabitation and Beyond
Much research on cohabitation has focused on transitions from cohabitation to marriage or dissolution, but less is known about how rapidly women progress into cohabitation, what factors are associated with the tempo to shared living, and whether the timing into cohabitation is associated with subsequent marital transitions. We use data from the 2006–2013 National Survey of Family Growth to answer these questions among women whose most recent sexu…
Marriage Markets and Intermarriage
Drawing on data from the American Community Survey, we compare patterns of assortative mating in first marriages, remarriages, and mixed-order marriages. We identify a number of ascribed and achieved characteristics that are viewed as resources available for exchange, both as complements and substitutes. We apply conditional logit models to show how patterns of assortative mating among never-married and previously married persons are subject to l…
Divergent Pathways to Assimilation? Local Marriage Markets and Intermarriage Among U.S. Hispanics
The growing diversity of the U.S. population raises questions about integration among America's fastest growing minority population—Hispanics. The canonical view is that intermarriage with the native‐born White population represents a pathway to assimilation that varies over geographic space in response to uneven marital opportunities. Using data on past‐year marriage from the 2009–2014 American Community Survey, the authors demonstrate high rate…
Boundary Blurring? Racial Identification among the Children of Interracial Couples
This article uses data, pooled annually, from the 2008 to 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) to document (1) recent fertility patterns among interracially married couples and (2) the racial or ethnic identification of the children from interracial marriages. We find that a sizable minority of America's children from mixed-race marriages are identified by their parents as monoracial, which suggests that mixed-race children are seriously underrep…
Unemployment and the Transition From Separation to Divorce
Informal marital separation often quickly leads to divorce, but can become long-lasting, especially among disadvantaged populations. In this study, we focus on the timing of divorce after separating and examine how unemployment before or during separation affects this pivotal moment in the divorce process. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 Cohort ( N = 2,219), we track unemployment before and during separation and sh…
Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai
Previous research on Hukou-based stratification mostly focuses on Hukou-derived labor market outcomes, with growing attention paid to the role of Hukou locality (local vs. nonlocal) as an increasingly important agent of social stratification in urban China. Few studies have, however, examined how Hukou shapes the patterns of who marries whom in geographically-defined marriage markets, despite the far-reaching implications of assortative mating fo…
Wealth Inequality Among Immigrants
Gendered transitions to adulthood by college field of study in the United States
BACKGROUND: Field of study may influence the timing of transitions to the labor market, marriage, and parenthood among college graduates. Research to date has yet to study how field of study is associated with the interweaving of these transitions in the USA. OBJECTIVE: The current study examines gendered influences of college field of study on transitions to a series of adult roles, including full-time work, marriage, and parenthood. METHODS: We…
Wealth Inequality among New Immigrants
Much of the research on immigrants' economic well-being demonstrates a greater concentration of immigrants in or near poverty. A relatively new aspect of scholarly interest in immigrant economic well-being is wealth or net worth. We use assimilation theory and data from the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) to explore wealth inequality among immigrants and highlight how racial/ethnic realities in the United States provide differential opportunities and …
Does higher education expansion promote educational homogamy? Evidence from married couples of the post-80s generation in Shanghai, China
Assimilation paths of immigrant children
Modes of accommodation and adaptation may influence minority immigrants’ assimilation outcomes. Using census data from 1980, 1990, and 2000, we follow the Asian Indians and Filipinos who were 0–19 years old in 1980 and immigrated to the US in the 1970s. We apply cohort analysis to compare their educational attainment when they became 20–39 years old in 2000 with that of their parents in 1980 and 1990. Educational attainment, on average, was lower…
Educational homogamy and earnings inequality of married couples
Whom Do Immigrants Marry? Emerging Patterns of Intermarriage and Integration in the United States
We document patterns of intermarriage between immigrants and natives during a period of unprecedented growth in the size and diversity of America's foreign-born population. Roughly one in six U.S. marriages today involve immigrants and a large share includes U.S.-born partners. Ethno-racial background clearly shapes trajectories of immigrant social integration. White immigrants are far more likely than other groups to marry U.S.-born natives, mos…
Estimates and Meanings of Marital Separation
Marital separation is an informal transition that may precede or substitute for divorce. Various surveys collect data on marital separation, but the data have produced mixed estimates. The authors used data from the 1995 and 2006 waves of the National Survey of Family Growth (N = 2,216) and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 cohort (NLSY79; N = 1,990) to examine separations among women born between 1961 and 1965. In the National Surv…
Work, Family, and Gendered Happiness Among Married People in Urban China
Introduction to the Symposium of Manufacturing (Un)Happiness in East Asia
Social Boundaries and Marital Assimilation
Interracial/interethnic marriage in America is a barometer of racial/ethnic relations and intergroup social distance. Using data from the 5-percent Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1990 and 2000 censuses, we interpret trends in intermarriage in light of new assimilation theory, recent changes in racial classification, and rapid demographic changes in American society. Our results indicate that changes in marital assimilation have taken on momen…
Breaking the racial barriers
Using PUMS data from the 1980 and the 1990 U.S. Census, I apply log-linear models to examine interracial marriage among whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. Rarely, but increasingly between 1980 and 1990, interracial marriage of whites occurs most frequently with Asian Americans, followed by Hispanics, and then by African Americans. Interracial marriage tends to be educationally homogamous and the odds of interracial marriag…
Changes in American Marriage, 1972 to 1987
Les AA. etudient les changements concernant la propension au mariage selon l'âge et le niveau d'etudes des epouses potentielles. Les donnees relatives a la baisse du taux de mariage mettent en evidence l'importance de l'âge au mariage, en particulier chez les femmes jeunes
Marriage or dissolution? Union transitions among poor cohabiting women
The objective of this paper is to identify the incentives and barriers to marriage among cohabiting women, especially disadvantaged mothers who are targets of welfare reform. We use the newly released cohabitation data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979–2000), which tracks the partners of cohabiting women across survey waves. Our results support several conclusions. First, cohabiting unions are short-lived—about one-half end wit…
Changing Patterns of Interracial Marriage in a Multiracial Society
We use incidence data from the 1980 Census and 2008 American Community Survey to track recent trends in interracial marriage. Intermarriage with Whites increased rapidly among Blacks but stalled among Asians and American Indians. Black–White intermarriage increased threefold over 1980–2008, independent of changing socioeconomic status, suggesting declining social distance between Blacks and Whites. Marriages between the U.S.- and foreign-born pop…
Measuring Marital Assimilation
Serial Cohabitation and the Marital Life Course
Using cohort data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper tracks the experiences of serial cohabitors. Results indicate that only a minority of cohabiting women (about 15% - 20%) were involved in multiple cohabitations. Serial cohabitations were overrepresented among economically disadvantaged groups, especially those with low income and education. They also were less likely than single-instance cohabiting unions to end in marr…
Options
Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity ( Waters, 1990 ). What about children born to interracially married couples? Methods. I use 1990 Census data—the last census in which only one race could be chosen—to examine how African American‐white, Latino‐white, Asian American‐white, and American Indian‐white couples identify their children's race/et…
Changes in assortative mating
Data from the U.S. Census and Current Population Survey are used to examine trends in the propensity to marry or to cohabit by the age and educational attainment of potential partners. Marriage rates declined sharply across all age and educational combinations between 1970 and 1980 and declined more sharply for less-educated persons between 1980 and 1990. The rise in cohabitation compensated somewhat for the decline in marriage rates, but the com…
Asian American Interracial and Interethnic Marriages
Using the 1990 U.S. census data, we apply log-linear models to examine Asian Americans' interracial marriage with whites and interethnic marriages between Asian ethnic groups. Japanese and Filipino Americans are most likely to marry whites, followed by Chinese and Korean Americans. Southeast Asian and Asian Indian Americans are least likely to marry whites. We further explore how interracial marriage differs by couples' educational and nativity c…
Immigration and Intermarriage Among Hispanics
Rates of Hispanic intermarriage with whites declined for the first time during the 1990s. One hypothesis, which we test here, is that the recent influx of new immigrants has provided an expanding marriage market for Hispanics, reinforced cultural and ethnic identity, and slowed the process of marital assimilation. In this article, we use data from the March Current Population Survey (1995–2008) to identify generational differences in Hispanic‐whi…
Theory of Segmented Assimilation and the Adoption of Marijuana use and Delinquent Behavior by Asian Pacific Youth
This article examines the adoption of behaviors of the teen drug and delinquent subcultures among Asian Pacific youth within the framework of the theory of segmented assimilation. Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou's theory offers a new perspective to the question: Under what conditions are youth susceptible to marijuana use and delinquent behavior? In contrast to Milton Gordon's classic one-path theory, segmented assimilation theory looks to the immi…
Whom Do Immigrants Marry? Emerging Patterns of Intermarriage and Integration in the United States
We document patterns of intermarriage between immigrants and natives during a period of unprecedented growth in the size and diversity of America's foreign-born population. Roughly one in six U.S. marriages today involve immigrants and a large share includes U.S.-born partners. Ethno-racial background clearly shapes trajectories of immigrant social integration. White immigrants are far more likely than other groups to marry U.S.-born natives, mos…
Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects and Mate Selection
We apply marital search theory to examine whether out-of-wedlock childbearing affects mate selection patterns among American women. Using 1980–1995 CPS data, we apply probit models with selection to account for potential selection bias due to differences in “marriageability” between women in and not in unions. Compared to those without unmarried births, women with unmarried births are more likely to cohabit than to marry, and they are more likely…
Interracial and Intraracial Patterns of Mate Selection Among America's Diverse Black Populations
Despite recent immigration from Africa and the Caribbean, Blacks in America are still viewed as a monolith in many previous studies. In this paper, we use newly released 2000 census data to estimate log-linear models that highlight patterns of interracial and intraracial marriage and cohabitation among African Americans, West Indians, Africans, and Puerto Rican non-Whites, and their interracial marriage and cohabitation with Whites. Based on data…
Child Poverty Among Racial Minorities and Immigrants
Objective. This article examines the effects of changing family structure (including cohabitation) and maternal employment during the 1990s on child poverty rates across America's diverse racial and ethnic groups. Unlike most previous studies focused on broad pan‐ethnic groups, our analyses examine children distinguished by race/ethnicity, immigrant generation, and national origin (e.g., Mexican, Japanese, Middle Eastern, among others). Methods. …
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Educational Aspirations of High School Seniors
Using the second follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Study, we explore how human, financial, and social capital affect educational aspirations differently across racial/ethnic groups. While individual educational performance is important for all racial/ethnic groups, human and financial capital have stronger impact on educational aspirations for whites than for minorities. Asian-American students' aspirations are affected by human ca…
Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai
Previous research on Hukou-based stratification mostly focuses on Hukou-derived labor market outcomes, with growing attention paid to the role of Hukou locality (local vs. nonlocal) as an increasingly important agent of social stratification in urban China. Few studies have, however, examined how Hukou shapes the patterns of who marries whom in geographically-defined marriage markets, despite the far-reaching implications of assortative mating fo…
The gender divide in urban China
Chinese media labels highly educated, urban women who are still single in their late 20s as "leftover ladies". We investigate whether indeed highly educated women are less likely to marry than their less-educated counterparts, and how assortative mating pa
Latinos' mate selection
Work, Family, and Gendered Happiness Among Married People in Urban China
Marriage Markets and Intermarriage
Drawing on data from the American Community Survey, we compare patterns of assortative mating in first marriages, remarriages, and mixed-order marriages. We identify a number of ascribed and achieved characteristics that are viewed as resources available for exchange, both as complements and substitutes. We apply conditional logit models to show how patterns of assortative mating among never-married and previously married persons are subject to l…
Boundary Blurring? Racial Identification among the Children of Interracial Couples
This article uses data, pooled annually, from the 2008 to 2014 American Community Survey (ACS) to document (1) recent fertility patterns among interracially married couples and (2) the racial or ethnic identification of the children from interracial marriages. We find that a sizable minority of America's children from mixed-race marriages are identified by their parents as monoracial, which suggests that mixed-race children are seriously underrep…
Rethinking the Attitude-Achievement Paradox Among Blacks
Blacks offer positive responses to a wide range of survey questions gauging attitudes toward schooling, yet perform less well in school than do whites. The credibility of blacks' attitudes is a central issue among competing explanations for this paradox. In this article, the authors assess questions about the validity of blacks' pro-school attitudes with the National Education Longitudinal Study. Two findings prompted the authors to rethink the p…
Who Intermarries? Education, Nativity, Region, and Interracial Marriage, 1980 and 1990
This study examines interracial marriage among whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, using PUMS data from the 1980 and the 1990 censuses. The level of interracial marriage is related inversely to the size of the racial group and to the proportion of the racial group in each region. Demographic structure, however, does not fully explain the racial differences in interracial marriage. Hispanics and Asian Americans have higher l…
Changes in American Marriage, 1972 to 1987
Les AA. etudient les changements concernant la propension au mariage selon l'âge et le niveau d'etudes des epouses potentielles. Les donnees relatives a la baisse du taux de mariage mettent en evidence l'importance de l'âge au mariage, en particulier chez les femmes jeunes
Breaking the racial barriers
Using PUMS data from the 1980 and the 1990 U.S. Census, I apply log-linear models to examine interracial marriage among whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans. Rarely, but increasingly between 1980 and 1990, interracial marriage of whites occurs most frequently with Asian Americans, followed by Hispanics, and then by African Americans. Interracial marriage tends to be educationally homogamous and the odds of interracial marriag…
Ethnocultural Identity and Induced Abortion in Kazakstan
This study analyzes ethnic differences in induced abortion among ever-married women in Kazakstan, drawing on data from the 1995 Kazakstan Demographic and Health Survey. Instead of conventional ethnic markers, such as "Kazak" or "Russian," it focuses on more complex ethnocultural identities that combine ascribed ethnicity with language use. Because of the history of russification in Kazakstan, three ethnocultural groups are defined and compared--K…
Progression to Second Birth in China
This study determines the hazard ratios for determining second births in four rural counties in Hebei and Shandong provinces in China during 1992-93. The sample included 7946 women aged under 35 years in their first marriage who gave birth after 1980. 54% of first births were males. 20% had a second birth (49% in Huasheng county). The second birth sex ratio was 1.41 compared to 1.17 for first births. 34% of women with a first birth in Pangxie cou…
Changes in assortative mating
Data from the U.S. Census and Current Population Survey are used to examine trends in the propensity to marry or to cohabit by the age and educational attainment of potential partners. Marriage rates declined sharply across all age and educational combinations between 1970 and 1980 and declined more sharply for less-educated persons between 1980 and 1990. The rise in cohabitation compensated somewhat for the decline in marriage rates, but the com…
Family and Asian Students' Educational Performance
Although researchers have illustrated the fallacy of the model minority image affixed to Asian Americans (e.g., occupational attainment), few have investigated the specific variations that exist across Asian ethnic groups and how such differences may affect both personal and family outcomes. Using a sample of Asian American students from the 1992 wave of the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), the authors examine variation in educatio…
Who Intermarries? Education, Nativity, Region, and Interracial Marriage, 1980 and 1990
This study examines interracial marriage among whites, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, using PUMS data from the 1980 and the 1990 censuses. The level of interracial marriage is related inversely to the size of the racial group and to the proportion of the racial group in each region. Demographic structure, however, does not fully explain the racial differences in interracial marriage. Hispanics and Asian Americans have higher l…
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Educational Aspirations of High School Seniors
Using the second follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Study, we explore how human, financial, and social capital affect educational aspirations differently across racial/ethnic groups. While individual educational performance is important for all racial/ethnic groups, human and financial capital have stronger impact on educational aspirations for whites than for minorities. Asian-American students' aspirations are affected by human ca…
Social Control Theory as a Theory of Conformity
This study uses data from the Asian Student Drug Survey to examine the extent to which social control and peer cluster theories explain drug and alcohol use among students of various Asian American subgroups. The data suggest that drug and alcohol use differs significantly among the various subgroups. Pacific Islander and Filipino American youths have the highest rates, whereas Chinese American youths have the lowest rates of use. Among some ethn…
Asian American Interracial and Interethnic Marriages
Using the 1990 U.S. census data, we apply log-linear models to examine Asian Americans' interracial marriage with whites and interethnic marriages between Asian ethnic groups. Japanese and Filipino Americans are most likely to marry whites, followed by Chinese and Korean Americans. Southeast Asian and Asian Indian Americans are least likely to marry whites. We further explore how interracial marriage differs by couples' educational and nativity c…
Theory of Segmented Assimilation and the Adoption of Marijuana use and Delinquent Behavior by Asian Pacific Youth
This article examines the adoption of behaviors of the teen drug and delinquent subcultures among Asian Pacific youth within the framework of the theory of segmented assimilation. Alejandro Portes and Min Zhou's theory offers a new perspective to the question: Under what conditions are youth susceptible to marijuana use and delinquent behavior? In contrast to Milton Gordon's classic one-path theory, segmented assimilation theory looks to the immi…
Measuring Marital Assimilation
Race and social distance
Marital Timing and Marital Assimilation Variation and Change among European Americans between 1910 and 1980
Most studies of the intersection of marriage and ethnic assimilation focus on partner choice rather than marital timing as an indicator of immigrant adaptation. Yet whether or when immigrant groups assumed an “American” marriage pattern can shed light on the nature of immigrant adaptation, its pace, and completeness. The authors examine ethnic differences for European Americans in the marriage timing of select birth cohorts from 1850 through 1950…
Options
Objective. Whites of various European ethnic backgrounds usually have weak ethnic attachment and have options to identify their ethnic identity ( Waters, 1990 ). What about children born to interracially married couples? Methods. I use 1990 Census data—the last census in which only one race could be chosen—to examine how African American‐white, Latino‐white, Asian American‐white, and American Indian‐white couples identify their children's race/et…
Who Is White
Adaptation of a Political Bureaucracy to Economic and Institutional Change Under Socialism
In China, the transformation from a centrally planned economy to one dominated by market forces has been characterized by the devolution of authority from the center (Beijing) to localities. This is as true of the enormous state bureaucracy associated with the control of fertility as it is with the economic bureaucracies more often studied in transitional societies. Using observations from several field sites, the authors document how county-, to…
Latinos' mate selection
Child Poverty Among Racial Minorities and Immigrants
Objective. This article examines the effects of changing family structure (including cohabitation) and maternal employment during the 1990s on child poverty rates across America's diverse racial and ethnic groups. Unlike most previous studies focused on broad pan‐ethnic groups, our analyses examine children distinguished by race/ethnicity, immigrant generation, and national origin (e.g., Mexican, Japanese, Middle Eastern, among others). Methods. …
Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects and Mate Selection
We apply marital search theory to examine whether out-of-wedlock childbearing affects mate selection patterns among American women. Using 1980–1995 CPS data, we apply probit models with selection to account for potential selection bias due to differences in “marriageability” between women in and not in unions. Compared to those without unmarried births, women with unmarried births are more likely to cohabit than to marry, and they are more likely…
Beyond Gateway Cities
We used data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples to document poverty rates among native‐born and foreign‐born Mexicans living in the southwest and in new regions where many Mexican families have resettled. Our analysis focused on how changing patterns of employment have altered the risk of poverty among Mexican families and children. We demonstrate that the Mexican population dispersed widely throughout the United States during the 1…
Marriage or dissolution? Union transitions among poor cohabiting women
The objective of this paper is to identify the incentives and barriers to marriage among cohabiting women, especially disadvantaged mothers who are targets of welfare reform. We use the newly released cohabitation data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979–2000), which tracks the partners of cohabiting women across survey waves. Our results support several conclusions. First, cohabiting unions are short-lived—about one-half end wit…
Interracial and Intraracial Patterns of Mate Selection Among America's Diverse Black Populations
Despite recent immigration from Africa and the Caribbean, Blacks in America are still viewed as a monolith in many previous studies. In this paper, we use newly released 2000 census data to estimate log-linear models that highlight patterns of interracial and intraracial marriage and cohabitation among African Americans, West Indians, Africans, and Puerto Rican non-Whites, and their interracial marriage and cohabitation with Whites. Based on data…
Marital Assimilation Among Hispanics
Objective. We document intermarriage patterns between Hispanics and non‐Hispanic whites over the 1990 to 2000 period in 155 U.S. metropolitan areas and evaluate the effects of spatial, cultural, and economic assimilation on interdecade changes in intermarriage. We hypothesize that changes in Hispanic‐white intermarriage during the 1990s reflect changing spatial, cultural, and economic assimilation among U.S. Hispanics. Methods. We use data from t…
Social Boundaries and Marital Assimilation
Interracial/interethnic marriage in America is a barometer of racial/ethnic relations and intergroup social distance. Using data from the 5-percent Public Use Microdata Sample of the 1990 and 2000 censuses, we interpret trends in intermarriage in light of new assimilation theory, recent changes in racial classification, and rapid demographic changes in American society. Our results indicate that changes in marital assimilation have taken on momen…
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