Skylar Biyang Sun
Biographic Data
| ID | 322184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Skylar Biyang Sun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Skylar Biyang |
| FAMILY NAME | Sun |
| SIGNATURE | SUN S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of International Business and Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4194-9875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Not all debt is equal
From historical vanguard to agency vacuum
Are healthier people more likely to engage in political activities? A multinational analysis of health and institutional participation in Europe
Whose Care Matters? The Protective Role of Perceived Care in the Long‐Term Physical Health Consequences of Adolescent Loneliness
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness has been associated with physical health outcomes, including an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). While much of the research has focused on older adults, less is known about whether loneliness during adolescence is related to CVD risk later in life. This study addresses this gap by investigating the relationship between adolescent loneliness and CVD risk in adulthood, as well as the moderating role of differ…
Online health information seeking behaviors among U.S. adults
Health Information Technology (HIT) use among U.S. adults has been a widely researched topic in recent years. Previous studies generally focused on HIT use of a specific adult subsample, e.g., older adults or sexual minorities, while few had encompassed the comprehensive adult population in the U.S. and explored both the individual and societal trends in HIT usage. Capitalizing on five waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (2015, 2…
Hong Kong wives say no to a big family—educational pairings and fertility in Hong Kong
We used the 2016 Hong Kong Census data and the diagonal reference model to investigate the effects of partners' educational pairings on fertility in Hong Kong. Our findings suggest a negative relationship between couples' educational achievements and their fertility. Moreover, males' educational attainment is more consequential of whether having children or not and both males' and females' educational attainments are determinants of the number of…
Gender peer effects on students’ academic achievement among Chinese adolescents
While there is a consensus among scholars regarding the positive impact of peers’ cognitive abilities on students’ academic performance, there remains limited knowledge regarding potential gender-based variations in this association, especially in the context of developing countries. Through an analysis of data from the China Educational Panel Survey and a quasi-experimental approach, our study has established a clear correlation between classmat…
Health Consequences of Entrepreneurship in China
A plethora of research has focused on the economic outcomes of Chinese entrepreneurs, but few have analyzed their life outcomes, especially health consequences. Our research aims to understand entrepreneurial health by exploring the causality between entrepreneurship and health outcomes in the Chinese context. We extracted five waves of data from a nationally representative dataset, that is, the China Family Panel Survey (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, …
Do immigrants support environmentalism? Immigrants’ environmental socialization in the United States
As globalisation continues, heated debates over immigrants’ environmental behaviours in the U.S. have been prominent in recent years. While research has generally focused on the association between political affiliation and pro-environmental values, only a few studies have specifically explored immigrants’ pro-environmental values in the U.S. Utilizing a pooled dataset spanning 3 years (2017, 2020, and 2022) from the Cooperative Election Study an…
Immigrants as natural supporters? Cross‐nation analysis with a multilevel mixed‐effects model
Research often finds that immigrants tend to have a different profile from locals regarding confidence in the government. Both the origin's and destination's institutional features can influence immigrants' confidence. Scholars have relied on three major models—the cultural‐persistence model, the performance model, and the dual‐reference model—to explain the possible mechanisms behind this difference. Our research builds on previous studies by ex…
Your Classmates Eat Junk Food and You Become Depressed—the Peer Effects of Junk Food Consumption on Depression
Negative Sentiment Toward Recent Migrants in a Post-Colonial City
By examining negative sentiment toward recent migrants among local residents in Hong Kong, this study fills a research gap in understanding group relations between migrants and local residents in post-colonial societies. We suggest that negative sentiments toward recent migrants among local residents in Hong Kong are the result of the society's post-colonial development, which has fostered a local identity and defined a group boundary between res…
Which hierarchy matters? Subjective social status, status incongruence and well-being among high-skilled Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
We assessed how the high-skilled migrants’ statuses in Mainland China and Hong Kong and the discrepancies between the two statuses are related to their well-being outcomes. We used respondent-driven sampling method and obtained an analytical sample of 2,864 participants. The majority of the high-skilled migrants perceived higher status in Mainland China than in Hong Kong which is more consequential for their health and well-being. Compared to tho…
Shouting “chin min yau lok” (stop at the front) in a minibus
Transportation socialization as a rising field of study has gained much attention in traditional immigration countries, such as the United States and European countries. Treating transportation behaviors as a routine activity, previous studies mainly looked at the discrepancy in transportation choices between immigrants and natives, for example, automobile usage in the U.S. By examining immigrants’ minibus ridership in Hong Kong (a unique local p…
Partners' Educational Pairings and Subjective Well-Being in China
Using pooled data from the Chinese General Social Survey in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015, this study investigated the relationship between partners' educational pairings and subjective well-being among Chinese. Diagonal mobility models were employed to avoid conflating the effect of each partner's education and the effect of the difference in education between partners. The findings reveal that regarding the well-being consequences of partners' edu…
The Bidirectional Association Between Physical and Cognitive Function Among Chinese Older Adults
This study investigated the bidirectional association between physical and cognitive function in later life and examined the mechanisms underlying the interrelationship. We employed cross-lagged panel models to analyze a sample of 4232 unique participants aged 65 years and older from three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. Physical activity and social participation were tested as potential mediators between physical and …
Gone with the land”
The Effects of Peer Parental Education on Student Achievement in Urban China
Despite scholarly consensus on the positive influence of peers’ parental education on students’ academic achievement, less is known about whether marginalized students reap similar benefits as their nonmarginalized counterparts. Using data from the China Educational Panel Survey and a quasi-experimental design, we show that the impact of classmates’ parental education on test scores is significantly stronger for local students than for migrant st…
China's Foreign Aid Training
Since the 1990s, China has formalized its short-term foreign aid training for foreign officials and technological personnel. This type of training often lasts for 21 days and participants from invited countries arrive in China for a period of condensed study, with all fees covered by the Chinese government. By the end of 2009, China had organized more than 4000 short-term training programs for over 120,000 personnel from more than 50 countries. A…
Digital Representation in an Electoral Campaign Influenced by Mainland China
Widely known by the public, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong is selected not by universal suffrage but by a 1,200-member Election Committee (EC). While candidates Carrie Lam, John Tsang, and Kwok-hing Woo all ran in the Chief Executive Election of 2017, only Lam received the blessing of authorities in the Mainland. Though Tsang had led the polls throughout the entire campaign and was popular on several social media platforms, a majority of EC mem…
We are Not Your Enemies!” — Analyzing the Situation of Mainland Chinese Students (Lusheng) in Taiwan
The Centralisation of the Chinese Communist Party’s Campaign against Corruption and Its Implications
Following the initiation of the policy of ‘Reform and Open Door’, the possibilities for public officials to trade power for private gain in China increased. To tackle the problem of corruption, different levels of Discipline Inspection Commissions (DICs) in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated investigation related to various corruption cases. However, due to the nature of the administrative set-up in China, the local DICs could not effect…
The Effects of Peer Parental Education on Student Achievement in Urban China
Despite scholarly consensus on the positive influence of peers’ parental education on students’ academic achievement, less is known about whether marginalized students reap similar benefits as their nonmarginalized counterparts. Using data from the China Educational Panel Survey and a quasi-experimental design, we show that the impact of classmates’ parental education on test scores is significantly stronger for local students than for migrant st…
Immigrants as natural supporters? Cross‐nation analysis with a multilevel mixed‐effects model
Research often finds that immigrants tend to have a different profile from locals regarding confidence in the government. Both the origin's and destination's institutional features can influence immigrants' confidence. Scholars have relied on three major models—the cultural‐persistence model, the performance model, and the dual‐reference model—to explain the possible mechanisms behind this difference. Our research builds on previous studies by ex…
Negative Sentiment Toward Recent Migrants in a Post-Colonial City
By examining negative sentiment toward recent migrants among local residents in Hong Kong, this study fills a research gap in understanding group relations between migrants and local residents in post-colonial societies. We suggest that negative sentiments toward recent migrants among local residents in Hong Kong are the result of the society's post-colonial development, which has fostered a local identity and defined a group boundary between res…
Partners' Educational Pairings and Subjective Well-Being in China
Using pooled data from the Chinese General Social Survey in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015, this study investigated the relationship between partners' educational pairings and subjective well-being among Chinese. Diagonal mobility models were employed to avoid conflating the effect of each partner's education and the effect of the difference in education between partners. The findings reveal that regarding the well-being consequences of partners' edu…
Gone with the land”
China's Foreign Aid Training
Since the 1990s, China has formalized its short-term foreign aid training for foreign officials and technological personnel. This type of training often lasts for 21 days and participants from invited countries arrive in China for a period of condensed study, with all fees covered by the Chinese government. By the end of 2009, China had organized more than 4000 short-term training programs for over 120,000 personnel from more than 50 countries. A…
Do immigrants support environmentalism? Immigrants’ environmental socialization in the United States
As globalisation continues, heated debates over immigrants’ environmental behaviours in the U.S. have been prominent in recent years. While research has generally focused on the association between political affiliation and pro-environmental values, only a few studies have specifically explored immigrants’ pro-environmental values in the U.S. Utilizing a pooled dataset spanning 3 years (2017, 2020, and 2022) from the Cooperative Election Study an…
Which hierarchy matters? Subjective social status, status incongruence and well-being among high-skilled Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
We assessed how the high-skilled migrants’ statuses in Mainland China and Hong Kong and the discrepancies between the two statuses are related to their well-being outcomes. We used respondent-driven sampling method and obtained an analytical sample of 2,864 participants. The majority of the high-skilled migrants perceived higher status in Mainland China than in Hong Kong which is more consequential for their health and well-being. Compared to tho…
Shouting “chin min yau lok” (stop at the front) in a minibus
Transportation socialization as a rising field of study has gained much attention in traditional immigration countries, such as the United States and European countries. Treating transportation behaviors as a routine activity, previous studies mainly looked at the discrepancy in transportation choices between immigrants and natives, for example, automobile usage in the U.S. By examining immigrants’ minibus ridership in Hong Kong (a unique local p…
We are Not Your Enemies!” — Analyzing the Situation of Mainland Chinese Students (Lusheng) in Taiwan
The Centralisation of the Chinese Communist Party’s Campaign against Corruption and Its Implications
Following the initiation of the policy of ‘Reform and Open Door’, the possibilities for public officials to trade power for private gain in China increased. To tackle the problem of corruption, different levels of Discipline Inspection Commissions (DICs) in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated investigation related to various corruption cases. However, due to the nature of the administrative set-up in China, the local DICs could not effect…
The Centralisation of the Chinese Communist Party’s Campaign against Corruption and Its Implications
Following the initiation of the policy of ‘Reform and Open Door’, the possibilities for public officials to trade power for private gain in China increased. To tackle the problem of corruption, different levels of Discipline Inspection Commissions (DICs) in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) initiated investigation related to various corruption cases. However, due to the nature of the administrative set-up in China, the local DICs could not effect…
Digital Representation in an Electoral Campaign Influenced by Mainland China
Widely known by the public, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong is selected not by universal suffrage but by a 1,200-member Election Committee (EC). While candidates Carrie Lam, John Tsang, and Kwok-hing Woo all ran in the Chief Executive Election of 2017, only Lam received the blessing of authorities in the Mainland. Though Tsang had led the polls throughout the entire campaign and was popular on several social media platforms, a majority of EC mem…
We are Not Your Enemies!” — Analyzing the Situation of Mainland Chinese Students (Lusheng) in Taiwan
The Bidirectional Association Between Physical and Cognitive Function Among Chinese Older Adults
This study investigated the bidirectional association between physical and cognitive function in later life and examined the mechanisms underlying the interrelationship. We employed cross-lagged panel models to analyze a sample of 4232 unique participants aged 65 years and older from three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey. Physical activity and social participation were tested as potential mediators between physical and …
Gone with the land”
The Effects of Peer Parental Education on Student Achievement in Urban China
Despite scholarly consensus on the positive influence of peers’ parental education on students’ academic achievement, less is known about whether marginalized students reap similar benefits as their nonmarginalized counterparts. Using data from the China Educational Panel Survey and a quasi-experimental design, we show that the impact of classmates’ parental education on test scores is significantly stronger for local students than for migrant st…
China's Foreign Aid Training
Since the 1990s, China has formalized its short-term foreign aid training for foreign officials and technological personnel. This type of training often lasts for 21 days and participants from invited countries arrive in China for a period of condensed study, with all fees covered by the Chinese government. By the end of 2009, China had organized more than 4000 short-term training programs for over 120,000 personnel from more than 50 countries. A…
Partners' Educational Pairings and Subjective Well-Being in China
Using pooled data from the Chinese General Social Survey in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015, this study investigated the relationship between partners' educational pairings and subjective well-being among Chinese. Diagonal mobility models were employed to avoid conflating the effect of each partner's education and the effect of the difference in education between partners. The findings reveal that regarding the well-being consequences of partners' edu…
Your Classmates Eat Junk Food and You Become Depressed—the Peer Effects of Junk Food Consumption on Depression
Negative Sentiment Toward Recent Migrants in a Post-Colonial City
By examining negative sentiment toward recent migrants among local residents in Hong Kong, this study fills a research gap in understanding group relations between migrants and local residents in post-colonial societies. We suggest that negative sentiments toward recent migrants among local residents in Hong Kong are the result of the society's post-colonial development, which has fostered a local identity and defined a group boundary between res…
Which hierarchy matters? Subjective social status, status incongruence and well-being among high-skilled Mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong
We assessed how the high-skilled migrants’ statuses in Mainland China and Hong Kong and the discrepancies between the two statuses are related to their well-being outcomes. We used respondent-driven sampling method and obtained an analytical sample of 2,864 participants. The majority of the high-skilled migrants perceived higher status in Mainland China than in Hong Kong which is more consequential for their health and well-being. Compared to tho…
Shouting “chin min yau lok” (stop at the front) in a minibus
Transportation socialization as a rising field of study has gained much attention in traditional immigration countries, such as the United States and European countries. Treating transportation behaviors as a routine activity, previous studies mainly looked at the discrepancy in transportation choices between immigrants and natives, for example, automobile usage in the U.S. By examining immigrants’ minibus ridership in Hong Kong (a unique local p…
Health Consequences of Entrepreneurship in China
A plethora of research has focused on the economic outcomes of Chinese entrepreneurs, but few have analyzed their life outcomes, especially health consequences. Our research aims to understand entrepreneurial health by exploring the causality between entrepreneurship and health outcomes in the Chinese context. We extracted five waves of data from a nationally representative dataset, that is, the China Family Panel Survey (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, …
Do immigrants support environmentalism? Immigrants’ environmental socialization in the United States
As globalisation continues, heated debates over immigrants’ environmental behaviours in the U.S. have been prominent in recent years. While research has generally focused on the association between political affiliation and pro-environmental values, only a few studies have specifically explored immigrants’ pro-environmental values in the U.S. Utilizing a pooled dataset spanning 3 years (2017, 2020, and 2022) from the Cooperative Election Study an…
Immigrants as natural supporters? Cross‐nation analysis with a multilevel mixed‐effects model
Research often finds that immigrants tend to have a different profile from locals regarding confidence in the government. Both the origin's and destination's institutional features can influence immigrants' confidence. Scholars have relied on three major models—the cultural‐persistence model, the performance model, and the dual‐reference model—to explain the possible mechanisms behind this difference. Our research builds on previous studies by ex…
Hong Kong wives say no to a big family—educational pairings and fertility in Hong Kong
We used the 2016 Hong Kong Census data and the diagonal reference model to investigate the effects of partners' educational pairings on fertility in Hong Kong. Our findings suggest a negative relationship between couples' educational achievements and their fertility. Moreover, males' educational attainment is more consequential of whether having children or not and both males' and females' educational attainments are determinants of the number of…
Gender peer effects on students’ academic achievement among Chinese adolescents
While there is a consensus among scholars regarding the positive impact of peers’ cognitive abilities on students’ academic performance, there remains limited knowledge regarding potential gender-based variations in this association, especially in the context of developing countries. Through an analysis of data from the China Educational Panel Survey and a quasi-experimental approach, our study has established a clear correlation between classmat…
Not all debt is equal
From historical vanguard to agency vacuum
Are healthier people more likely to engage in political activities? A multinational analysis of health and institutional participation in Europe
Whose Care Matters? The Protective Role of Perceived Care in the Long‐Term Physical Health Consequences of Adolescent Loneliness
INTRODUCTION: Loneliness has been associated with physical health outcomes, including an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). While much of the research has focused on older adults, less is known about whether loneliness during adolescence is related to CVD risk later in life. This study addresses this gap by investigating the relationship between adolescent loneliness and CVD risk in adulthood, as well as the moderating role of differ…
Online health information seeking behaviors among U.S. adults
Health Information Technology (HIT) use among U.S. adults has been a widely researched topic in recent years. Previous studies generally focused on HIT use of a specific adult subsample, e.g., older adults or sexual minorities, while few had encompassed the comprehensive adult population in the U.S. and explored both the individual and societal trends in HIT usage. Capitalizing on five waves of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (2015, 2…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · China (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works)