Yue Qian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yue Qian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yue |
| FAMILY NAME | Qian |
| SIGNATURE | QIAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5003-2885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 284 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Gender dynamics within and beyond families in China: Marriage, parenthood and economic affairs
Empowerment and individualization: Online banking and household financial organization
Bringing economic and family sociology into the digital era, this study examines and highlights the transformative potential of online banking in reconfiguring household financial organization. Using an instrumental-variable approach to analyzing data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (2019–2023), we examine the impact of partners’ online banking use on who manages the couple’s money and controls major financial decisions. We reveal an ‘em…
How have Asians experienced discrimination differently during Covid-19? The role of nativity
In this article, we consider differences in how native-born Asians and foreign-born Asians may have experienced rising anti-Asian attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze Canadian data from a national survey (two waves conducted in April and December 2020) that includes a subsample of 464 Asians (native-born=178; foreign-born=286). Results from negative binomial regressions suggest that perception of anti-Asian racism is highly conditione…
Multifaceted impacts of double-aging neighborhood’s built environments on Saip: A deep dive into Chinese rapidly aging urban society
Introduction: The healthy aging of older adults in dual-older adult communities is influenced by multiple factors, and understanding its underlying mechanisms can promote healthy aging among the older adults in a wide range of developing countries. This comprehensive study delves into the intricate interplay between multifaceted built environmental factors, and their direct and indirect effects on the successful AIP residing in double-aging neigh…
Straight Jacket: The Implications of Multidimensional Sexuality for Relationship Quality and Stability
The quality and stability of couple relationships have far-reaching consequences for the well-being of individual partners and patterns of family change. Although much research has compared the quality and stability of same-sex and different-sex relationships, the multidimensional nature of sexuality has received insufficient attention in this scholarship. Individuals in same-sex (different-sex) partnerships do not necessarily identify as gay/les…
Development and validation of a measure of the entrepreneurial well-being of Chinese entrepreneurs
Although entrepreneurial well-being is a crucial determinant of the sustainability of entrepreneurial activities, the absence of standardized measurement tools has resulted in inconsistent and even contradictory research findings. Thus, in this study we explored the connotation and structure of entrepreneurial well-being using the grounded theory research method. In addition, we conducted a factor analysis to establish an appropriate measurement …
"Comfortably "Western: How Chinese International Students Imagine Canada
How do students from Mainland China select Canada for their education? Beyond the customary push-and-pull explanations, we introduce a framework of comparative imaginaries that describes how students' rational strategies are imbued with the imaginaries of their host societies and migration aspirations. Based on longitudinal interviews with 36 Chinese postsecondary students in Vancouver, we find that these students imagine Canada as a safe alterna…
Gendering digital labor: Work and Family Digital Communication Across 29 Countries
With rapid digitalization, people increasingly use information and communication technologies (ICTs). Analyzing European Social Survey data across 29 countries, we address an under-researched question: how is the labor of using ICTs for digital communication gendered across the domains of work and family? Using latent profile analysis, we identify five profiles of work-family digital communication – dual-medium (most prevalent), dual-low, high wo…
State Contexts, Job Insecurity, and Subjective Well-being in the Time of Covid-19
Separate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite
In recent decades, the financial elite have seen their economic resources grow significantly, while the income and wealth of other households have stagnated. The financial elite includes couples who are super-rich (top one percent), rich (the 90th–99th percentile), and upper-middle class (the 80th–89th percentile). Gendered work–family arrangements in top economic groups may contribute to inequality—particularly to wealth accumulation among the e…
Differences in occupational homogamy by race, ethnicity, and national origin: A social mobility strategy for Asian Americans
Rising median age at marriage and increasing lifestyle differentials across occupations suggest that occupations increasingly offer important signals of the economic and cultural resources of potential spouses. Scant attention has been paid to occupational
The gender peak effect: Women are most vulnerable to infections during Covid-19 peaks
In this article, we describe a gender peak effect that women's relative share in COVID-19 infections increases when there is a sharp increase in cases, and it reaches the highest level during peak times in each wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. We demonstrate this gender peak effect by analyzing detailed, sex-disaggregated Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) data. The data include 1,045,998 men and women who were confirmed cases of COVID-19 from M…
Pregnant under quarantine: Women's agency and access to medical care under Wuhan's Covid-19 lockdown
Gender, Parenthood, and Employment During Covid-19: An Immigrant-Native Born Comparison in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended how we live and work. In Canada, the gender gap in employment among parents with young children widened substantially during the pandemic. Previous studies, however, examine parents in Canada without distinguishing them by immigrant status, although immigrant versus Canadian-born parents may have distinct work-family experiences. In this study, we investigate how the intersection of parental and immigrant statuse…
Parenthood, Gender, and the Risks and Consequences of Job Loss
Job loss can be difficult to navigate for individuals and their families. However, we know very little about the relationship between parental status and job loss. Drawing on rich data from Statistics Canada’s Workplace and Employee Survey, we analyse differences across gender and parental status groups in both risks of job loss and its consequences: re-employment, unemployment, and quality of new jobs relative to those that were lost. We find th…
Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Employment Among Parents of Young Children in Canada
Economic and social disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic have important implications for gender and class inequality. Drawing on Statistics Canada's monthly Labour Force Survey, we document trends in gender gaps in employment and work hours over the pandemic (February-October 2020). Our findings highlight the importance of care provisions for gender equity, with gaps larger among parents than people without children, and most pronounced when care…
Gender in the One Percent
Those in the top 1% of the U.S. income distribution control the majority of financial resources and political power. This means that a small group of homogenous men likely exercise the majority of corporate and political power associated with economic elites
The Under-Utilization of Women’s Talent: Academic Achievement and Future Leadership Positions
Despite high labor force participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership at every level. In this study, we examine whether women and men who show early academic achievement during their adolescence—and arguably signs of future leadership potential—have similar or different pathways to later leadership positions in the workplace. We also examine how leadership patterns by gender and early academic achievement differ according to parenth…
Generation, education, and intermarriage of Asian Americans
The influx of immigrants from Asia to the United States (U.S.) has expanded the pool of coethnic marriageable partners, strengthened racial identity, and contributed to the decline in interracial marriage with whites among Asian Americans. Yet, retreat from interracial marriage with whites may well vary by immigrant generation, an important factor in marital assimilation. Using data from the March Current Population Survey (1994 to 2015), we exam…
Hukou, marriage, and access to wealth in Shanghai
About two-fifths of the population in Shanghai, the largest city in China, are migrants. In order to live in Shanghai permanently, many migrants strive to gain Shanghai hukou because of its close connection to easier access to jobs, schools, social welfare, and other opportunities in Shanghai. In this paper, we use newly available data from the 2013 Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey. This survey sampled Shanghai residents bor…
Women in the One Percent: Gender Dynamics in Top Income Positions
A growing body of research documents the importance of studying households in the top one percent of U.S. income distribution because they control enormous resources. However, little is known about whose income-men's or women's-is primarily responsible for pushing households into the one percent and whether women have individual pathways to earning one percent status based on their income. Using the 1995 to 2016 Surveys of Consumer Finances, we a…
Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order
Family change in China is characterized by increasing divorce rates and a growing number of remarriages, like in many Western countries. Assortative mating is a crucial part of the institution of (re)marriage and plays a key role in the (re)production of s
Gender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United States
Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female-favorable gender gap in educational performance, quantitative research on immigrant educat
Women's Fertility Autonomy in Urban China: The Role of Couple Dynamics Under the Universal Two-Child Policy
Under China’s universal two-child policy, decisions about whether to have a second birth become more dynamic, flexible, and subject to negotiation between the spouses; moreover, how women can maintain their fertility autonomy has far-reaching implications for gender equality. Using valuable, new data from the 2016 Survey of the Fertility Decision-Making Processes in Chinese Families, we examine the relationship between couple dynamics and women’s…
Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai
Previous research on Hukou-based stratification mostly focuses on Hukou-derived labor market outcomes, with growing attention paid to the role of Hukou locality (local vs. nonlocal) as an increasingly important agent of social stratification in urban China. Few studies have, however, examined how Hukou shapes the patterns of who marries whom in geographically-defined marriage markets, despite the far-reaching implications of assortative mating fo…
Division of Labor, Gender Ideology, and Marital Satisfaction in East Asia
Using data from the 2006 Family Module of the East Asian Social Survey (N = 3,096), this article examines associations of marital satisfaction with divisions of housework and gender ideology in four East Asian societies: urban China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Compared with Japanese and Korean married women and men, Chinese and Taiwanese spouses were more satisfied with their marriage and had more egalitarian divisions of housework, but simu…
Women in the One Percent: Gender Dynamics in Top Income Positions
A growing body of research documents the importance of studying households in the top one percent of U.S. income distribution because they control enormous resources. However, little is known about whose income-men's or women's-is primarily responsible for pushing households into the one percent and whether women have individual pathways to earning one percent status based on their income. Using the 1995 to 2016 Surveys of Consumer Finances, we a…
Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai
Previous research on Hukou-based stratification mostly focuses on Hukou-derived labor market outcomes, with growing attention paid to the role of Hukou locality (local vs. nonlocal) as an increasingly important agent of social stratification in urban China. Few studies have, however, examined how Hukou shapes the patterns of who marries whom in geographically-defined marriage markets, despite the far-reaching implications of assortative mating fo…
The gender divide in urban China: Singlehood and assortative mating by age and education
Chinese media labels highly educated, urban women who are still single in their late 20s as "leftover ladies". We investigate whether indeed highly educated women are less likely to marry than their less-educated counterparts, and how assortative mating pa
Work, Family, and Gendered Happiness Among Married People in Urban China
Generation, education, and intermarriage of Asian Americans
The influx of immigrants from Asia to the United States (U.S.) has expanded the pool of coethnic marriageable partners, strengthened racial identity, and contributed to the decline in interracial marriage with whites among Asian Americans. Yet, retreat from interracial marriage with whites may well vary by immigrant generation, an important factor in marital assimilation. Using data from the March Current Population Survey (1994 to 2015), we exam…
Women's Fertility Autonomy in Urban China: The Role of Couple Dynamics Under the Universal Two-Child Policy
Under China’s universal two-child policy, decisions about whether to have a second birth become more dynamic, flexible, and subject to negotiation between the spouses; moreover, how women can maintain their fertility autonomy has far-reaching implications for gender equality. Using valuable, new data from the 2016 Survey of the Fertility Decision-Making Processes in Chinese Families, we examine the relationship between couple dynamics and women’s…
Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Employment Among Parents of Young Children in Canada
Economic and social disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic have important implications for gender and class inequality. Drawing on Statistics Canada's monthly Labour Force Survey, we document trends in gender gaps in employment and work hours over the pandemic (February-October 2020). Our findings highlight the importance of care provisions for gender equity, with gaps larger among parents than people without children, and most pronounced when care…
Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order
Family change in China is characterized by increasing divorce rates and a growing number of remarriages, like in many Western countries. Assortative mating is a crucial part of the institution of (re)marriage and plays a key role in the (re)production of s
Long-term health and socioeconomic consequences of early-life exposure to the 1959-1961 Chinese Famine
Hukou, marriage, and access to wealth in Shanghai
About two-fifths of the population in Shanghai, the largest city in China, are migrants. In order to live in Shanghai permanently, many migrants strive to gain Shanghai hukou because of its close connection to easier access to jobs, schools, social welfare, and other opportunities in Shanghai. In this paper, we use newly available data from the 2013 Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey. This survey sampled Shanghai residents bor…
Parental Status and Subjective Well-Being Among Currently Married Individuals in China
Using data from the 2006 Chinese General Social Survey ( N = 2,515), we examine the relationship between parental status and subjective well-being among Chinese adults who are in their first marriages. After accounting for background characteristics, parents and childless individuals do not report significantly different feelings of well-being. When parental status is disaggregated according to family structure, parents of adult children only rep…
Gender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United States
Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female-favorable gender gap in educational performance, quantitative research on immigrant educat
Gendering digital labor: Work and Family Digital Communication Across 29 Countries
With rapid digitalization, people increasingly use information and communication technologies (ICTs). Analyzing European Social Survey data across 29 countries, we address an under-researched question: how is the labor of using ICTs for digital communication gendered across the domains of work and family? Using latent profile analysis, we identify five profiles of work-family digital communication – dual-medium (most prevalent), dual-low, high wo…
"Comfortably "Western: How Chinese International Students Imagine Canada
How do students from Mainland China select Canada for their education? Beyond the customary push-and-pull explanations, we introduce a framework of comparative imaginaries that describes how students' rational strategies are imbued with the imaginaries of their host societies and migration aspirations. Based on longitudinal interviews with 36 Chinese postsecondary students in Vancouver, we find that these students imagine Canada as a safe alterna…
The gender divide in urban China: Singlehood and assortative mating by age and education
Chinese media labels highly educated, urban women who are still single in their late 20s as "leftover ladies". We investigate whether indeed highly educated women are less likely to marry than their less-educated counterparts, and how assortative mating pa
Parental Status and Subjective Well-Being Among Currently Married Individuals in China
Using data from the 2006 Chinese General Social Survey ( N = 2,515), we examine the relationship between parental status and subjective well-being among Chinese adults who are in their first marriages. After accounting for background characteristics, parents and childless individuals do not report significantly different feelings of well-being. When parental status is disaggregated according to family structure, parents of adult children only rep…
Long-term health and socioeconomic consequences of early-life exposure to the 1959-1961 Chinese Famine
Work, Family, and Gendered Happiness Among Married People in Urban China
Division of Labor, Gender Ideology, and Marital Satisfaction in East Asia
Using data from the 2006 Family Module of the East Asian Social Survey (N = 3,096), this article examines associations of marital satisfaction with divisions of housework and gender ideology in four East Asian societies: urban China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Compared with Japanese and Korean married women and men, Chinese and Taiwanese spouses were more satisfied with their marriage and had more egalitarian divisions of housework, but simu…
Assortative Mating by Education andHukouin Shanghai
Previous research on Hukou-based stratification mostly focuses on Hukou-derived labor market outcomes, with growing attention paid to the role of Hukou locality (local vs. nonlocal) as an increasingly important agent of social stratification in urban China. Few studies have, however, examined how Hukou shapes the patterns of who marries whom in geographically-defined marriage markets, despite the far-reaching implications of assortative mating fo…
Gender differences in educational adaptation of immigrant-origin youth in the United States
Immigrant-origin students (i.e., first- and second-generation immigrants) comprise roughly 20% of the US school-age population. Despite growing awareness of a female-favorable gender gap in educational performance, quantitative research on immigrant educat
Women's Fertility Autonomy in Urban China: The Role of Couple Dynamics Under the Universal Two-Child Policy
Under China’s universal two-child policy, decisions about whether to have a second birth become more dynamic, flexible, and subject to negotiation between the spouses; moreover, how women can maintain their fertility autonomy has far-reaching implications for gender equality. Using valuable, new data from the 2016 Survey of the Fertility Decision-Making Processes in Chinese Families, we examine the relationship between couple dynamics and women’s…
Women in the One Percent: Gender Dynamics in Top Income Positions
A growing body of research documents the importance of studying households in the top one percent of U.S. income distribution because they control enormous resources. However, little is known about whose income-men's or women's-is primarily responsible for pushing households into the one percent and whether women have individual pathways to earning one percent status based on their income. Using the 1995 to 2016 Surveys of Consumer Finances, we a…
Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order
Family change in China is characterized by increasing divorce rates and a growing number of remarriages, like in many Western countries. Assortative mating is a crucial part of the institution of (re)marriage and plays a key role in the (re)production of s
Gender in the One Percent
Those in the top 1% of the U.S. income distribution control the majority of financial resources and political power. This means that a small group of homogenous men likely exercise the majority of corporate and political power associated with economic elites
The Under-Utilization of Women’s Talent: Academic Achievement and Future Leadership Positions
Despite high labor force participation, women remain underrepresented in leadership at every level. In this study, we examine whether women and men who show early academic achievement during their adolescence—and arguably signs of future leadership potential—have similar or different pathways to later leadership positions in the workplace. We also examine how leadership patterns by gender and early academic achievement differ according to parenth…
Generation, education, and intermarriage of Asian Americans
The influx of immigrants from Asia to the United States (U.S.) has expanded the pool of coethnic marriageable partners, strengthened racial identity, and contributed to the decline in interracial marriage with whites among Asian Americans. Yet, retreat from interracial marriage with whites may well vary by immigrant generation, an important factor in marital assimilation. Using data from the March Current Population Survey (1994 to 2015), we exam…
Hukou, marriage, and access to wealth in Shanghai
About two-fifths of the population in Shanghai, the largest city in China, are migrants. In order to live in Shanghai permanently, many migrants strive to gain Shanghai hukou because of its close connection to easier access to jobs, schools, social welfare, and other opportunities in Shanghai. In this paper, we use newly available data from the 2013 Fudan Yangtze River Delta Social Transformation Survey. This survey sampled Shanghai residents bor…
Parenthood, Gender, and the Risks and Consequences of Job Loss
Job loss can be difficult to navigate for individuals and their families. However, we know very little about the relationship between parental status and job loss. Drawing on rich data from Statistics Canada’s Workplace and Employee Survey, we analyse differences across gender and parental status groups in both risks of job loss and its consequences: re-employment, unemployment, and quality of new jobs relative to those that were lost. We find th…
Covid-19 and The Gender Gap in Employment Among Parents of Young Children in Canada
Economic and social disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic have important implications for gender and class inequality. Drawing on Statistics Canada's monthly Labour Force Survey, we document trends in gender gaps in employment and work hours over the pandemic (February-October 2020). Our findings highlight the importance of care provisions for gender equity, with gaps larger among parents than people without children, and most pronounced when care…
The gender peak effect: Women are most vulnerable to infections during Covid-19 peaks
In this article, we describe a gender peak effect that women's relative share in COVID-19 infections increases when there is a sharp increase in cases, and it reaches the highest level during peak times in each wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. We demonstrate this gender peak effect by analyzing detailed, sex-disaggregated Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) data. The data include 1,045,998 men and women who were confirmed cases of COVID-19 from M…
Pregnant under quarantine: Women's agency and access to medical care under Wuhan's Covid-19 lockdown
Gender, Parenthood, and Employment During Covid-19: An Immigrant-Native Born Comparison in Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended how we live and work. In Canada, the gender gap in employment among parents with young children widened substantially during the pandemic. Previous studies, however, examine parents in Canada without distinguishing them by immigrant status, although immigrant versus Canadian-born parents may have distinct work-family experiences. In this study, we investigate how the intersection of parental and immigrant statuse…
State Contexts, Job Insecurity, and Subjective Well-being in the Time of Covid-19
Separate Spheres: The Gender Division of Labor in the Financial Elite
In recent decades, the financial elite have seen their economic resources grow significantly, while the income and wealth of other households have stagnated. The financial elite includes couples who are super-rich (top one percent), rich (the 90th–99th percentile), and upper-middle class (the 80th–89th percentile). Gendered work–family arrangements in top economic groups may contribute to inequality—particularly to wealth accumulation among the e…
Differences in occupational homogamy by race, ethnicity, and national origin: A social mobility strategy for Asian Americans
Rising median age at marriage and increasing lifestyle differentials across occupations suggest that occupations increasingly offer important signals of the economic and cultural resources of potential spouses. Scant attention has been paid to occupational
Development and validation of a measure of the entrepreneurial well-being of Chinese entrepreneurs
Although entrepreneurial well-being is a crucial determinant of the sustainability of entrepreneurial activities, the absence of standardized measurement tools has resulted in inconsistent and even contradictory research findings. Thus, in this study we explored the connotation and structure of entrepreneurial well-being using the grounded theory research method. In addition, we conducted a factor analysis to establish an appropriate measurement …
"Comfortably "Western: How Chinese International Students Imagine Canada
How do students from Mainland China select Canada for their education? Beyond the customary push-and-pull explanations, we introduce a framework of comparative imaginaries that describes how students' rational strategies are imbued with the imaginaries of their host societies and migration aspirations. Based on longitudinal interviews with 36 Chinese postsecondary students in Vancouver, we find that these students imagine Canada as a safe alterna…
Gendering digital labor: Work and Family Digital Communication Across 29 Countries
With rapid digitalization, people increasingly use information and communication technologies (ICTs). Analyzing European Social Survey data across 29 countries, we address an under-researched question: how is the labor of using ICTs for digital communication gendered across the domains of work and family? Using latent profile analysis, we identify five profiles of work-family digital communication – dual-medium (most prevalent), dual-low, high wo…
Demographic economics (19 works) · Economics (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Demography (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · China (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (8 works)