W Fan
Biographic Data
| ID | 33725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Fan |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Fan |
| SIGNATURE | FAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6124-8331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Resurgence of State-Sector Employment? The Covid-19 Pandemic and Chinese Workers’ Shifting Job Satisfaction
While anecdotal accounts have noted the growing appeal of state-sector jobs in China since the COVID-19 pandemic, no formal investigation has yet examined this trend. We use nationally representative data from the 2016–2022 China Family Panel Studies to analyze cross-sector trends in job satisfaction from before to during the pandemic. Multi-dimensional job satisfaction is examined, including satisfaction with income, job security, working enviro…
Human Meanings of Evolving Employment Geographies: Work-Place Captivity and Well-Being Dynamics
A central tenet in social psychology is the importance of perceived control in the stress process; another focuses on the well-being implications of mismatches between preferred and actual arrangements. Integrating these perspectives and leveraging the pandemic-driven shift to remote work, we examine “work-place captivity,” the misalignment between employees’ actual and preferred work locations combined with feeling a lack of control over locatio…
Integration of effective antecedent rainfall to improve the performance of rainfall thresholds for landslide early warning in Wanzhou District, China
Work-place Mismatch, Work-Family Conflict, and Psychological Well-being among Parents
Remote and hybrid work have received much attention since the expansion of off-site work following the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on the effects of these arrangements on workers’ well-being, however, is mixed, likely because studies rarely account for workers’ workplace preferences. Using data from the 2023 wave of the Study on U.S. Parents’ Divisions of Labor During COVID-19 (SPDLC), we assess the association between work-place mismatch (misali…
Economic Risks and Mental Health During China's 2020 Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Insecure employment and irregular income have become important components of risk in contemporary society. This mixed-methods study investigates the social correlates and mental health implications of economic risks during China's 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Given China's uneven geographic distribution of COVID-19 and its distinctive institutional arrangements, we theorise and empirically test social disparities by region and work unit ( danwei ). Na…
Whose Parents Matter? Intergenerational Transmission of Earnings Arrangements in Different-Sex Couples: A Research Note
Over the past few decades, the United States has witnessed a gender revolution and transformation in family economic arrangements. However, little research has investigated the intergenerational transmission of earnings arrangements within different-sex couples, even though such knowledge illuminates the mechanisms underlying changes and continuities in the economic organization and gender relations within U.S. families. We use a life course pers…
Work time reduction via a 4-day workweek finds improvements in workers' well-being
The Future(s) of Work? Disparities Around Changing Job Conditions When Remote/Hybrid or Returning to Working at Work
The future of work is ambiguous at best. Despite widespread shifts to remote/hybrid work during the COVID-19 lockdown, there is a paucity of knowledge about changing job conditions in tandem with different work locales. Is the move to remote/hybrid work a disrupter or accentuator of existing norms and inequalities? Drawing on nationally representative, four-wave panel survey data (October 2020 to April 2022) collected from U.S. workers who spent …
Work-schedule instability and workers’ health and well-being across different socioeconomic strata in China
The Shifting Stress of Working Parents: An Examination of Dual Pandemic Disruptions-Remote Work and Remote Schooling
Working remotely at least some of the time has long been seen as promoting a better integration of work and care obligations, even though prepandemic research is mixed as to the extent to which parents benefit emotionally from remote work. We exploit dual social experiments in schooling and work spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic to understand any stress-reducing effects of working from home under different school-closing state policy contexts. The…
State Contexts, Job Insecurity, and Subjective Well-being in the Time of Covid-19
The Early 2020 Covid-19 Outbreak in China and Subsequent Flourishing: Medium-Term Effects and Intervening Mechanisms
In early 2020, a COVID-19 outbreak occurred in Hubei Province of China. Exploiting the geographic concentration of China’s COVID-19 cases in Hubei (the initial epicenter), we compare Hubei and non-Hubei residents to examine the medium-term effect of exposure to the COVID-19 outbreak on mental well-being. We examine flourishing—a comprehensive assessment of well-being that is not merely the absence of mental illness—and investigate a broad set of …
Ongoing Remote Work, Returning to Working at Work, or in between during Covid-19: What Promotes Subjective Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a massive turn to remote work, followed by subsequent shifts for many into hybrid or fully returning to the office. To understand the patterned dynamics of subjective well-being associated with shifting places of work, we conducted a nationally representative panel survey (October 2020 and April 2021) of U.S. employees who worked remotely at some point since the pandemic (N = 1,817). Cluster analysis identified …
Breadwinning, Occupational Sex Composition, and Stress: Examining Psychological Distress and Heavy Drinking at the Intersection of Gender and Race
Research on couples' earnings arrangements has focused on men's and women's (non)conformance to the male-breadwinner/female-homemaker model. By doing so, research has ignored the following: Breadwinning can be a source of stress for men; the male-breadwinner/female-homemaker model does not apply to all racial groups; and the proportion of women in an occupation may moderate the stress process associated with divergent earnings arrangements. To ad…
Working More, Less or the Same During Covid-19? A Mixed Method, Intersectional Analysis of Remote Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed where paid work is done. Workers able to do so have been required to work remotely. We draw on survey data collected in October 2020 from a nationally representative sample of 3,017 remote workers, as well as qualitative survey data collected from 231 remote workers, to examine perceived changes in work hours from before to during the pandemic. Results indicate women are at greater risk of change (either a ma…
Educational Differences in Risk of All-Cause Mortality After Acute Cardiovascular Events: Examining Cohort and Gender Variations
Acute cardiovascular events are prevalent in older adults. In this study, following a sample of respondents from the 1996–2016 Health and Retirement Study after diagnosis of myocardial infarction or stroke, we used discrete-time event history models to study mortality post diagnosis. We found an educational gradient in mortality following myocardial infarction or stroke with the better educated surviving longer, even as the gradient was weaker fo…
Constellations of gender ideology, earnings arrangements, and marital satisfaction: A comparison across four East Asian societies
Recent research conducted in Western countries highlights gender ideology as a multidimensional concept. Little, however, is known in East Asia about the patterns and consequences of constellations of gender ideology (i.e. clusters of attitudes towards gender relations in different domains). Using data from 3,541 married respondents in the 2006 East Asian Social Survey (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), we identify four constellations—egali…
Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Health Benefits of Tertiary Education: What Are the Roles of the Skills Gap and the Earnings Gap
Recent studies have shown that the relationship between educational attainment and health varies across countries. To better understand the cross-national variation in the health benefits of higher education, we theorize and empirically examine two country-level factors—the skills gap and the earnings gap between adults with tertiary and intermediate education. We expect the skills gap and the earnings gap to moderate educational gradients in hea…
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China's Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
Research on stigma and discrimination during COVID-19 has focused on racism and xenophobia in Western countries. In comparison, little research has considered stigma processes, discrimination, and their public health implications in non-Western contexts. This study draws on quantitative survey data (N = 7,942) and qualitative interview data (N = 50) to understand the emergence, experiences, and mental health implications of stigma and discriminat…
Who loses income during the Covid-19 outbreak? Evidence from China
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every facet of society. In addition to directly affecting population health, the economic impact of this social shock has begun to be palpable at the individual level. Situated in this context, this research note draws on data collected from Mainland China in March–April, 2020 to examine the individual-level economic toll of the COVID-19 outbreak. We investigate how individuals’ income (when surveyed) has cha…
The Psychological Cost of Racial Discrimination: What is the Role of Residential Segregation
Racial discrimination is known to harm health, but to what extent the health burden of racial discrimination is contingent on residential contexts is understudied. This study examines the moderating role of racial residential segregation in the relationship between racial discrimination and psychological distress. Nationally representative data from the 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study were merged with metropolitan‐level data fr…
Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant Mortality Among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983–2013: A Decomposition Analysis
The United States compares unfavorably with other high-income countries in infant mortality, which recent literature has attributed to the poor birth outcomes among disadvantaged (i.e., unmarried and less-educated) mothers. Describing and decomposing the trend of the concentration of infant mortality among disadvantaged mothers thus provides important clues for improving birth outcomes. We develop the infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI) to…
Rising educational gradients in mortality among U.S. whites: What are the roles of marital status and educational homogamy
The role of racial/ethnic identity in the association between racial discrimination and psychiatric disorders: A buffer or exacerbator
The present study tests whether and how racial/ethnic identity moderates the psychological burden associated with racial discrimination. The theoretical concept of identity-relevant stressors suggests that racial discrimination will be associated with stronger psychological burden for people who put more values on their racial/ethnic backgrounds (i.e., racial/ethnic identity as an exacerbator). Conversely, racial/ethnic identity may be a protecti…
Stress Proliferation? Precarity and Work-Family Conflict at the Intersection of Gender and Household Income
We theorize a stress proliferation process whereby the stress of job precarity translates into the stress of work-to-family conflict (WFC). We test whether this process differs by gender and household income. Using four cross-sectional waves of the General Social Survey ( N = 2,340), we find a positive association between job insecurity and WFC for women but not men. Examined by household income levels, the association is found only for responden…
Who loses income during the Covid-19 outbreak? Evidence from China
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every facet of society. In addition to directly affecting population health, the economic impact of this social shock has begun to be palpable at the individual level. Situated in this context, this research note draws on data collected from Mainland China in March–April, 2020 to examine the individual-level economic toll of the COVID-19 outbreak. We investigate how individuals’ income (when surveyed) has cha…
Working More, Less or the Same During Covid-19? A Mixed Method, Intersectional Analysis of Remote Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed where paid work is done. Workers able to do so have been required to work remotely. We draw on survey data collected in October 2020 from a nationally representative sample of 3,017 remote workers, as well as qualitative survey data collected from 231 remote workers, to examine perceived changes in work hours from before to during the pandemic. Results indicate women are at greater risk of change (either a ma…
The role of racial/ethnic identity in the association between racial discrimination and psychiatric disorders: A buffer or exacerbator
The present study tests whether and how racial/ethnic identity moderates the psychological burden associated with racial discrimination. The theoretical concept of identity-relevant stressors suggests that racial discrimination will be associated with stronger psychological burden for people who put more values on their racial/ethnic backgrounds (i.e., racial/ethnic identity as an exacerbator). Conversely, racial/ethnic identity may be a protecti…
Ongoing Remote Work, Returning to Working at Work, or in between during Covid-19: What Promotes Subjective Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a massive turn to remote work, followed by subsequent shifts for many into hybrid or fully returning to the office. To understand the patterned dynamics of subjective well-being associated with shifting places of work, we conducted a nationally representative panel survey (October 2020 and April 2021) of U.S. employees who worked remotely at some point since the pandemic (N = 1,817). Cluster analysis identified …
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China's Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
Research on stigma and discrimination during COVID-19 has focused on racism and xenophobia in Western countries. In comparison, little research has considered stigma processes, discrimination, and their public health implications in non-Western contexts. This study draws on quantitative survey data (N = 7,942) and qualitative interview data (N = 50) to understand the emergence, experiences, and mental health implications of stigma and discriminat…
Stress Proliferation? Precarity and Work-Family Conflict at the Intersection of Gender and Household Income
We theorize a stress proliferation process whereby the stress of job precarity translates into the stress of work-to-family conflict (WFC). We test whether this process differs by gender and household income. Using four cross-sectional waves of the General Social Survey ( N = 2,340), we find a positive association between job insecurity and WFC for women but not men. Examined by household income levels, the association is found only for responden…
Constellations of gender ideology, earnings arrangements, and marital satisfaction: A comparison across four East Asian societies
Recent research conducted in Western countries highlights gender ideology as a multidimensional concept. Little, however, is known in East Asia about the patterns and consequences of constellations of gender ideology (i.e. clusters of attitudes towards gender relations in different domains). Using data from 3,541 married respondents in the 2006 East Asian Social Survey (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), we identify four constellations—egali…
Rising educational gradients in mortality among U.S. whites: What are the roles of marital status and educational homogamy
The Shifting Stress of Working Parents: An Examination of Dual Pandemic Disruptions-Remote Work and Remote Schooling
Working remotely at least some of the time has long been seen as promoting a better integration of work and care obligations, even though prepandemic research is mixed as to the extent to which parents benefit emotionally from remote work. We exploit dual social experiments in schooling and work spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic to understand any stress-reducing effects of working from home under different school-closing state policy contexts. The…
Native-immigrant occupational segregation and worker health in the United States, 2004–2014
Turning point or selection? The effect of rustication on subsequent health for the Chinese Cultural Revolution cohort
The Psychological Cost of Racial Discrimination: What is the Role of Residential Segregation
Racial discrimination is known to harm health, but to what extent the health burden of racial discrimination is contingent on residential contexts is understudied. This study examines the moderating role of racial residential segregation in the relationship between racial discrimination and psychological distress. Nationally representative data from the 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study were merged with metropolitan‐level data fr…
Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant Mortality Among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983–2013: A Decomposition Analysis
The United States compares unfavorably with other high-income countries in infant mortality, which recent literature has attributed to the poor birth outcomes among disadvantaged (i.e., unmarried and less-educated) mothers. Describing and decomposing the trend of the concentration of infant mortality among disadvantaged mothers thus provides important clues for improving birth outcomes. We develop the infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI) to…
Work time reduction via a 4-day workweek finds improvements in workers' well-being
Work-schedule instability and workers’ health and well-being across different socioeconomic strata in China
The Future(s) of Work? Disparities Around Changing Job Conditions When Remote/Hybrid or Returning to Working at Work
The future of work is ambiguous at best. Despite widespread shifts to remote/hybrid work during the COVID-19 lockdown, there is a paucity of knowledge about changing job conditions in tandem with different work locales. Is the move to remote/hybrid work a disrupter or accentuator of existing norms and inequalities? Drawing on nationally representative, four-wave panel survey data (October 2020 to April 2022) collected from U.S. workers who spent …
Breadwinning, Occupational Sex Composition, and Stress: Examining Psychological Distress and Heavy Drinking at the Intersection of Gender and Race
Research on couples' earnings arrangements has focused on men's and women's (non)conformance to the male-breadwinner/female-homemaker model. By doing so, research has ignored the following: Breadwinning can be a source of stress for men; the male-breadwinner/female-homemaker model does not apply to all racial groups; and the proportion of women in an occupation may moderate the stress process associated with divergent earnings arrangements. To ad…
Study on isolation of chemical constituents from Sophora Flavescens ait. And their anti-glioma effects
BACKGROUND: Sophora flavescens Ait. is a traditional Chinese medicine with a long history in China. It is mainly used in the treatment of heat dysentery and similar ailments in the clinical. The objective of this paper was to isolate, purify and identify alkaloids from Sophora flavescens Ait. and to explore their inhibitory effects on C6 glioma cells. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Column chromatography, extraction and NMR spectroscopy were used to struc…
Turning point or selection? The effect of rustication on subsequent health for the Chinese Cultural Revolution cohort
Native-immigrant occupational segregation and worker health in the United States, 2004–2014
Rising educational gradients in mortality among U.S. whites: What are the roles of marital status and educational homogamy
The role of racial/ethnic identity in the association between racial discrimination and psychiatric disorders: A buffer or exacerbator
The present study tests whether and how racial/ethnic identity moderates the psychological burden associated with racial discrimination. The theoretical concept of identity-relevant stressors suggests that racial discrimination will be associated with stronger psychological burden for people who put more values on their racial/ethnic backgrounds (i.e., racial/ethnic identity as an exacerbator). Conversely, racial/ethnic identity may be a protecti…
Stress Proliferation? Precarity and Work-Family Conflict at the Intersection of Gender and Household Income
We theorize a stress proliferation process whereby the stress of job precarity translates into the stress of work-to-family conflict (WFC). We test whether this process differs by gender and household income. Using four cross-sectional waves of the General Social Survey ( N = 2,340), we find a positive association between job insecurity and WFC for women but not men. Examined by household income levels, the association is found only for responden…
Who loses income during the Covid-19 outbreak? Evidence from China
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every facet of society. In addition to directly affecting population health, the economic impact of this social shock has begun to be palpable at the individual level. Situated in this context, this research note draws on data collected from Mainland China in March–April, 2020 to examine the individual-level economic toll of the COVID-19 outbreak. We investigate how individuals’ income (when surveyed) has cha…
The Psychological Cost of Racial Discrimination: What is the Role of Residential Segregation
Racial discrimination is known to harm health, but to what extent the health burden of racial discrimination is contingent on residential contexts is understudied. This study examines the moderating role of racial residential segregation in the relationship between racial discrimination and psychological distress. Nationally representative data from the 2002–2003 National Latino and Asian American Study were merged with metropolitan‐level data fr…
Understanding Trends in the Concentration of Infant Mortality Among Disadvantaged White and Black Mothers in the United States, 1983–2013: A Decomposition Analysis
The United States compares unfavorably with other high-income countries in infant mortality, which recent literature has attributed to the poor birth outcomes among disadvantaged (i.e., unmarried and less-educated) mothers. Describing and decomposing the trend of the concentration of infant mortality among disadvantaged mothers thus provides important clues for improving birth outcomes. We develop the infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI) to…
Educational Differences in Risk of All-Cause Mortality After Acute Cardiovascular Events: Examining Cohort and Gender Variations
Acute cardiovascular events are prevalent in older adults. In this study, following a sample of respondents from the 1996–2016 Health and Retirement Study after diagnosis of myocardial infarction or stroke, we used discrete-time event history models to study mortality post diagnosis. We found an educational gradient in mortality following myocardial infarction or stroke with the better educated surviving longer, even as the gradient was weaker fo…
Constellations of gender ideology, earnings arrangements, and marital satisfaction: A comparison across four East Asian societies
Recent research conducted in Western countries highlights gender ideology as a multidimensional concept. Little, however, is known in East Asia about the patterns and consequences of constellations of gender ideology (i.e. clusters of attitudes towards gender relations in different domains). Using data from 3,541 married respondents in the 2006 East Asian Social Survey (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), we identify four constellations—egali…
Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Health Benefits of Tertiary Education: What Are the Roles of the Skills Gap and the Earnings Gap
Recent studies have shown that the relationship between educational attainment and health varies across countries. To better understand the cross-national variation in the health benefits of higher education, we theorize and empirically examine two country-level factors—the skills gap and the earnings gap between adults with tertiary and intermediate education. We expect the skills gap and the earnings gap to moderate educational gradients in hea…
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China's Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
Research on stigma and discrimination during COVID-19 has focused on racism and xenophobia in Western countries. In comparison, little research has considered stigma processes, discrimination, and their public health implications in non-Western contexts. This study draws on quantitative survey data (N = 7,942) and qualitative interview data (N = 50) to understand the emergence, experiences, and mental health implications of stigma and discriminat…
Breadwinning, Occupational Sex Composition, and Stress: Examining Psychological Distress and Heavy Drinking at the Intersection of Gender and Race
Research on couples' earnings arrangements has focused on men's and women's (non)conformance to the male-breadwinner/female-homemaker model. By doing so, research has ignored the following: Breadwinning can be a source of stress for men; the male-breadwinner/female-homemaker model does not apply to all racial groups; and the proportion of women in an occupation may moderate the stress process associated with divergent earnings arrangements. To ad…
Working More, Less or the Same During Covid-19? A Mixed Method, Intersectional Analysis of Remote Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed where paid work is done. Workers able to do so have been required to work remotely. We draw on survey data collected in October 2020 from a nationally representative sample of 3,017 remote workers, as well as qualitative survey data collected from 231 remote workers, to examine perceived changes in work hours from before to during the pandemic. Results indicate women are at greater risk of change (either a ma…
State Contexts, Job Insecurity, and Subjective Well-being in the Time of Covid-19
The Early 2020 Covid-19 Outbreak in China and Subsequent Flourishing: Medium-Term Effects and Intervening Mechanisms
In early 2020, a COVID-19 outbreak occurred in Hubei Province of China. Exploiting the geographic concentration of China’s COVID-19 cases in Hubei (the initial epicenter), we compare Hubei and non-Hubei residents to examine the medium-term effect of exposure to the COVID-19 outbreak on mental well-being. We examine flourishing—a comprehensive assessment of well-being that is not merely the absence of mental illness—and investigate a broad set of …
Ongoing Remote Work, Returning to Working at Work, or in between during Covid-19: What Promotes Subjective Well-Being
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a massive turn to remote work, followed by subsequent shifts for many into hybrid or fully returning to the office. To understand the patterned dynamics of subjective well-being associated with shifting places of work, we conducted a nationally representative panel survey (October 2020 and April 2021) of U.S. employees who worked remotely at some point since the pandemic (N = 1,817). Cluster analysis identified …
Work-schedule instability and workers’ health and well-being across different socioeconomic strata in China
The Shifting Stress of Working Parents: An Examination of Dual Pandemic Disruptions-Remote Work and Remote Schooling
Working remotely at least some of the time has long been seen as promoting a better integration of work and care obligations, even though prepandemic research is mixed as to the extent to which parents benefit emotionally from remote work. We exploit dual social experiments in schooling and work spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic to understand any stress-reducing effects of working from home under different school-closing state policy contexts. The…
Integration of effective antecedent rainfall to improve the performance of rainfall thresholds for landslide early warning in Wanzhou District, China
Work-place Mismatch, Work-Family Conflict, and Psychological Well-being among Parents
Remote and hybrid work have received much attention since the expansion of off-site work following the COVID-19 pandemic. Research on the effects of these arrangements on workers’ well-being, however, is mixed, likely because studies rarely account for workers’ workplace preferences. Using data from the 2023 wave of the Study on U.S. Parents’ Divisions of Labor During COVID-19 (SPDLC), we assess the association between work-place mismatch (misali…
Economic Risks and Mental Health During China's 2020 Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Insecure employment and irregular income have become important components of risk in contemporary society. This mixed-methods study investigates the social correlates and mental health implications of economic risks during China's 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Given China's uneven geographic distribution of COVID-19 and its distinctive institutional arrangements, we theorise and empirically test social disparities by region and work unit ( danwei ). Na…
Whose Parents Matter? Intergenerational Transmission of Earnings Arrangements in Different-Sex Couples: A Research Note
Over the past few decades, the United States has witnessed a gender revolution and transformation in family economic arrangements. However, little research has investigated the intergenerational transmission of earnings arrangements within different-sex couples, even though such knowledge illuminates the mechanisms underlying changes and continuities in the economic organization and gender relations within U.S. families. We use a life course pers…
Work time reduction via a 4-day workweek finds improvements in workers' well-being
Psychology (19 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Demography (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (12 works) · Demographic economics (10 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · China (8 works)