Fuhua Zhai
Biographic Data
| ID | 271746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fuhua Zhai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fuhua |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhai |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7201-5864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 248 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Education Gap, Employment, and Household Decision Making: A Latent Class Analysis Among Married Women in India
This study explores how education and employment influence household decision-making autonomy among married women in India. Using data from 72,170 women in the 2019–2021 Indian Demographic and Health Survey and latent class analysis, we identify three distinct household decision-making profiles: Egalitarian (66.65%), where decisions are made jointly; Conservative (18.85%), where men primarily make decisions; and Independent (14.49%), where women …
Neighborhood Environment, Cultural Orientation, and Parenting: Understanding the Intergenerational Conflict in Asian Immigrant Families
Intergenerational Continuity of Child Maltreatment in East Asian American Families: Roles of Parents' Beliefs in Physical Punishment and Social Support
This study used data from a sample of East Asian American families ( N = 604) to examine the intergenerational continuity of child maltreatment and the roles of parents' beliefs in physical punishment and perceived social support. After controlling for parent, child and household characteristics, parents' experience of childhood physical abuse was associated with elevated risk of all three types of maltreatment towards their own children (psychol…
The association between couples' education and gender gap in unpaid care work in India
This cross‐sectional study utilizes data from the 2019 India Time‐Use Survey to examine the relationship between education and the gender gap in unpaid care work among married couples in India. Results from the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression demonstrate a paradox where more educated or equally educated wives tend to spend more time on unpaid care work compared to their husbands. Women from marginalized backgrounds face a heightened burde…
Unpaid Care Work Time and Women’s Employment Status: Evidence from India
Using the first Indian 2019 Time Use Survey, we investigate the association between women’s time spent on unpaid care work (UCW) and their employment status and whether this association differs by socio-demographic characteristics such as age, marital status, education level and household size, controlling for religion, social group status, household monthly expenditure and geographical location (e.g. rural versus urban settings). Using multinomi…
Youth participation in community governance: A participatory design program in Beijing
This article presents an innovative youth participation program implemented in Beijing, highlighting how grassroots social work stations can effectively engage youth in community governance through a participatory design. The program offers a replicable model for social workers worldwide to enhance meaningful youth civic engagement and community improvement
Social and Emotional Supports During College Years: Associations with Post-college Outcomes Among Alumni of Foster Care
Youth participation in governance in China: The roles of perceived responsibility and political efficacy
Youth participation in governance goes beyond the scope of positive youth development and involves young people engaging in real‐world social governance. Drawing on a culturally sensitive review of policies related to youth participation, this study investigated the effect of subjective factors (i.e., perceived responsibility and political efficacy) on young adults' participation in governance in China. A subset of young adult ( N = 2396) was ext…
Income and Health in Predicting Older Adults' Social Capabilities in China: The Mediating Role of Social Engagement
Unpaid care work among women in South Asia: A systematic review
The specific aims of this systematic review are to (1) understand the prevalence and context for women's unpaid care work in South Asia, (2) explore factors that affect the prevalence of unpaid care work, and (3) identify gaps in the extant research on unpaid care work that influence women's lives. Using the Cochrane Handbook and PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews, we searched 18 databases and identified 13 research studies. Drawing on the …
Disparities in child cognitive skills by parental education in China: The roles of socio-demographics and parenting
Parenting stress and risks of child maltreatment among Asian immigrant parents: Does social support moderate the effects
Welfare Participation Reduced Severe Child Multidimensional Poverty in Rural China: Better Targeting Can Lead to Greater Poverty Reduction
Neighborhood Disorganization and Child-rearing Beliefs Toward Physical Punishment Among Asian American Parents: The Mediation Role of Parenting Stress
Previous studies have indicated that neighborhood disorganization affects child-rearing beliefs in the United States, but few studies have focused on such influences among Asian American parents. Largely due to Asian American parents' immigration experiences, neighborhood disorganization factors inevitably intersect with their traditional cultures, which may lead to different patterns in their parental beliefs. Using structural equation modeling,…
Parental stress and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
As the population of Chinese immigrants has been growing rapidly in the United States, it has been understudied on the parenting behaviours as well as the roles parental stress and social support playing in parenting in this group. This study investigated whether parental stress was associated with parenting and whether this relationship was mediated by social support in a sample of 255 Chinese immigrant parents from the Survey of Asian American …
Parental stress and children's school performance: Are locals doing better than rural‐to‐urban migrants in Beijing
This study provides the first empirical evidence on whether parental stress is associated with children's school performance (measured by academic performance and peer relations) for rural‐to‐urban migrants ( n = 499) and local residents ( n = 299) in Beijing, China. Results from regression analyses showed that children of local families systematically scored better than those of migrants on measures of school performance. Correlation between par…
Effects of welfare entry and exit on adolescent mental health: Evidence from panel data in China
Social Policy and Income Inequality during the Hu–Wen Era: A Progressive Legacy?
The Hu–Wen era saw significant expansions in social policies in China. How did these policy changes affect income inequality, and did they leave a progressive legacy? Using the China Household income Project (CHIP) 2002, 2007 and 2013 data, this article offers empirical evidence to answer these questions. We find that these social policy changes indeed led to some convergence of the divided urban–rural–migrant social welfare systems and helped cu…
Academic performance and peer relations among rural‐to‐urban migrant children in Beijing: Do social identity and self‐efficacy matter
Due to the household registration system, millions of rural‐to‐urban migrant children in China are ineligible to receive urban social welfare benefits. These children potentially suffer from the evolving awareness of their perceived inferior social identity and experiences of inequalities at an early stage of life. This study examined whether self‐perceived social identity is related to academic performance and peer relations among rural‐to‐urban…
Education and gender gap in couples’ time use: Evidence from China
Using the 2010 China Family Panel Studies data, this article provides new evidence on the gender gap and the role of education in time use among married Chinese couples in both urban and rural areas. Across urban and rural areas and on both work and non-work days, wives spent much more time on personal and household care, while husbands spent more time on work and leisure/social activities. For urban wives, having the same or higher levels of edu…
Parental acculturation and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
This study provided updated evidence on how parental acculturation and social support were associated with parenting in a sample of Chinese immigrant families (n = 255). The results from multivariate regressions with a rich array of control variables showed that parents’ cultural preferences for friends, food and TV programmes of other cultures were significantly associated with more parental nurturance and less intergenerational conflict, but ha…
Cultural orientation, parental nurturance, and parent-child conflict among Asian American parents in New York City
Public Assistance, Economic Prospect, and Happiness in Urban China
Social and emotional learning services and child outcomes in third grade: Evidence from a cohort of Head Start participants
Welfare Participation and Time Use in China
Investigating the effects of caseworker characteristics in child welfare
Head start participation and school readiness: Evidence from the early childhood longitudinal study–birth cohort
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n ≈ 6,950), a nationally representative sample of children born in 2001, we examined school readiness (academic skills and socioemotional well-being) at kindergarten entry for children who attended Head Start compared with those who experienced other types of child care (prekindergarten, other center-based care, other nonparental care, or parental care). Using propensity score m…
Head Start and urban children's school readiness: A birth cohort study in 18 cities
We used longitudinal data from a birth cohort study, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, to investigate the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 (N = 2,803; 18 cities). We found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social competence and reduced attention problems but not reduced internalizing or externalizing behavior problems. T…
Estimating the effects of Head Start on parenting and child maltreatment
Does Welfare Enable Family Expenditures on Human Capital? Evidence from China
Classroom-based interventions and teachers’ perceived job stressors and confidence: Evidence from a randomized trial in Head Start settings
Welfare residualism: A comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea
Gao Q, Yoo J, Yang S-M, Zhai F. Welfare residualism: a comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 113–124 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. In this article, the Basic Livelihood Security (BLS) systems of China and South Korea are compared. The purpose of BLS is to provide a s…
How Does Public Assistance Affect Family Expenditures? The Case of Urban China
Dosage Effects on School Readiness: Evidence from a Randomized Classroom-Based Intervention
Variations in the dosage of social interventions and the effects of dosage on program outcomes remain understudied. This study examines the dosage effects of the Chicago School Readiness Project, a randomized, multifaceted classroom-based intervention conducted in Head Start settings. Using a principal score matching method to address the issue of selection bias, the study finds that high-dosage levels of teacher training and mental health consul…
Head Start’s impact is contingent on alternative type of care in comparison group
Using data (n = 3,790 with 2,119 in the 3-year-old cohort and 1,671 in the 4-year-old cohort) from 353 Head Start centers in the Head Start Impact Study, the only large-scale randomized experiment in Head Start history, this article examined the impact of Head Start on children's cognitive and parent-reported social-behavioral outcomes through first grade contingent on the child care arrangements used by children who were randomly assigned to the…
Effects of welfare entry and exit on adolescent mental health: Evidence from panel data in China
Public Assistance, Economic Prospect, and Happiness in Urban China
Academic performance of subsequent schools and impacts of early interventions: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Head Start settings
Welfare Participation and Time Use in China
Parental stress and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
As the population of Chinese immigrants has been growing rapidly in the United States, it has been understudied on the parenting behaviours as well as the roles parental stress and social support playing in parenting in this group. This study investigated whether parental stress was associated with parenting and whether this relationship was mediated by social support in a sample of 255 Chinese immigrant parents from the Survey of Asian American …
Anti‐Poverty Family Policies in C hina: A Critical Evaluation
Despite its rapid economic growth, C hina remains a developing country facing serious challenges of poverty and inequality. This article examines the development and effectiveness of C hina's primary anti‐poverty family policy, the M inimum L iving S tandard A ssurance ( MLSA , or D ibao ). Using rich administrative data and building on the existing literature, this article provides a critical evaluation of MLSA 's benefit generosity, coverage, t…
Center-Based Care in the Context of One-Child Policy in China: Do Child Gender and Siblings Matter
Unpaid Care Work Time and Women’s Employment Status: Evidence from India
Using the first Indian 2019 Time Use Survey, we investigate the association between women’s time spent on unpaid care work (UCW) and their employment status and whether this association differs by socio-demographic characteristics such as age, marital status, education level and household size, controlling for religion, social group status, household monthly expenditure and geographical location (e.g. rural versus urban settings). Using multinomi…
Income and Health in Predicting Older Adults' Social Capabilities in China: The Mediating Role of Social Engagement
Parental stress and children's school performance: Are locals doing better than rural‐to‐urban migrants in Beijing
This study provides the first empirical evidence on whether parental stress is associated with children's school performance (measured by academic performance and peer relations) for rural‐to‐urban migrants ( n = 499) and local residents ( n = 299) in Beijing, China. Results from regression analyses showed that children of local families systematically scored better than those of migrants on measures of school performance. Correlation between par…
Social and emotional learning services and child outcomes in third grade: Evidence from a cohort of Head Start participants
Center‐Based Early Childhood Education and Care in China: Policies, Trends, and Implications
The development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in China has been closely intertwined with social, economic, and demographic changes. This article systematically reviews center‐based ECEC policies and programs in China and presents the major trends and implications for future research and policy. The focus of China’s ECEC policy has shifted from health and custodial care to nurturing and child‐centered education…
Welfare Participation Reduced Severe Child Multidimensional Poverty in Rural China: Better Targeting Can Lead to Greater Poverty Reduction
Education and gender gap in couples’ time use: Evidence from China
Using the 2010 China Family Panel Studies data, this article provides new evidence on the gender gap and the role of education in time use among married Chinese couples in both urban and rural areas. Across urban and rural areas and on both work and non-work days, wives spent much more time on personal and household care, while husbands spent more time on work and leisure/social activities. For urban wives, having the same or higher levels of edu…
Parental acculturation and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
This study provided updated evidence on how parental acculturation and social support were associated with parenting in a sample of Chinese immigrant families (n = 255). The results from multivariate regressions with a rich array of control variables showed that parents’ cultural preferences for friends, food and TV programmes of other cultures were significantly associated with more parental nurturance and less intergenerational conflict, but ha…
Investigating the effects of caseworker characteristics in child welfare
Center‐Based Early Childhood Education and Care in China: Policies, Trends, and Implications
The development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in China has been closely intertwined with social, economic, and demographic changes. This article systematically reviews center‐based ECEC policies and programs in China and presents the major trends and implications for future research and policy. The focus of China’s ECEC policy has shifted from health and custodial care to nurturing and child‐centered education…
Targeting children's behavior problems in preschool classrooms: A cluster-randomized controlled trial.
The present study evaluated the efficacy of a multicomponent, classroom-based intervention in reducing preschoolers' behavior problems. The Chicago School Readiness Project model was implemented in 35 Head Start classrooms using a clustered-randomized controlled trial design. Results indicate significant treatment effects (ds = 0.53-0.89) for teacher-reported and independent observations of children's internalizing and externalizing behavior prob…
Demographic changes and household income in urban China: 1988–2002
This article documents the major demographic changes during recent years in urban China using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) 1988, 1995 and 2002 data. It also presents the changing levels and compositions of household income in urban China, and examines the impact of the changing demographics on household income. Findings indicate that urban residents have become older and more educated. Individuals are more likely to be employed in th…
Welfare residualism: A comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea
Gao Q, Yoo J, Yang S-M, Zhai F. Welfare residualism: a comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 113–124 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. In this article, the Basic Livelihood Security (BLS) systems of China and South Korea are compared. The purpose of BLS is to provide a s…
How Does Public Assistance Affect Family Expenditures? The Case of Urban China
Center-Based Care in the Context of One-Child Policy in China: Do Child Gender and Siblings Matter
Dosage Effects on School Readiness: Evidence from a Randomized Classroom-Based Intervention
Variations in the dosage of social interventions and the effects of dosage on program outcomes remain understudied. This study examines the dosage effects of the Chicago School Readiness Project, a randomized, multifaceted classroom-based intervention conducted in Head Start settings. Using a principal score matching method to address the issue of selection bias, the study finds that high-dosage levels of teacher training and mental health consul…
CSRP’s Impact on Low-Income Preschoolers’ Preacademic Skills: Self-Regulation as a Mediating Mechanism
Based on theoretically driven models, the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP) targeted low-income children’s school readiness through the mediating mechanism of self-regulation. The CSRP is a multicomponent, cluster-randomized efficacy trial implemented in 35 Head Start–funded classrooms (N = 602 children). The analyses confirm that the CSRP improved low-income children’s self-regulation skills (as indexed by attention/impulse control and exe…
Challenges With Propensity Score Strategies in a High-Dimensional Setting and a Potential Alternative
This article explores some of the challenges that arise when trying to implement propensity score strategies to answer a causal question using data with a large number of covariates. We discuss choices in propensity score estimation strategies, matching and weighting implementation strategies, balance diagnostics, and final analysis models. We demonstrate the wide range of estimates that can result from different combinations of these choices. Fi…
Classroom-based interventions and teachers’ perceived job stressors and confidence: Evidence from a randomized trial in Head Start settings
Head Start and urban children's school readiness: A birth cohort study in 18 cities
We used longitudinal data from a birth cohort study, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, to investigate the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 (N = 2,803; 18 cities). We found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social competence and reduced attention problems but not reduced internalizing or externalizing behavior problems. T…
Anti‐Poverty Family Policies in C hina: A Critical Evaluation
Despite its rapid economic growth, C hina remains a developing country facing serious challenges of poverty and inequality. This article examines the development and effectiveness of C hina's primary anti‐poverty family policy, the M inimum L iving S tandard A ssurance ( MLSA , or D ibao ). Using rich administrative data and building on the existing literature, this article provides a critical evaluation of MLSA 's benefit generosity, coverage, t…
Academic performance of subsequent schools and impacts of early interventions: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Head Start settings
Head Start and children's nutrition, weight, and health care receipt
Estimating the effects of Head Start on parenting and child maltreatment
Head Start, Prekindergarten, and Academic School Readiness: A Comparison Among Regions in the United States
Child care programs (including Head Start, pre-Kindergarten [pre-K], and other center-based care) can differ, with patterns of use based on their location. Yet little research has examined how Head Start and pre-K programs affect children's academic school readiness, including vocabulary and reading skills at school entry, in the South as compared to other regions. To examine this further, secondary data (n = 2,803) collected in the Fragile Famil…
Does Welfare Enable Family Expenditures on Human Capital? Evidence from China
Is participation in Head Start associated with less maternal spanking for boys and girls
Head start participation and school readiness: Evidence from the early childhood longitudinal study–birth cohort
Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n ≈ 6,950), a nationally representative sample of children born in 2001, we examined school readiness (academic skills and socioemotional well-being) at kindergarten entry for children who attended Head Start compared with those who experienced other types of child care (prekindergarten, other center-based care, other nonparental care, or parental care). Using propensity score m…
Head Start’s impact is contingent on alternative type of care in comparison group
Using data (n = 3,790 with 2,119 in the 3-year-old cohort and 1,671 in the 4-year-old cohort) from 353 Head Start centers in the Head Start Impact Study, the only large-scale randomized experiment in Head Start history, this article examined the impact of Head Start on children's cognitive and parent-reported social-behavioral outcomes through first grade contingent on the child care arrangements used by children who were randomly assigned to the…
Social and emotional learning services and child outcomes in third grade: Evidence from a cohort of Head Start participants
Welfare Participation and Time Use in China
Parental acculturation and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
This study provided updated evidence on how parental acculturation and social support were associated with parenting in a sample of Chinese immigrant families (n = 255). The results from multivariate regressions with a rich array of control variables showed that parents’ cultural preferences for friends, food and TV programmes of other cultures were significantly associated with more parental nurturance and less intergenerational conflict, but ha…
Cultural orientation, parental nurturance, and parent-child conflict among Asian American parents in New York City
Psychology (33 works) · Developmental psychology (24 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (22 works) · Political science (18 works) · China (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works)