H Zheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 27781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Zheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Zheng |
| SIGNATURE | ZHENG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3085-4560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dynamic Contributions of Chronic Diseases to the Widening Educational Gap in Disability and Mortality, 2002–2018: A Research Note
Highlights I examine the role of chronic conditions in the widening educational health gap. The prevalence of chronic conditions increases similarly for adults with and without a college degree. Links between chronic diseases, disability, and mortality have evolved differently across educational strata. These differences contribute to the widening educational gaps in disability and mortality. These patterns are not driven primarily by health beha…
Networks of Digital Addiction Symptoms
Digital addictions, such as Internet, game, social media, and smartphone addiction, pose health risks. This cross-sectional online survey of 1,764 participants aged 16-28 (75.7 percent women) identified four addiction subtypes using specific scales. Network analysis revealed significant comorbidity (95.35 percent) among subtypes, with smartphone addiction playing a dominant role, leading to social media, Internet, and potentially game addiction. …
Unravelling the mechanisms of erchen decoction in the treatment of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD): An integrative study combining network pharmacology, molecular docking, molecular dynamics …
U.S.-Born Older Asians’ Diminishing Health Advantage Relative to Other Racial Groups, 2005–2022
Objectives Previous studies have shown that Asian Americans have lower disability and mortality rates than other racial/ethnic groups, indicating a more favorable health profile. This phenomenon is often attributed to the large proportion of Asians being foreign-born and positively selected. However, the health status of U.S.-born older Asians and its trend over time remain unclear. Methods We used data from the American Community Survey to descr…
Heterogeneity in Asian Americans’ mortality trends, 2000–2022
We discuss differential trends between Whites and Asians, as well as variation within Asian ethnic and educational groups, in the context of socioeconomic conditions, labor market dynamics, racialization in the United States, and stages of nutrition transition in countries of origin
Do Immigrants Experience Morbidity and Disability Disadvantages at Older Ages? A Research Note
Prior studies show that Hispanic and Black immigrants are more susceptible to disabilities and chronic diseases in their later years than U.S.-born Whites, despite their health advantage at younger ages. Such studies often rely on data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), which disproportionately includes immigrants who arrived decades ago. The shortage of research on immigrants of other ethnoracial groups further makes it unclear whether …
Paradox Between Immigrant Advantages in Morbidity and Mortality: Dynamic Patterns and Tentative Explanations
Recent research indicates that immigrants are more likely to experience chronic conditions and disabilities than natives at older ages, yet they continue to exhibit lower overall mortality, thus suggesting a morbidity–mortality paradox. We utilize the IPUMS National Health Interview Survey 2002–2018 with linked mortality data through 2019 (n = 405,270) to comprehensively investigate how this paradox unfolds with age for various groups of immigran…
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch
Onset and Cessation of Smoking: Temporal Dynamics and Racial Difference in Educational Smoking Disparities among Women
Understanding the health decline of Americans in boomers to millennials
Workplace Age Discrimination and Social-psychological Well-being
The research literature on workplace inequality has given comparatively little attention to age discrimination and its social-psychological consequences. In this article, we highlight useful insights from critical gerontological, labor process, and mental health literatures and analyze the patterning of workplace age discrimination and its implications for sense of job insecurity, job-specific stress, and the overall mental health of full-time wo…
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time
Much research has debated whether immigrants' health advantages over natives decline with their duration at destination. Most such research has relied on (pooled) cross-sectional data and used years since immigration as a proxy for the duration of residence, leading to the challenge of distilling the duration effect from the confounding cohort-of-arrival and age-of-arrival effects. Because longitudinal studies tend to use self-rated health as the…
Do immigrants’ health advantages remain after unemployment? Variations by race‐ethnicity and gender
Immigrants tend to display more favorable health outcomes than native‐born co‐ethnics. At the same time, they face considerable employment instability. It is unclear whether immigrants’ job conditions may compromise their health advantage. Using U.S. National Health Interview Survey data, this study shows that the experience of unemployment reduces immigrants’ health advantage, but unemployed foreign‐born Blacks, White women, and Asian women stil…
Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans' health
Divergent Trends in the Effects of Early Life Factors on Adult Health
Workplace financial transparency and Job distress
Social scientists have long been interested in questions of organizational culpability, workers' rights, and workplace equity. This study focuses on a particularly important aspect of managerial practice-financial transparency-and its implications for job-related distress. Drawing on 2011 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey data, we interrogate the transparency-distress relationship and whether it is mediated or moderated by other organ…
A New Look at Cohort Trend and Underlying Mechanisms in Cognitive Functioning
The worsening CF among Baby Boomers may potentially reverse past favorable trends in dementia as they reach older ages and cognitive impairment becomes more common if no effective interventions and policy responses are in place
How do age and major risk factors for mortality interact over the life-course? Implications for health disparities research and public health policy
A critical question in life-course research is whether the relationship between a risk factor and mortality strengthens, weakens, or remains constant with age. The objective of this paper is to shed light on the importance of measurement scale in examining this question. Many studies address this question solely on the multiplicative (relative) scale and report that the hazard ratio of dying associated with a risk factor declines with age. A wide…
Does the sex ratio at sexual maturity affect men's later-life mortality risks? Evidence from historical China
Under the one child policy regime in China: Did having younger sibling(s) increase the risk of overweight and underweight status
The implications of having any younger sibling(s) on child overweight and underweight status under China’s One Child Policy Regime are complicated by multiple factors, including potential resource dilution, the stage of economic development, changing child-rearing norm, mandated birth interval and parental son preference. Using the instrumental variable method and data from China Health and Nutrition Survey 1991–2006, we find that having younger …
Why does college education matter? Unveiling the contributions of selection factors
Age-Specific Variation in Adult Mortality Rates in Developed Countries
Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s
Why has medicine expanded? The role of consumers
Losing confidence in medicine in an era of medical expansion
Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s
Aging in the Context of Cohort Evolution and Mortality Selection
This study examines historical patterns of aging through the perspectives of cohort evolution and mortality selection, where the former emphasizes the correlation across cohorts in the age dependence of mortality rates, and the latter emphasizes cohort change in the acceleration of mortality over the life course. In the analysis of historical cohort mortality data, I find support for both perspectives. The rate of demographic aging, or the rate a…
Rising U.S. income inequality, gender and individual self-rated health, 1972–2004
Rising U.S. income inequality and the changing gradient of socioeconomic status on physical functioning and activity limitations, 1984–2007
Heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan General Theory of Mortality and Aging
This study examines and further develops the classic Strehler-Mildvan (SM) general theory of mortality and aging. Three predictions from the SM theory are tested by examining the age dependence of mortality patterns for 42 countries (including developed and developing countries) over the period 1955–2003. By applying finite mixture regression models, principal component analysis, and random-effects panel regression models, we find that (1) the ne…
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time
Much research has debated whether immigrants' health advantages over natives decline with their duration at destination. Most such research has relied on (pooled) cross-sectional data and used years since immigration as a proxy for the duration of residence, leading to the challenge of distilling the duration effect from the confounding cohort-of-arrival and age-of-arrival effects. Because longitudinal studies tend to use self-rated health as the…
Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans' health
Divergent Trends in the Effects of Early Life Factors on Adult Health
Understanding the health decline of Americans in boomers to millennials
Do immigrants’ health advantages remain after unemployment? Variations by race‐ethnicity and gender
Immigrants tend to display more favorable health outcomes than native‐born co‐ethnics. At the same time, they face considerable employment instability. It is unclear whether immigrants’ job conditions may compromise their health advantage. Using U.S. National Health Interview Survey data, this study shows that the experience of unemployment reduces immigrants’ health advantage, but unemployed foreign‐born Blacks, White women, and Asian women stil…
A New Look at Cohort Trend and Underlying Mechanisms in Cognitive Functioning
The worsening CF among Baby Boomers may potentially reverse past favorable trends in dementia as they reach older ages and cognitive impairment becomes more common if no effective interventions and policy responses are in place
Why does college education matter? Unveiling the contributions of selection factors
Losing confidence in medicine in an era of medical expansion
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch
Workplace financial transparency and Job distress
Social scientists have long been interested in questions of organizational culpability, workers' rights, and workplace equity. This study focuses on a particularly important aspect of managerial practice-financial transparency-and its implications for job-related distress. Drawing on 2011 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey data, we interrogate the transparency-distress relationship and whether it is mediated or moderated by other organ…
Age-Specific Variation in Adult Mortality Rates in Developed Countries
Heterogeneity in Asian Americans’ mortality trends, 2000–2022
We discuss differential trends between Whites and Asians, as well as variation within Asian ethnic and educational groups, in the context of socioeconomic conditions, labor market dynamics, racialization in the United States, and stages of nutrition transition in countries of origin
Paradox Between Immigrant Advantages in Morbidity and Mortality: Dynamic Patterns and Tentative Explanations
Recent research indicates that immigrants are more likely to experience chronic conditions and disabilities than natives at older ages, yet they continue to exhibit lower overall mortality, thus suggesting a morbidity–mortality paradox. We utilize the IPUMS National Health Interview Survey 2002–2018 with linked mortality data through 2019 (n = 405,270) to comprehensively investigate how this paradox unfolds with age for various groups of immigran…
Does the sex ratio at sexual maturity affect men's later-life mortality risks? Evidence from historical China
Under the one child policy regime in China: Did having younger sibling(s) increase the risk of overweight and underweight status
The implications of having any younger sibling(s) on child overweight and underweight status under China’s One Child Policy Regime are complicated by multiple factors, including potential resource dilution, the stage of economic development, changing child-rearing norm, mandated birth interval and parental son preference. Using the instrumental variable method and data from China Health and Nutrition Survey 1991–2006, we find that having younger …
The Differential Short‐Term Impacts of Executions on Felony and Non‐Felony Homicides
Questions about the relationship of economic conditions to violent victimization
Rising U.S. income inequality, gender and individual self-rated health, 1972–2004
Questions about the relationship of economic conditions to violent victimization
Heterogeneity in the Strehler-Mildvan General Theory of Mortality and Aging
This study examines and further develops the classic Strehler-Mildvan (SM) general theory of mortality and aging. Three predictions from the SM theory are tested by examining the age dependence of mortality patterns for 42 countries (including developed and developing countries) over the period 1955–2003. By applying finite mixture regression models, principal component analysis, and random-effects panel regression models, we find that (1) the ne…
Overview of: “The Differential Short‐Term Impacts of Executions on Felony and Non‐Felony Homicides”
Research Summary Social scientists have debated about whether the death penalty and/or executions deter homicides and thus save lives for at least half a century. Recent empirical analyses by Kovandzic, Vieraitis, and Boots (2009) and Land, Teske, and Zheng (2009) implied that if a deterrent effect of executions exists, it is small in magnitude and relatively short term. Discussions of Kovandzic et al. (2009) by Donahue (2009) and Rubin (2009) le…
The Differential Short‐Term Impacts of Executions on Felony and Non‐Felony Homicides
Rising U.S. income inequality and the changing gradient of socioeconomic status on physical functioning and activity limitations, 1984–2007
Aging in the Context of Cohort Evolution and Mortality Selection
This study examines historical patterns of aging through the perspectives of cohort evolution and mortality selection, where the former emphasizes the correlation across cohorts in the age dependence of mortality rates, and the latter emphasizes cohort change in the acceleration of mortality over the life course. In the analysis of historical cohort mortality data, I find support for both perspectives. The rate of demographic aging, or the rate a…
Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s
Why has medicine expanded? The role of consumers
Losing confidence in medicine in an era of medical expansion
Age-Specific Variation in Adult Mortality Rates in Developed Countries
Under the one child policy regime in China: Did having younger sibling(s) increase the risk of overweight and underweight status
The implications of having any younger sibling(s) on child overweight and underweight status under China’s One Child Policy Regime are complicated by multiple factors, including potential resource dilution, the stage of economic development, changing child-rearing norm, mandated birth interval and parental son preference. Using the instrumental variable method and data from China Health and Nutrition Survey 1991–2006, we find that having younger …
Why does college education matter? Unveiling the contributions of selection factors
Does the sex ratio at sexual maturity affect men's later-life mortality risks? Evidence from historical China
How do age and major risk factors for mortality interact over the life-course? Implications for health disparities research and public health policy
A critical question in life-course research is whether the relationship between a risk factor and mortality strengthens, weakens, or remains constant with age. The objective of this paper is to shed light on the importance of measurement scale in examining this question. Many studies address this question solely on the multiplicative (relative) scale and report that the hazard ratio of dying associated with a risk factor declines with age. A wide…
A New Look at Cohort Trend and Underlying Mechanisms in Cognitive Functioning
The worsening CF among Baby Boomers may potentially reverse past favorable trends in dementia as they reach older ages and cognitive impairment becomes more common if no effective interventions and policy responses are in place
Divergent Trends in the Effects of Early Life Factors on Adult Health
Workplace financial transparency and Job distress
Social scientists have long been interested in questions of organizational culpability, workers' rights, and workplace equity. This study focuses on a particularly important aspect of managerial practice-financial transparency-and its implications for job-related distress. Drawing on 2011 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey data, we interrogate the transparency-distress relationship and whether it is mediated or moderated by other organ…
Workplace Age Discrimination and Social-psychological Well-being
The research literature on workplace inequality has given comparatively little attention to age discrimination and its social-psychological consequences. In this article, we highlight useful insights from critical gerontological, labor process, and mental health literatures and analyze the patterning of workplace age discrimination and its implications for sense of job insecurity, job-specific stress, and the overall mental health of full-time wo…
Diminished Advantage or Persistent Protection? A New Approach to Assess Immigrants' Mortality Advantages Over Time
Much research has debated whether immigrants' health advantages over natives decline with their duration at destination. Most such research has relied on (pooled) cross-sectional data and used years since immigration as a proxy for the duration of residence, leading to the challenge of distilling the duration effect from the confounding cohort-of-arrival and age-of-arrival effects. Because longitudinal studies tend to use self-rated health as the…
Do immigrants’ health advantages remain after unemployment? Variations by race‐ethnicity and gender
Immigrants tend to display more favorable health outcomes than native‐born co‐ethnics. At the same time, they face considerable employment instability. It is unclear whether immigrants’ job conditions may compromise their health advantage. Using U.S. National Health Interview Survey data, this study shows that the experience of unemployment reduces immigrants’ health advantage, but unemployed foreign‐born Blacks, White women, and Asian women stil…
Rising childhood income inequality and declining Americans' health
Onset and Cessation of Smoking: Temporal Dynamics and Racial Difference in Educational Smoking Disparities among Women
Understanding the health decline of Americans in boomers to millennials
Emerging health disparities among college graduates: Understanding the health consequences of education-occupation mismatch
Medicine (20 works) · Demography (17 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (17 works) · Demography (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Population (15 works) · Global Health Care Issues (13 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Geography (11 works) · Gerontology (11 works)