Chunhui Ren
Biographic Data
| ID | 3816812 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chunhui Ren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chunhui |
| FAMILY NAME | Ren |
| SIGNATURE | REN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delta State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1973-6213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Time‐Invariant Variables' Time‐Varying Effects: Misinterpretations of the Fixed‐Effects Model in Ascriptive Inequality Research
A popular statistical approach, the fixed‐effects regression model is known for its ability to produce unbiased coefficients by adjusting for unobserved time‐invariant individual heterogeneity. This ability is contingent on the assumption that time‐invariant variables must not have time‐varying effects, which, otherwise, would interfere in the process of coefficient estimation. In ascriptive inequality research that focuses on relatively fixed id…
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States
Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States
In the present study, we propose a novel conceptualization of homeownership in the United States as a special commodity, whose consumption involves a two-stage process: homeownership entry wherein the ability to consume is pivotal, and homeownership retention wherein the outcome rests on economic security. Based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we test this conceptualization with consumption ability being proxied by income and econom…
A Dynamic Framework for Earnings Inequality between Black and White Men
The present study conceptualizes earnings inequality between black and white men as a three-stage dynamic process: the pre-market human capital acquisition, the labor-market entry, and the longitudinal career progression. Based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this framework is put to an empirical test that leads to two major conclusions. First, overall patterns of black-white earnings inequality are shaped primarily at labor-market …
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity
In the United States after the Great Recession, despite growing attention to low-income households’ homeownership vulnerability, the existing works tend to take specific angles and produce only piecemeal evidence. By placing liquid assets’ function of mediating financial hardships in the context of homeownership dynamics, I establish a synthesized conceptual framework. Based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), I put this frame…
Cohort, signaling, and early-career dynamics: The hidden significance of class in black-white earnings inequality
A Framework for Explaining Black-White Inequality in Homeownership Sustainability
To explain racially differential housing outcomes, previous studies have tended to concentrate on discriminatory processes within the mortgage market while ignoring homeowning families’ broad socioeconomic challenges. This study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding Black-White inequality in homeownership sustainability, which emphasizes Black homeowners’ socioeconomic challenges that are external to mortgage market evaluations, with …
After poverty reduction: Trajectories of U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped high poverty during the 1990s
Based on the Neighborhood Change Database, this study tracks U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped the high-poverty category during the poverty reduction trend in the 1990s and explores their poverty transition patterns in the subsequent decade. Escaped neighborhoods exhibit a significant propensity to relapse back into high poverty. This study found several neighborhood characteristics to be associated with a neighborhood’s ability to resist pov…
Fluctuating courses and constant challenges: The two trajectories of black-white earnings inequality, 1968-2015
Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Experiment on Material and Health Care Hardship among Low-Income Filers
Material and health care hardship is common among households with low incomes and is associated with a host of adverse outcomes but can be mitigated with having savings. The authors assessed the effects of online tax-time savings interventions informed by behavioral economics on hardship among a sample of low- and moderate-income tax filers (N = 4,738). The authors find that filers who received an intervention had a statistically significant, low…
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America
A Framework for Explaining Black-White Inequality in Homeownership Sustainability
To explain racially differential housing outcomes, previous studies have tended to concentrate on discriminatory processes within the mortgage market while ignoring homeowning families’ broad socioeconomic challenges. This study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding Black-White inequality in homeownership sustainability, which emphasizes Black homeowners’ socioeconomic challenges that are external to mortgage market evaluations, with …
Fluctuating courses and constant challenges: The two trajectories of black-white earnings inequality, 1968-2015
Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Experiment on Material and Health Care Hardship among Low-Income Filers
Material and health care hardship is common among households with low incomes and is associated with a host of adverse outcomes but can be mitigated with having savings. The authors assessed the effects of online tax-time savings interventions informed by behavioral economics on hardship among a sample of low- and moderate-income tax filers (N = 4,738). The authors find that filers who received an intervention had a statistically significant, low…
Time‐Invariant Variables' Time‐Varying Effects: Misinterpretations of the Fixed‐Effects Model in Ascriptive Inequality Research
A popular statistical approach, the fixed‐effects regression model is known for its ability to produce unbiased coefficients by adjusting for unobserved time‐invariant individual heterogeneity. This ability is contingent on the assumption that time‐invariant variables must not have time‐varying effects, which, otherwise, would interfere in the process of coefficient estimation. In ascriptive inequality research that focuses on relatively fixed id…
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity
In the United States after the Great Recession, despite growing attention to low-income households’ homeownership vulnerability, the existing works tend to take specific angles and produce only piecemeal evidence. By placing liquid assets’ function of mediating financial hardships in the context of homeownership dynamics, I establish a synthesized conceptual framework. Based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), I put this frame…
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America
Effects of a Tax-Time Savings Experiment on Material and Health Care Hardship among Low-Income Filers
Material and health care hardship is common among households with low incomes and is associated with a host of adverse outcomes but can be mitigated with having savings. The authors assessed the effects of online tax-time savings interventions informed by behavioral economics on hardship among a sample of low- and moderate-income tax filers (N = 4,738). The authors find that filers who received an intervention had a statistically significant, low…
After poverty reduction: Trajectories of U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped high poverty during the 1990s
Based on the Neighborhood Change Database, this study tracks U.S. urban neighborhoods that escaped the high-poverty category during the poverty reduction trend in the 1990s and explores their poverty transition patterns in the subsequent decade. Escaped neighborhoods exhibit a significant propensity to relapse back into high poverty. This study found several neighborhood characteristics to be associated with a neighborhood’s ability to resist pov…
Fluctuating courses and constant challenges: The two trajectories of black-white earnings inequality, 1968-2015
A Framework for Explaining Black-White Inequality in Homeownership Sustainability
To explain racially differential housing outcomes, previous studies have tended to concentrate on discriminatory processes within the mortgage market while ignoring homeowning families’ broad socioeconomic challenges. This study proposes a conceptual framework for understanding Black-White inequality in homeownership sustainability, which emphasizes Black homeowners’ socioeconomic challenges that are external to mortgage market evaluations, with …
A Dynamic Framework for Earnings Inequality between Black and White Men
The present study conceptualizes earnings inequality between black and white men as a three-stage dynamic process: the pre-market human capital acquisition, the labor-market entry, and the longitudinal career progression. Based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this framework is put to an empirical test that leads to two major conclusions. First, overall patterns of black-white earnings inequality are shaped primarily at labor-market …
Vulnerability of low-income homeownership in the United States: An analysis based on household liquidity
In the United States after the Great Recession, despite growing attention to low-income households’ homeownership vulnerability, the existing works tend to take specific angles and produce only piecemeal evidence. By placing liquid assets’ function of mediating financial hardships in the context of homeownership dynamics, I establish a synthesized conceptual framework. Based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), I put this frame…
Cohort, signaling, and early-career dynamics: The hidden significance of class in black-white earnings inequality
Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States
In the present study, we propose a novel conceptualization of homeownership in the United States as a special commodity, whose consumption involves a two-stage process: homeownership entry wherein the ability to consume is pivotal, and homeownership retention wherein the outcome rests on economic security. Based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we test this conceptualization with consumption ability being proxied by income and econom…
Time‐Invariant Variables' Time‐Varying Effects: Misinterpretations of the Fixed‐Effects Model in Ascriptive Inequality Research
A popular statistical approach, the fixed‐effects regression model is known for its ability to produce unbiased coefficients by adjusting for unobserved time‐invariant individual heterogeneity. This ability is contingent on the assumption that time‐invariant variables must not have time‐varying effects, which, otherwise, would interfere in the process of coefficient estimation. In ascriptive inequality research that focuses on relatively fixed id…
Divergent trajectories and unequal returns: A temporal approach to Black-White wealth inequality in the United States
Economics (10 works) · Demographic economics (8 works) · Inequality (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Panel Study of Income Dynamics (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (5 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)