Qin Gao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Qin Gao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Qin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gao |
| SIGNATURE | GAO Q |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9370-6595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 266 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Poverty in Urban China 2012–2020: Applying an Income-Asset Joint Framework
Despite China’s remarkable poverty reduction, policy debates and empirical research have focused largely on rural areas, leaving urban poverty comparatively understudied. Using five waves of the China Family Panel Studies (2012–2020), this study applies an income-asset joint poverty framework to examine trends, correlates, and public subsidy coverage across protected poverty (income poor only), vulnerable poverty (asset poor only), and twice pove…
Opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in public health: A systematic review on technological efficacy, ethical dilemmas, and governance pathways
Introduction: Artificial intelligence (AI) holds profound potential to reshape public health through enhanced disease prediction, diagnosis, and health management. However, this technological advancement is accompanied by significant ethical, social, and governance challenges. This systematic review aims to comprehensively examine the opportunities and challenges of AI in public health, focusing on its applications, associated dilemmas, and gover…
Always on, undermining at home? Spillover and crossover effects of workplace telepressure after hours on family undermining and spouse’s well-being
How does the job interview medium affect fairness perceptions and interview ratings? The mediating role of perceptions of social presence
The use of video-conference interviews (VIs) has increased substantially, especially with advances in technology and the emergence of COVID-19. Although prior research has suggested that VIs are associated with a lower perception of fairness by applicants and less favorable ratings by interviewers in contrast to face-to-face (FTF) interviews, the reasons for these differences remain inadequately understood. We postulate that applicants’ and inter…
Neighborhood Environment, Cultural Orientation, and Parenting: Understanding the Intergenerational Conflict in Asian Immigrant Families
State Power Under Pressure: Governance, Legitimacy, and Civic Response during the Covid-19 Pandemic in China
What does it take for a state to remain legitimate during a crisis, not only in containing the crisis, but in sustaining trust, moral authority, and narrative coherence? China’s response to COVID-1
Intergenerational Continuity of Child Maltreatment in East Asian American Families: Roles of Parents' Beliefs in Physical Punishment and Social Support
This study used data from a sample of East Asian American families ( N = 604) to examine the intergenerational continuity of child maltreatment and the roles of parents' beliefs in physical punishment and perceived social support. After controlling for parent, child and household characteristics, parents' experience of childhood physical abuse was associated with elevated risk of all three types of maltreatment towards their own children (psychol…
Effects of secondary task eccentricity and visual salience on attention allocation in multitasking across screens
Pay it back or pay it forward? How emotions and regulatory focus shape employees’ repaying behaviors after receiving help
Effectiveness of cooperative and competitive gamification in mobile fitness applications among occasional exercisers
Physical activity (PA) is critical to health, but PA level declines dramatically in young adulthood. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of different social gamification designs (i.e. cooperation and competition) in mobile fitness applications among occasional exercisers among young adults. A mobile fitness application featuring competitive, cooperative, or individualistic gamification was designed and their effectiveness in promoting PA…
Innovative technology-enhanced social work service during Covid-19: How ‘Garden on the Balcony’ promoted resilience, community bonds and a green lifestyle
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has motivated social workers to reckon with and transform traditions in service delivery. The development, application, and evaluation of technology-enhanced practices have become more vital than ever. Garden on the Balcony (GOB) was an innovative internet-based social work service designed to respond rapidly to the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing. This paper introduces the underlying perspectives and design of GOB and …
The influence of paternal and maternal parenting styles on adolescents’ regulatory focus: A longitudinal study
Does Welfare Participation Affect Adolescent Educational Aspiration? Evidence from Panel Data in China
Youth participation in governance in China: The roles of perceived responsibility and political efficacy
Youth participation in governance goes beyond the scope of positive youth development and involves young people engaging in real‐world social governance. Drawing on a culturally sensitive review of policies related to youth participation, this study investigated the effect of subjective factors (i.e., perceived responsibility and political efficacy) on young adults' participation in governance in China. A subset of young adult ( N = 2396) was ext…
Disability and social policy: Global evidence and perspectives
Income and Health in Predicting Older Adults' Social Capabilities in China: The Mediating Role of Social Engagement
Who Are Identified as Poor in Rural China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategy? Applying the Multidimensional Capability Approach
Disparities in child cognitive skills by parental education in China: The roles of socio-demographics and parenting
Parenting stress and risks of child maltreatment among Asian immigrant parents: Does social support moderate the effects
Welfare Participation Reduced Severe Child Multidimensional Poverty in Rural China: Better Targeting Can Lead to Greater Poverty Reduction
How effective are social safety net programs in reducing poverty risks? A comparative study of Taiwan and Southeast China
Using the harmonized Panel Study on Family Dynamics 2006, 2011, and 2013/14 data, this is the first study to examine poverty patterns and investigate the role of social safety nets in alleviating poverty over time in East Asia through a comparative lens, focusing on Taiwan and southeast (SE) China. We compared the extent to which public transfers alleviate poverty utilizing multilevel regression models. Our findings indicate that, firstly, the ex…
Poverty alleviation in Asia: Future directions in measurement, monitoring, and impact evaluation
This essay introduces a special issue focusing on poverty alleviation in Asia. We argue that expanding the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and using a variety of methodologies to study poverty issues can help inform more effective, sustainable policy solutions in Asia and globally. Drawing on a set of new empirical studies across various Asian countries and regions, we suggest several concrete directions in monitoring poverty trends …
Catastrophic health expenditure and health-related quality of life among older adults in China
Older adults have more health-care needs and higher financial burdens but fewer income resources compared to other age groups in China. Meanwhile, substantial inequalities exist between rural and urban older adults in terms of welfare benefits level, access to health care, quality of care and financial resources to pay for health-care services. Using 2011–2013 panel data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study and a difference-in-…
Association between the maternal protein nutrition status during pregnancy and the risk of preterm birth
We aimed to assess protein nutrition status during pregnancy by maternal plasma total protein (MTP) levels in urban pregnant women and to explore the association between the trimester-specific MTP levels and risk of preterm birth (PTB). A prospective design was conducted in 3,382 mother-newborn pairs with the second-trimester maternal MTP information and in 3,478 mother-newborn pairs with the third-trimester MTP information. Multiple Cox proporti…
Association of vitamin D supplementation with respiratory tract infection in infants
Vitamin D deficiency has been reported to be associated with respiratory tract infection (RTI). However, evidence regarding the effects of vitamin D supplementation on susceptibility of infants to RTI is limited. In this prospective birth cohort study, we examined whether vitamin D supplementation reduced RTI risk in 2,244 infants completing the follow-up from birth to 6 months of age. The outcome endpoint was the first episode of paediatrician-d…
The Chinese Welfare State in Transition: 1988-2007
Is China a welfare state? If so, how big is it and what does it look like? Further, how does the Chinese welfare state affect income inequality? Is it progressive or regressive? Using the China Household Income Project 1988-2007 data, this article provides updated empirical evidence on the size, structure and redistributive effect of the Chinese welfare state. We find that the Chinese welfare state is highly divided along urban-rural lines: the u…
Community-based welfare targeting and political elite capture: Evidence from rural China
Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How Are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime
This work studies the association between welfare reform, broadly defined to include an array of social policy changes affecting low‐income families in the 1990s, and expenditure patterns of poor single‐mother families. The findings suggest that welfare reform is not associated with any statistically significant change in total expenditures in families headed by low‐educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure changed. The reform pol…
Does Welfare Enable Family Expenditures on Human Capital? Evidence from China
Welfare residualism: A comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea
Gao Q, Yoo J, Yang S-M, Zhai F. Welfare residualism: a comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 113–124 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. In this article, the Basic Livelihood Security (BLS) systems of China and South Korea are compared. The purpose of BLS is to provide a s…
Child support enforcement policy and unmarried fathers' employment in the underground and regular economies
Some scholars have suggested that a negative consequence of strengthening child support enforcement is to encourage fathers to shift from regular sector to underground employment. We employ data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to investigate the relationship between the strength of child support enforcement (CSE) and levels of underground and regular sector employment among unmarried fathers. We find that, in general, living i…
Stand against anti-Asian racial discrimination during Covid-19: A call for action
Racial discrimination against people of Chinese and other Asian ethnicities has risen sharply in number and severity globally amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This rise has been especially rapid and severe in the United States, fueled by xenophobic political rhetoric and racist language on social media. It has endangered the lives of many Asian Americans and is likely to have long-term negative impacts on the economic, social, physical, and psychologi…
Faith and Happiness in China: Roles of Religious Identity, Beliefs, and Practice
How Does Public Assistance Affect Family Expenditures? The Case of Urban China
Dosage Effects on School Readiness: Evidence from a Randomized Classroom-Based Intervention
Variations in the dosage of social interventions and the effects of dosage on program outcomes remain understudied. This study examines the dosage effects of the Chicago School Readiness Project, a randomized, multifaceted classroom-based intervention conducted in Head Start settings. Using a principal score matching method to address the issue of selection bias, the study finds that high-dosage levels of teacher training and mental health consul…
Effects of welfare entry and exit on adolescent mental health: Evidence from panel data in China
Public Assistance, Economic Prospect, and Happiness in Urban China
Impacts of poverty stigma on negative affect among welfare recipients: Path analysis on Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR
Using two random sampling surveys from Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR, this study aims to compare the poverty stigma, perceived living standards and subjective well-being of welfare and non-welfare recipients in the two regions. The results show that means-tested welfare recipients generally experience high levels of stigma and negative affect. Path analysis models reveal that the direct impact of such stigma on negative affect is significant i…
Welfare Participation and Time Use in China
The Social Benefit System in Urban China: Reforms and Trends from 1988 to 2002
This article systematically reviews the macrolevel social policy changes in urban China during recent years. It also provides empirical evidence on how such policy changes reflect on microlevel family benefit levels from 1988 to 2002 using the national China Household Income Project data. The social policy reform process gradually shifted away from welfare provision through work units to greater emphasis on individual taxes and contributions. The…
Creating solace and hope during Covid-19: An innovative Internet-based social work intervention
During megacity lockdown, a team of social work practitioners and researchers in Beijing developed a rapid, innovative, Internet-based intervention that provided social-emotional support for participating families through indoor micro-gardening. As COVID-19 continues to restrict in-person interactions and traditional social activities, this type of online social-emotional support and community building should become a major social work method for…
Public assistance and poverty reduction: The case of Shanghai
Using household survey data collected during November 2009 to January 2010 among 500 low-income families in Shanghai, this article provides updated evidence on the poverty reduction effects of the Minimum Living Standard Assurance (MLSA, or Dibao), urban China’s primary public assistance program. The article finds that, even though Shanghai’s MLSA line has been constantly raised, it has trailed behind the average living standard in Shanghai as me…
Parental stress and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
As the population of Chinese immigrants has been growing rapidly in the United States, it has been understudied on the parenting behaviours as well as the roles parental stress and social support playing in parenting in this group. This study investigated whether parental stress was associated with parenting and whether this relationship was mediated by social support in a sample of 255 Chinese immigrant parents from the Survey of Asian American …
Covid-19 as a Capability Crisis: Using the Capability Framework to Understand Policy Challenges
This paper shows how the policy challenges arising from COVID-19 can be understood by drawing on core concepts from the capability approach developed by Sen and others
Firm Ownership and Social Insurance Inequality in Transitional China: Evidence from a Large Panel of Firm-Level Data
In dramatic reforms during the past 15 years, China has aimed to create a unified social insurance system across state, collective, and private ownership sectors in urban areas. Despite this nominal equality, a large panel of firm-level data from 2004 to 2007 provides empirical evidence of large disparities between firm ownership sectors in social insurance participation and generosity. We examine three types of social insurance programme: pensio…
Does social insurance enrollment improve citizen assessment of local government performance? Evidence from China
Exploring the relationship between welfare participation in childhood and depression in adulthood in the United States
Incarceration and Unwed Fathers in Fragile Families
Criminal justice policies have resulted in millions of Americans being incarcerated over the past three decades in systems that provide little or no rehabilitation. This study uses a new dataset-The Fragile Families Study-to document poor labor market outcomes that are associated with incarceration. We find that fathers who had been incarcerated earned 28 percent less annually thanfathers who were never incarceratedT hese previously incarceratedf…
How effective are social safety net programs in reducing poverty risks? A comparative study of Taiwan and Southeast China
Using the harmonized Panel Study on Family Dynamics 2006, 2011, and 2013/14 data, this is the first study to examine poverty patterns and investigate the role of social safety nets in alleviating poverty over time in East Asia through a comparative lens, focusing on Taiwan and southeast (SE) China. We compared the extent to which public transfers alleviate poverty utilizing multilevel regression models. Our findings indicate that, firstly, the ex…
Social insurance for migrant workers in China: Impact of the 2008 Labour Contract Law
Using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) 2007, 2008, and 2009 longitudinal migrant survey data, this article provides new evidence on the effects of China’s 2008 Labour Contract Law (LCL) on migrant workers’ social insurance participation, including in pensions, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, and the housing provident fund. We find consistently strong evidence that migrant workers’ labour contract status …
The Social Benefit System in Urban China: Reforms and Trends from 1988 to 2002
This article systematically reviews the macrolevel social policy changes in urban China during recent years. It also provides empirical evidence on how such policy changes reflect on microlevel family benefit levels from 1988 to 2002 using the national China Household Income Project data. The social policy reform process gradually shifted away from welfare provision through work units to greater emphasis on individual taxes and contributions. The…
Child support enforcement policy and unmarried fathers' employment in the underground and regular economies
Some scholars have suggested that a negative consequence of strengthening child support enforcement is to encourage fathers to shift from regular sector to underground employment. We employ data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to investigate the relationship between the strength of child support enforcement (CSE) and levels of underground and regular sector employment among unmarried fathers. We find that, in general, living i…
Incarceration and Unwed Fathers in Fragile Families
Criminal justice policies have resulted in millions of Americans being incarcerated over the past three decades in systems that provide little or no rehabilitation. This study uses a new dataset-The Fragile Families Study-to document poor labor market outcomes that are associated with incarceration. We find that fathers who had been incarcerated earned 28 percent less annually thanfathers who were never incarceratedT hese previously incarceratedf…
Welfare Reform and Family Expenditures: How Are Single Mothers Adapting to the New Welfare and Work Regime
This work studies the association between welfare reform, broadly defined to include an array of social policy changes affecting low‐income families in the 1990s, and expenditure patterns of poor single‐mother families. The findings suggest that welfare reform is not associated with any statistically significant change in total expenditures in families headed by low‐educated single mothers. However, patterns of expenditure changed. The reform pol…
Endothelium-independent relaxation and contraction of rat aorta induced by ethyl acetate extract from leaves of Morus alba (L.)
Therapeutic effects of daphnetin on adjuvant-induced arthritic rats
Center‐Based Early Childhood Education and Care in China: Policies, Trends, and Implications
The development of early childhood education and care (ECEC) policies and programs in China has been closely intertwined with social, economic, and demographic changes. This article systematically reviews center‐based ECEC policies and programs in China and presents the major trends and implications for future research and policy. The focus of China’s ECEC policy has shifted from health and custodial care to nurturing and child‐centered education…
Demographic changes and household income in urban China: 1988–2002
This article documents the major demographic changes during recent years in urban China using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) 1988, 1995 and 2002 data. It also presents the changing levels and compositions of household income in urban China, and examines the impact of the changing demographics on household income. Findings indicate that urban residents have become older and more educated. Individuals are more likely to be employed in th…
Welfare residualism: A comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea
Gao Q, Yoo J, Yang S-M, Zhai F. Welfare residualism: a comparative study of the Basic Livelihood Security systems in China and South Korea Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 113–124 © 2010 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. In this article, the Basic Livelihood Security (BLS) systems of China and South Korea are compared. The purpose of BLS is to provide a s…
How Does Public Assistance Affect Family Expenditures? The Case of Urban China
Center-Based Care in the Context of One-Child Policy in China: Do Child Gender and Siblings Matter
Dosage Effects on School Readiness: Evidence from a Randomized Classroom-Based Intervention
Variations in the dosage of social interventions and the effects of dosage on program outcomes remain understudied. This study examines the dosage effects of the Chicago School Readiness Project, a randomized, multifaceted classroom-based intervention conducted in Head Start settings. Using a principal score matching method to address the issue of selection bias, the study finds that high-dosage levels of teacher training and mental health consul…
Labor contracts and social insurance participation among migrant workers in China
Anti‐Poverty Family Policies in C hina: A Critical Evaluation
Despite its rapid economic growth, C hina remains a developing country facing serious challenges of poverty and inequality. This article examines the development and effectiveness of C hina's primary anti‐poverty family policy, the M inimum L iving S tandard A ssurance ( MLSA , or D ibao ). Using rich administrative data and building on the existing literature, this article provides a critical evaluation of MLSA 's benefit generosity, coverage, t…
Public assistance and poverty reduction: The case of Shanghai
Using household survey data collected during November 2009 to January 2010 among 500 low-income families in Shanghai, this article provides updated evidence on the poverty reduction effects of the Minimum Living Standard Assurance (MLSA, or Dibao), urban China’s primary public assistance program. The article finds that, even though Shanghai’s MLSA line has been constantly raised, it has trailed behind the average living standard in Shanghai as me…
The Chinese Welfare State in Transition: 1988-2007
Is China a welfare state? If so, how big is it and what does it look like? Further, how does the Chinese welfare state affect income inequality? Is it progressive or regressive? Using the China Household Income Project 1988-2007 data, this article provides updated empirical evidence on the size, structure and redistributive effect of the Chinese welfare state. We find that the Chinese welfare state is highly divided along urban-rural lines: the u…
Firm Ownership and Social Insurance Inequality in Transitional China: Evidence from a Large Panel of Firm-Level Data
In dramatic reforms during the past 15 years, China has aimed to create a unified social insurance system across state, collective, and private ownership sectors in urban areas. Despite this nominal equality, a large panel of firm-level data from 2004 to 2007 provides empirical evidence of large disparities between firm ownership sectors in social insurance participation and generosity. We examine three types of social insurance programme: pensio…
Hidden Income and Occupational Background: Evidence from Guangzhou
Using a unique dataset based on a survey conducted by the Guangzhou Land Resources and Housing Administrative Bureau from November 2009 to January 2010, this article examines the sources and distribution of the hidden income of residents from different occupational backgrounds, taking into consideration their explicit income and other socio-economic characteristics. The results show that government officials not only had the highest but also the …
Does Welfare Enable Family Expenditures on Human Capital? Evidence from China
Welfare Participation and Time Use in China
Mainland Chinese Implicit Theory of Wisdom: Generational and Cultural Differences
This is the first study on the Mainland Chinese implicit theory of wisdom. To understand the role of culture and social changes in the implicit theory of wisdom, cultural and generational differences were explored. Two generations of Mainland Chinese, 50 older adults (age 60–80 years) and 50 younger adults (age 20–30 years), were interviewed individually. Participants first nominated personal acquaintances and historical figures as wisdom exempla…
Social insurance for migrant workers in China: Impact of the 2008 Labour Contract Law
Using the China Household Income Project (CHIP) 2007, 2008, and 2009 longitudinal migrant survey data, this article provides new evidence on the effects of China’s 2008 Labour Contract Law (LCL) on migrant workers’ social insurance participation, including in pensions, work injury insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, and the housing provident fund. We find consistently strong evidence that migrant workers’ labour contract status …
Parental acculturation and parenting in Chinese immigrant families: The mediating role of social support
This study provided updated evidence on how parental acculturation and social support were associated with parenting in a sample of Chinese immigrant families (n = 255). The results from multivariate regressions with a rich array of control variables showed that parents’ cultural preferences for friends, food and TV programmes of other cultures were significantly associated with more parental nurturance and less intergenerational conflict, but ha…
The Divided Chinese Welfare System: Do Health and Education Change the Picture
Using the China Household Income Project 2007 data and imputing health and education benefits through microsimulation, this article provides evidence on how the inclusion of health and education benefits might change the estimated size, structure and redistributive effects of the Chinese social welfare system. We find that the inequalities in social welfare systems across the urban–rural–migrant populations persisted, reinforcing the multidimensi…
Inequality in Social Insurance Participation and Generosity: Do Firm Characteristics Matter
Income inequality in China has been much documented and debated. However, one important aspect of income inequality – social insurance inequality – has been largely understudied. We use a large national panel of firm data to examine the possible influence of various firm characteristics on the inequalities in social insurance participation and generosity in the period 2004–07. Our findings reveal substantial ownership sector and regional gaps in …
Political science (44 works) · Economics (41 works) · China (38 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Economic growth (30 works) · Demographic economics (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Geography (19 works) · Business (17 works)