Xiang Zhou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xiang Zhou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xiang |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhou |
| SIGNATURE | ZHOU X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8634-7360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 87 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 401 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Fostering critical thinking and argumentative writing in EFL learners: A collaborative reading-based creative writing approach
Can media multitasking enhance creative performance? Insights from self-determination theory
Motivated to Communicate: A Resource-Based Perspective on Chinese SMEs’ Social Media Use for International Outreach
This study examines how internal resources influence Chinese SMEs’ international communication behaviors via a stratified system of communicative motivations. Drawing on an integrative framework that combines the Resource-Based View (RBV), Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT), and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, it develops and empirically tests a three-tier Resource–Motivation–Behavior (RMB) model. Based on survey data from 732 export-oriented SMEs…
The relationship between alexithymia and loneliness: A meta-analysis
Neuroimaging biomarkers in school‐aged children with autism: MRI ‐measured lipid content in the limbic system
Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder. Alterations in brain lipids may elucidate ASD's neurophysiological mechanisms, but evidence remains limited. This study aims to assess whether the MRI‐measured lipid content in limbic brain regions could serve as novel biomarkers for neurophysiological changes in school‐aged children with ASD. Methods This prospective study included 98 school‐aged (7–16 years) chi…
Poor Neighborhoods, Bad Schools? A High-Dimensional Model of Place-Based Disparities in Academic Achievement
Persistent disparities in academic achievement between students from high- and low- poverty neighborhoods are widely attributed to differences in school quality. Using nationally representative data from more than 18,000 students and nearly 1,000 elementary schools, we examine how the schools serving students from different neighborhoods vary across more than 160 characteristics, including detailed measures of their composition, resources, instru…
Predictors and outcomes of interminority friendships in the U.S: A systematized review
Advancing new energy industry quality via artificial intelligence-driven integration of ESG principles
This study seeks to investigate the assessment of new energy enterprises’ performance by integrating Environmental Social Governance (ESG) using artificial intelligence, aiming to enhance the high-quality development of the new energy industry. Initially, an ESG-centered performance evaluation system is established for new energy enterprises, encompassing four dimensions: financial, environmental, social, and governance performance. Subsequently,…
Urban foraging behavior in public green spaces: A case study of Nanjing’s central urban area
Urban foraging, the practice of collecting wild plants and fungi in cities, is a widely practiced method of urban food acquisition worldwide. Some studies have shown that enhancing interaction between urban residents and nature benefits human health and well-being. However, research on urban foraging in China remains limited. This study seeks to fill that gap by investigating the social and cultural backgrounds, primary foraging locations, motiva…
Investigation and analysis of the radiation protection status of radiation workers during the peri-pregnancy period
Objective: Radiation exposure during pregnancy poses serious risks to fetal health, including increased likelihood of miscarriage, preterm birth, congenital anomalies and developmental disorders, while also impacting maternal occupational safety. This study aimed to assess the concerns and needs of radiation practitioners regarding radiation exposure during the perinatal period, with a focus on radiation protection. Methods: A questionnaire surve…
Unity without uniformity: Humans’ social creativity strategy under generative artificial intelligence salience
摘要: 横空出世的生成式人工智能(AI)模糊了AI与人类心智间的界限, 人们会如何化解这种相似性值得关注。基于社会认同理论, 通过4项递进研究, 系统探讨了生成式AI凸显下个体社会创造策略的使用情况, 并考察了人类中心主义的调节作用。结果发现:个体会创造性地定义人类心智与生成式AI的区分方式(研究1), 并运用此种社会创造策略来应对生成式AI凸显(研究2~4)。此外, 人类中心主义会增强生成式AI凸显情境下个体的社会创造策略使用程度(研究3~4)。研究结果揭示了生成式AI凸显情境下个体应用社会创造策略的具体表现形式及其积极意义, 阐明了人类中心主义潜在的建设性作用, 并为智能时代如何借助社会创造策略巧妙推动人类与AI和谐共生提供了新的启发
A Systematic Review of Help-Seeking Barriers for Racial-Ethnic Minority Caregivers Accessing Autism Diagnostic and Intervention Services
Caregivers play an essential role in early help-seeking and intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Caregivers, therefore, provide a crucial role in helping to address the racial and ethnic disparity identified in accessing ASD intervention and diagnostic services (Bejarano-Martín et al., Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 50 (9), 3380–3394, 2020). Unfortunately, racial-ethnic minority caregivers of children with…
Help-seeking experiences among Burmese American families of children with autism spectrum disorder: A multi-informant qualitative study
Burmese refugees, constituting one of the largest group of refugees admitted to the United States, accounting for 21% of total admissions in the past decade. Using a multi-informed perspective, this research study sought to understand the help-seeking experiences of Burmese American refugee families regarding the diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder. In this study, we conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with 16 individ…
Social anxiety and smartphone addiction among college students: The mediating role of loneliness
Social anxiety is significantly correlated with smartphone addiction, and loneliness partially mediating their relationship. Reducing loneliness can prevent smartphone addiction among college students with social anxiety
AI aversion or appreciation? A capability–personalization framework and a meta-analytic review
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming human life. While some studies find that people prefer humans over AI (AI aversion), others find the opposite (AI appreciation). To reconcile these conflicting findings, we introduce the Capability-Personalization Framework. This theoretical framework posits that when deciding between AI and humans in a context, individuals focus on two dimensions: (a) perceived capability of AI and (b) perceived neces…
High-strength cellulose fibres enabled by molecular packing
Farmers’ resettlement decision-making in China's flood detention areas
Resolving migration challenges in China's flood detention areas hinges on effectively guiding farmers' relocation. This study aims to construct an intermediary framework integrating relocation willingness and capacity, to more accurately reveal the mechanisms through which external environmental support factors influence farmers' resettlement decision-making behaviour, and to enhance the explanatory and predictive capacity for such behaviour. We …
The Minority Family Stress Model ( MFSM ): Reconceptualizing minority stress within family systems
As global family structures diversify and marginalized communities gain visibility, traditional health disparity frameworks like Minority Stress Theory remain limited by their individualistic focus and fail to capture how chronic marginalization impacts families collectively. In response, we propose the Minority Family Stress Model (MFSM), a family health disparity mechanism framework that situates minority stress within ecological family systems…
Impact and Gender Differences in Intragenerational Mobility and Fertility Intentions in China
With the growing prevalence of dual‐earner families in China, fertility decisions are increasingly influenced by experiences in the work domain. While previous research has explored the relationship between static occupational status and fertility intentions, it has largely overlooked how career development affects these dynamics. Changes in occupational status alter both the material resources available for childbearing and the balance between w…
The Lotus Clinical Supervision Model for Linguistically Marginalized International Trainees
Despite the growing number of international trainees in mental health professions and their contribution to the professions, evidence-based clinical supervision models have not been developed for this population. This study aimed to create a social-justice-oriented clinical supervision model that focuses on linguistically marginalized international (LMI) trainees. Using constructivist grounded theory, we interviewed ten clinical supervisors nomin…
Indigenous healing movements in China and the Philippines: Possibilities and challenges for decolonial and liberation psychologies
In response to enduring historical colonialism and contemporary neocolonial influences, Indigenous Psychology movements in Asia have emerged as a counterforce to Western-centric hegemonic psychology. These movements strive for holistic healing that is deeply rooted in diverse local practices and wisdom. This introductory article positions Indigenous Psychology movements within the broader discourse on decolonial and liberation psychologies, highl…
The mechanism of othering: A discourse analysis of the construction of China's image in EurActiv and Euronews
The European Union (EU)–China relationship, pivotal in major diplomatic powers, has undergone significant adjustments in recent years, highlighting the importance to study how the EU media portray the image of China. Within the paradigm of othering, this critical discourse analysis selected two EU media, EurActiv and Euronews, with a sample of 117 news reports from 2013 to 2021 from Factiva, to examine the discursive structures and strategies pre…
The cognitive benefit of a window view
Causal inference with latent outcomes
While causal inference has become front and center in empirical political science, we know little about how to analyze causality with latent outcomes, such as political values, beliefs, and attitudes. In this article, we develop a framework for defining, identifying, and estimating the causal effect of an observed treatment on a latent outcome, which we call the latent treatment effect (LTE). We describe a set of assumptions that allow us to iden…
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model
Social mobility scholars have long been interested in estimating the effect of intergenerational mobility, typically measured by differences in the socioeconomic status between parents and offspring, on later-life outcomes of offspring. In a 2022 article 'Heterogeneous Effects of Intergenerational Social Mobility: An Improved Method and New Evidence,' Luo proposes a new approach called the mobility contrast model (MCM) to define and estimate mobi…
Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the "Meritocratic Power" of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility
Intergenerational mobility is higher among college graduates than among people with lower levels of education. In light of this finding, researchers have characterized a college degree as a great equalizer leveling the playing field, and proposed that expanding higher education would promote mobility. This line of reasoning rests on the implicit assumption that the relatively high mobility observed among college graduates reflects a causal effect…
Within the Boundaries of Politics: News Framing of Sars in China and the United States
This research examined news frames in coverage of SARS by newspapers in China and the United States. The assumption was that with the adoption of Western news values and practices, the Chinese press would exhibit news frames similar to those found in Western news. The results showed the presence of economic consequences, responsibility, conflict, leadership, and human-interest news frames in both the U.S. and Chinese newspapers. Depending on the …
Educational Inequality, Educational Expansion, and Intergenerational Income Persistence in the United States
The children of high-income parents often become high-income adults, while their low-income peers often become low-income adults. Education plays a central role in this intergenerational income persistence. Because education-based inequalities grew in recent decades, many scholars predicted that intergenerational income persistence would increase. However, previous research suggests that it remained stable across recent cohorts. We address this p…
Market Transition, Industrialization, and Social Mobility Trends in Postrevolution China
This study examines trends in intergenerational class mobility in China by analyzing six comparable, nationally representative surveys between 1996 and 2012. Defying a simplistic, unidirectional account, the authors report two countervailing trends in social mobility in postrevolution China. On the one hand, the authors find a decline in social fluidity following China’s transition from state socialism to a market economy, as the link between ori…
The political blogosphere in China: A content analysis of the blogs regarding the dismissal of Shanghai leader Chen Liangyu
Despite the rapid growth of blogging in China, little is known about the communicative processes of blogs and their implications for China. This current study aims to bridge that gap by specifically looking at the political blogs posted on the NetEase, one of the largest portal websites in China, regarding the dismissal of Shanghai leader Chen Liangyu. Results from a content analysis indicate that bloggers, giving quick responses to the event, we…
Increasing Returns to Education, Changing Labor Force Structure, and the Rise of Earnings Inequality in Urban China, 1996-2010
Earnings inequality in urban China has grown rapidly the past two decades. During the same period, the composition of the urban labor force has been dramatically altered by three large-scale structural changes: (1) the expansion of tertiary education; (2) the decline of state sector employment; and (3) a surge in rural-to-urban migration. In this article, I examine how these institutional and demographic shifts have shaped the recent upswing in e…
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Presence of Self-Selection: A Propensity Score Perspective
An essential feature common to all empirical social research is variability across units of analysis. Individuals differ not only in background characteristics but also in how they respond to a particular treatment, intervention, or stimulation. Moreover, individuals may self-select into treatment on the basis of anticipated treatment effects. To study heterogeneous treatment effects in the presence of self-selection, Heckman and Vytlacil develop…
Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap
How does higher education shape the Black-White earnings gap? It may help close the gap if Black youth benefit more from attending and completing college than do White youth. On the other hand, Black college-goers are less likely to complete college relative to White students, and this disparity in degree completion helps reproduce racial inequality. In this study, we use a novel causal decomposition and a debiased machine learning method to isol…
A Regression-with-Residuals Method for Estimating Controlled Direct Effects
Political scientists are increasingly interested in causal mediation, and to this end, recent studies focus on estimating a quantity called the controlled direct effect (CDE). The CDE measures the strength of the causal relationship between a treatment and outcome when a mediator is fixed at a given value. To estimate the CDE, Joffe and Greene (2009) and Vansteelandt (2009) developed the method of sequential g-estimation, which was introduced to …
Ethnic socialization and ethnic identity development among internationally adopted Korean American adolescents: A seven-year follow-up
The relationship between ethnic socialization by parents, peers, and ethnic identity development was examined over a 7-year time span in a sample of 116 internationally adopted Korean American adolescents. Parent report data was collected in 2007 (Time 1 [T1]) when the adopted child was between 7 and 13 years old and again in 2014 at ages 13 to 20 years old (Time 2 [T2]). Adolescent report data also was collected in 2014. We examined differences …
Deliberativeness of Online Political Discussion: A content analysis of the Guangzhou Daily website
Citizen participation in online political debate and the Internet's effect on Chinese society have become an important research field. However, few studies so far have examined the use of interactive functions by Chinese newspaper websites to facilitate online discussion of civil issues, or the quality of public debate on the websites of Chinese online newspapers. Using the concept of the public sphere as its theoretical framework, this article a…
Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning
This article reviews recent advances in causal inference relevant to sociology. We focus on a selective subset of contributions aligning with four broad topics: causal effect identification and estimation in general, causal effect heterogeneity, causal effect mediation, and temporal and spatial interference. We describe how machine learning, as an estimation strategy, can be effectively combined with causal inference, which has been traditionally…
Hierarchical Item Response Models for Analyzing Public Opinion
Opinion surveys often employ multiple items to measure the respondent’s underlying value, belief, or attitude. To analyze such types of data, researchers have often followed a two-step approach by first constructing a composite measure and then using it in subsequent analysis. This paper presents a class of hierarchical item response models that help integrate measurement and analysis. In this approach, individual responses to multiple items stem…
Ethnic identity developmental trajectories during the transition to college
The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine the trajectories of ethnic identity exploration and commitment in 538 ethnic-racial minority students during their first 2 years of college. Multilevel modeling analyses demonstrated ethnic identity development continued as students transitioned to college. Specifically, ethnic identity exploration increased in quadratic and linear slopes, whereas ethnic identity commitment increased in a linear …
Tracing Causal Paths from Experimental and Observational Data
The study of causal mechanisms abounds in political science, and causal mediation analysis has grown rapidly across different subfields. Yet, conventional methods for analyzing causal mechanisms are difficult to use when the causal effect of interest involves multiple mediators that are potentially causally dependent—a common scenario in political science applications. This article introduces a general framework for tracing causal paths with mult…
Residual Balancing: A Method of Constructing Weights for Marginal Structural Models
When making causal inferences, post-treatment confounders complicate analyses of time-varying treatment effects. Conditioning on these variables naively to estimate marginal effects may inappropriately block causal pathways and may induce spurious associations between treatment and the outcome, leading to bias. To avoid such bias, researchers often use marginal structural models (MSMs) with inverse probability weighting (IPW). However, IPW requir…
Marginal Treatment Effects from a Propensity Score Perspective
We offer a propensity score perspective to interpret and analyze the marginal treatment effect (MTE). Specifically, we redefine MTE as the expected treatment effect conditional on the propensity score and a latent variable representing unobserved resistance to treatment. As with the original MTE, the redefined MTE can be used as a building block for constructing standard causal estimands. The weights associated with the new MTE, however, are simp…
A Nonparametric Index of Stratification
The author presents a nonparametric approach to measuring stratification that highlights the distinction between stratification and inequality. Using pairwise comparison of ranks, the author develops an index of stratification that gauges the overall degree to which population subgroups occupy distinct strata with respect to a hierarchical outcome. This new index possesses a number of desirable properties that are not satisfied by existing measur…
Propensity Score-based Methods Versus MTE-based Methods in Causal Inference: Identification, Estimation, and Application
Since the seminal introduction of the propensity score (PS) by Rosenbaum and Rubin, PS-based methods have been widely used for drawing causal inferences in the behavioral and social sciences. However, the PS approach depends on the ignorability assumption: there are no unobserved confounders once observed covariates are taken into account. For situations where this assumption may be violated, Heckman and his associates have recently developed a n…
Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach
A growing body of social science research investigates whether the economic payoff to a college education is heterogeneous - in particular, whether disadvantaged youth can benefit more from attending and completing college relative to their more advantaged peers. Scholars, however, have employed different analytical strategies and reported mixed findings. To shed light on this literature, I propose a causal mediation approach to conceptualizing, …
Shrinkage Estimation of Log-odds Ratios for Comparing Mobility Tables
Statistical analysis of mobility tables has long played a pivotal role in comparative stratification research. This article proposes a shrinkage estimator of the log-odds ratio for comparing mobility tables. Building on an empirical Bayes framework, the shrinkage estimator improves estimation efficiency by “borrowing strength” across multiple tables while placing no restrictions on the pattern of association within tables. Numerical simulation sh…
Sexual assault and harassment (SAH) victimization disparities between sexual minority and heterosexual Chinese youth
Sexual assault and harassment (SAH) has become an increasing global concern that disproportionately impacts gender and sexual minority youth, yet research is scarce outside Western nations. In addition, sexual assault and sexual harassment are closely related experiences in both academic inquiries on sexual victimization and public discussion in the global #Metoo movement. Drawing from a large Chinese college student sample (N = 50,818), we inves…
Causal inference with latent outcomes
While causal inference has become front and center in empirical political science, we know little about how to analyze causality with latent outcomes, such as political values, beliefs, and attitudes. In this article, we develop a framework for defining, identifying, and estimating the causal effect of an observed treatment on a latent outcome, which we call the latent treatment effect (LTE). We describe a set of assumptions that allow us to iden…
Cultural Dimensions and Framing the Internet in China: A Cross-Cultural Study of Newspapers' Coverage in Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and the UK
The current study introduces Hofstede's cultural dimensions into framing research by conducting a cross-cultural comparative analysis of news coverage of the Internet in China from 2000 to 2004 in Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and the UK. Differences were found in terms of both the salience of Internet-related issues and the use of news frames across societies. The patterns of cultural influence of cultural dimensions with interaction effects vari…
Hidden among the hidden: Transracially adopted Korean American adults raising multiracial children
The parenting practices of both transracially adopted Korean American adults and multiracial families are often overlooked in developmental science, yet are important to address, given that the majority of Korean adoptees are now adults with families of their own and given rapid increases in the multiracial population. This qualitative study examined the cultural socialization beliefs and practices among transracially adopted Korean Americans who…
Within the Boundaries of Politics: News Framing of Sars in China and the United States
This research examined news frames in coverage of SARS by newspapers in China and the United States. The assumption was that with the adoption of Western news values and practices, the Chinese press would exhibit news frames similar to those found in Western news. The results showed the presence of economic consequences, responsibility, conflict, leadership, and human-interest news frames in both the U.S. and Chinese newspapers. Depending on the …
E-Government in China: A Content Analysis of National and Provincial Web Sites
The Chinese government has actively encouraged and invested in the growth of the Internet to capture the technology's vast commercial potential, while exerting state control. Even before the country was fully connected to the global "network of networks, " China began to implement programs that would facilitate e-government. Despite some valuable examinations of e-government in China, no studies were found that systematically explored the content…
Cultural Dimensions and Framing the Internet in China: A Cross-Cultural Study of Newspapers' Coverage in Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and the UK
The current study introduces Hofstede's cultural dimensions into framing research by conducting a cross-cultural comparative analysis of news coverage of the Internet in China from 2000 to 2004 in Hong Kong, Singapore, the US and the UK. Differences were found in terms of both the salience of Internet-related issues and the use of news frames across societies. The patterns of cultural influence of cultural dimensions with interaction effects vari…
Deliberativeness of Online Political Discussion: A content analysis of the Guangzhou Daily website
Citizen participation in online political debate and the Internet's effect on Chinese society have become an important research field. However, few studies so far have examined the use of interactive functions by Chinese newspaper websites to facilitate online discussion of civil issues, or the quality of public debate on the websites of Chinese online newspapers. Using the concept of the public sphere as its theoretical framework, this article a…
The political blogosphere in China: A content analysis of the blogs regarding the dismissal of Shanghai leader Chen Liangyu
Despite the rapid growth of blogging in China, little is known about the communicative processes of blogs and their implications for China. This current study aims to bridge that gap by specifically looking at the political blogs posted on the NetEase, one of the largest portal websites in China, regarding the dismissal of Shanghai leader Chen Liangyu. Results from a content analysis indicate that bloggers, giving quick responses to the event, we…
A Nonparametric Index of Stratification
The author presents a nonparametric approach to measuring stratification that highlights the distinction between stratification and inequality. Using pairwise comparison of ranks, the author develops an index of stratification that gauges the overall degree to which population subgroups occupy distinct strata with respect to a hierarchical outcome. This new index possesses a number of desirable properties that are not satisfied by existing measur…
The Influence of Leader on Group Member’s Cooperation in Common Resource Dilemmas: The Influence of Leader on Group Member’s Cooperation in Common Resource Dilemmas
摘要: 过去社会困境的领导研究大多都以被试作为领导, 发现贴上领导标签后, 被试倾向于拿取更多的公共资源, 从而有碍公共利益的实现。本研究指出, 如果领导的背叛行为能够使群体成员表现出自我节制行为的话, 那么设置领导则有可能促进公共利益的实现。研究通过三个实验, 考察领导与普通群体成员不同的行为方式以及领导的产生方式对群体成员行为的影响, 并检验公平理论和社会认同理论的解释力。研究结果表明, 领导表现出背叛行为时, 被试表现出更多的自我节制行为; 指派领导及外群体选举领导背叛时, 被试表现出更多的自我节制行为, 验证了社会认同理论的正确性
Increasing Returns to Education, Changing Labor Force Structure, and the Rise of Earnings Inequality in Urban China, 1996-2010
Earnings inequality in urban China has grown rapidly the past two decades. During the same period, the composition of the urban labor force has been dramatically altered by three large-scale structural changes: (1) the expansion of tertiary education; (2) the decline of state sector employment; and (3) a surge in rural-to-urban migration. In this article, I examine how these institutional and demographic shifts have shaped the recent upswing in e…
Korean Adoptee Identity: Adoptive and Ethnic Identity Profiles of Adopted Korean Americans
Adopted Korean adolescents face the task of grappling with their identity as Koreans and coming to terms with their adoptive status. In order to explore these dual identities, the authors conducted a person-centered study of the identity profiles of 189 adopted Korean American adolescents. Using cluster analytic procedures, the study examined patterns of commitment to ethnic and adoptive identities, revealing six conceptually unique identity clus…
Shrinkage Estimation of Log-odds Ratios for Comparing Mobility Tables
Statistical analysis of mobility tables has long played a pivotal role in comparative stratification research. This article proposes a shrinkage estimator of the log-odds ratio for comparing mobility tables. Building on an empirical Bayes framework, the shrinkage estimator improves estimation efficiency by “borrowing strength” across multiple tables while placing no restrictions on the pattern of association within tables. Numerical simulation sh…
Differences in Career Decision-Making Profiles Between American and Chinese University Students: The Relative Strength of Mediating Mechanisms Across Cultures
The current research examined differences in career decision-making profiles (CDMP) between American and Chinese university students, as well as the mediating mechanisms possibly underlying these cultural differences. The results of a survey among American ( n = 929) and Chinese ( n = 945) undergraduates showed that Chinese participants scored significantly higher on consulting with others, desire to please others, willingness to compromise, depe…
Exploring the mechanisms of context effects in Chinese stop-vowel-stop sequences
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Propensity Score-based Methods Versus MTE-based Methods in Causal Inference: Identification, Estimation, and Application
Since the seminal introduction of the propensity score (PS) by Rosenbaum and Rubin, PS-based methods have been widely used for drawing causal inferences in the behavioral and social sciences. However, the PS approach depends on the ignorability assumption: there are no unobserved confounders once observed covariates are taken into account. For situations where this assumption may be violated, Heckman and his associates have recently developed a n…
Ethnic socialization and ethnic identity development among internationally adopted Korean American adolescents: A seven-year follow-up
The relationship between ethnic socialization by parents, peers, and ethnic identity development was examined over a 7-year time span in a sample of 116 internationally adopted Korean American adolescents. Parent report data was collected in 2007 (Time 1 [T1]) when the adopted child was between 7 and 13 years old and again in 2014 at ages 13 to 20 years old (Time 2 [T2]). Adolescent report data also was collected in 2014. We examined differences …
Understanding the needs, preferences, and feasibility for parent training in Hmong Americans
Greenness and Pricing Decisions of Cooperative Supply Chains Considering Altruistic Preferences
With the development of the economy and science technology, global resource shortages and environmental pressures have become the focus of attention. More and more consumers tend to buy non-polluting and environmentally friendly green products, and many manufacturers and retailers are beginning to produce or sell green products to enhance their competitive advantage in the market. Considering the green preference attributes of consumers, the altr…
Marginal Treatment Effects from a Propensity Score Perspective
We offer a propensity score perspective to interpret and analyze the marginal treatment effect (MTE). Specifically, we redefine MTE as the expected treatment effect conditional on the propensity score and a latent variable representing unobserved resistance to treatment. As with the original MTE, the redefined MTE can be used as a building block for constructing standard causal estimands. The weights associated with the new MTE, however, are simp…
Ethnic identity developmental trajectories during the transition to college
The goal of this longitudinal study was to examine the trajectories of ethnic identity exploration and commitment in 538 ethnic-racial minority students during their first 2 years of college. Multilevel modeling analyses demonstrated ethnic identity development continued as students transitioned to college. Specifically, ethnic identity exploration increased in quadratic and linear slopes, whereas ethnic identity commitment increased in a linear …
Educational Inequality, Educational Expansion, and Intergenerational Income Persistence in the United States
The children of high-income parents often become high-income adults, while their low-income peers often become low-income adults. Education plays a central role in this intergenerational income persistence. Because education-based inequalities grew in recent decades, many scholars predicted that intergenerational income persistence would increase. However, previous research suggests that it remained stable across recent cohorts. We address this p…
Income Stratification among Occupational Classes in the United States
Stratification and inequality are among the most central concepts in sociology, and although related, they are fundamentally distinct: inequality refers to the extent to which resources are distributed unevenly across individuals or between population subgroups, whereas stratification refers to the extent to which population subgroups occupy distinct hierarchical layers within an overall resource distribution. Despite the centrality of stratifica…
Between State and Family: Discussion on the Segregation and Integration of the Daily Living Space within Shanghai Historic Lane Neighborhood
Based on the phenomenon of social segregation that commonly appears in contemporary cities, the article points out the peculiar problem of adjacent segregation that currently occurs in the historic lane neighborhood of Shanghai. By discussing the dialectical relation between adjacent segregation and mixed habitation, it indicates physical proximity does not necessarily result in social mix. After that, by taking the lane neighborhood in Hongkou c…
Hierarchical Item Response Models for Analyzing Public Opinion
Opinion surveys often employ multiple items to measure the respondent’s underlying value, belief, or attitude. To analyze such types of data, researchers have often followed a two-step approach by first constructing a composite measure and then using it in subsequent analysis. This paper presents a class of hierarchical item response models that help integrate measurement and analysis. In this approach, individual responses to multiple items stem…
A Regression-with-Residuals Method for Estimating Controlled Direct Effects
Political scientists are increasingly interested in causal mediation, and to this end, recent studies focus on estimating a quantity called the controlled direct effect (CDE). The CDE measures the strength of the causal relationship between a treatment and outcome when a mediator is fixed at a given value. To estimate the CDE, Joffe and Greene (2009) and Vansteelandt (2009) developed the method of sequential g-estimation, which was introduced to …
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Presence of Self-Selection: A Propensity Score Perspective
An essential feature common to all empirical social research is variability across units of analysis. Individuals differ not only in background characteristics but also in how they respond to a particular treatment, intervention, or stimulation. Moreover, individuals may self-select into treatment on the basis of anticipated treatment effects. To study heterogeneous treatment effects in the presence of self-selection, Heckman and Vytlacil develop…
Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the "Meritocratic Power" of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility
Intergenerational mobility is higher among college graduates than among people with lower levels of education. In light of this finding, researchers have characterized a college degree as a great equalizer leveling the playing field, and proposed that expanding higher education would promote mobility. This line of reasoning rests on the implicit assumption that the relatively high mobility observed among college graduates reflects a causal effect…
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