Y Qian
Biographic Data
| ID | 42439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Qian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Qian |
| SIGNATURE | QIAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2120-5403 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 313 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Resurgence of State-Sector Employment? The Covid-19 Pandemic and Chinese Workers’ Shifting Job Satisfaction
While anecdotal accounts have noted the growing appeal of state-sector jobs in China since the COVID-19 pandemic, no formal investigation has yet examined this trend. We use nationally representative data from the 2016–2022 China Family Panel Studies to analyze cross-sector trends in job satisfaction from before to during the pandemic. Multi-dimensional job satisfaction is examined, including satisfaction with income, job security, working enviro…
What Makes a Desirable Spouse in China? New Evidence From a National Survey Experiment
Objective This study examines unmarried Chinese people's preferred characteristics of a spouse and how the preferences vary by gender and across socioeconomic groups. Background Extensive research has attempted to uncover mate selection preferences, a crucial factor shaping who marries whom. Predominantly analyzing observational data, however, existing research provides only indirect inferences about individuals' mate preferences independent of s…
Impact of dual value Chain embeddedness on carbon emission intensity
Against the background of the ''dual carbon'' goal and the construction of a double cycle pattern, exploring whether the embeddedness of the domestic value chain (NVC) and that of the global value chain (GVC) can help to realize carbon emission reduction is crucial. This study calculated dual value chain embeddedness at the provincial level in China using the input-output table and the value-added decomposition model of regional embeddedness worl…
Who is concerned about digitalization? The role of digital literacy and exposure across 30 countries
Rapid digitalization has unleashed widespread digital concerns, namely concerns about the potential harms associated with digital technology use, such as privacy loss, blurred work-family boundaries, and misinformation. Analyzing nationally representative data from the European Social Survey (2020–2022; N = 49,665), we present the first evidence across 30 countries on the prevalence of and sociodemographic variations in digital concerns, as well …
Economic Risks and Mental Health During China's 2020 Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Insecure employment and irregular income have become important components of risk in contemporary society. This mixed-methods study investigates the social correlates and mental health implications of economic risks during China's 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Given China's uneven geographic distribution of COVID-19 and its distinctive institutional arrangements, we theorise and empirically test social disparities by region and work unit ( danwei ). Na…
Workplace Productivity: Gender, Parenthood, and Career Consequences in the United States
Many dual‐earner parents face ongoing challenges to securing reliable and accessible childcare, which potentially affect their productivity at work and consequential career rewards. Although productivity can ebb and flow, limited research has examined how productivity changes influence parents' access to organizational rewards, especially when productivity changes result from childcare issues outside their control. The answer to this question is …
Whose Parents Matter? Intergenerational Transmission of Earnings Arrangements in Different-Sex Couples: A Research Note
Over the past few decades, the United States has witnessed a gender revolution and transformation in family economic arrangements. However, little research has investigated the intergenerational transmission of earnings arrangements within different-sex couples, even though such knowledge illuminates the mechanisms underlying changes and continuities in the economic organization and gender relations within U.S. families. We use a life course pers…
The efficiency paradox: A temporal lens into online dating among Chinese immigrants in Canada
Online dating is widely assumed to enhance the overall efficiency of relationship formation through expanding the pool of potential partners. Yet little is known about how this presumed efficiency plays out beyond the initial search stage. Although temporal compression (i.e., saving time) is considered central to the notion of efficiency, individuals' lived realities of time and efficiency in online dating remain understudied. Adopting a grounded…
How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada
ObjectiveThis study examines, for the first time in Canada, the relationship between how different-sex couples meet and assortative mating on education, race, nativity, and age.BackgroundExtending research on how the likelihood of heterogamy differed between offline and online dating, this study disentangles the implications of institutional and third-person influences from those of online dating for configuring the patterns of heterogamy and gen…
How did Covid-19 Containment Policies Influence Depressive Symptoms? Longitudinal Evidence from China
Stressful life events and depressive symptoms during Covid-19: A gender comparison
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a wide range of public health, economic, social, and political shocks, setting in motion life events that reverberated to affect individuals' mental health. Moving beyond a checklist approach, this study drew on individuals' own words to identify both conventional and novel sources of stress during COVID-19 and examine the role of stressful life events in producing gender disparities in depressive symptoms. Draw…
How to Find Mr/Miss Right? The Mechanism of Search Among Online Daters in Shanghai
Although online dating tools have become increasingly diverse over the decades, little is known about the search strategies of individuals or their choices of using certain dating platforms. Based on interviews with 29 heterosexual, highly-educated daters conducted in Shanghai, we examine their strategies for finding a partner online. Online daters can be categorized into three distinct dating types depending on their mating goals and mate prefer…
The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework
The internet and digital technologies have penetrated all domains of people's lives, and family life is no exception. Despite being a characterizing feature of contemporary family change, the digitalization of family life has yet to be systematically theorized. Against this backdrop, this article develops a multilevel conceptual framework for understanding the digitalization of family life and illustrates the framework by synthesizing state-of-th…
The Early 2020 Covid-19 Outbreak in China and Subsequent Flourishing: Medium-Term Effects and Intervening Mechanisms
In early 2020, a COVID-19 outbreak occurred in Hubei Province of China. Exploiting the geographic concentration of China’s COVID-19 cases in Hubei (the initial epicenter), we compare Hubei and non-Hubei residents to examine the medium-term effect of exposure to the COVID-19 outbreak on mental well-being. We examine flourishing—a comprehensive assessment of well-being that is not merely the absence of mental illness—and investigate a broad set of …
The rise of the childless single in South Korea
We review the literature to show why South Korea is witnessing a dramatic rise in young adults who opt into childless singlehood. We argue that social change occurred over a compressed amount of time in South Korea. Confucian familism and ideational factors specific to the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) coexist and collide. The demands of Confucian familism also tend to be incompatible with the socioeconomic realities facing young adults. In…
Digital Ethnic Enclaves: Mate Preferences and Platform Choices Among Chinese Immigrant Online Daters in Vancouver
In light of the growing racialized immigrant population in Canada and advances in dating technologies, this study examines Chinese immigrants' partner preferences and mate selection processes through the lens of online dating. We draw on in-depth interviews with 31 Chinese immigrants who have used online dating services in Metro Vancouver to search for different-sex partners. Chinese immigrant online daters show strong preferences for dating Chin…
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world
Covid ‐19 job loss and re‐employment among partnered parents: Gender and educational variations
Objective This study examines the re‐employment prospects and short‐term career consequences for mothers and fathers who lost their jobs during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Background The pandemic recession has been dubbed a “shecession,” but few studies have explored whether mothers paid a higher or lower price upon labor market re‐entry than fathers. Method This study draws on March 2020–December 2022 Current Population Survey data and focuses on par…
Gendered age preferences for potential partners: A mixed-methods study among online daters in Shanghai
Single people increasingly look for romantic partners online. We use online dating as a lens to understand age preferences for potential partners and their implications for relationship formation and family change in China. Situated in Shanghai, this mixed-methods study employs a complementary design to analyze data from 5,888 dating profiles and 29 interviews with online daters. Using a two-sided analytical approach, we find that age preferences…
Assortative Mating Among College Graduates: Heterogeneity Across Fields of Study
Advancing prior research that treated college graduates as a homogeneous group, we investigate heterogeneity in assortative mating patterns across baccalaureate degree fields. As baccalaureate degree fields are related to occupation, an important question remains about whether field-of-study homogamy begets occupational homogamy. We drew on the school-to-work transition literature, which shows that baccalaureate degree fields differ in their link…
Child Marriage in Mainland China
Child marriage, defined as marriage before 18 years of age, has harmful consequences for health and development and is an indicator of gender inequality. We used publicly available data from the 2000 and 2010 censuses to estimate the national and provincial‐level prevalence of child marriage across mainland China. Between 2000 and 2010, the prevalence of child marriage rose from 2.41 percent to 2.85 percent among women and from 0.54 percent to 0.…
Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time
Using the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey, the authors investigate how a comprehensive set of temporal conditions of paid work affects parental child care time, with attention to gender and education. Temporal work conditions include access to leave, inflexible start and end times, short advance notice of work schedules, types of work shifts, and usual days worked. Among mothers, the only significant relationship is between usual days worked a…
Coethnic Concentration and Asians’ Perceived Discrimination across U.S. Counties during Covid-19
Aggregate figures unequivocally depict an increase in anti-Asian sentiment in the United States and other Western countries since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is limited understanding of the contexts under which Asians encounter discrimination. The authors examine how coethnic concentration shapes Asians’ experiences of discrimination across U.S. counties during COVID-19 and also assess whether county-level context (e.g., COVID-1…
Belief in Science and Beliefs about Covid-19: Educational Gradients
Prior research has attributed the socio-economic disparity in COVID-19 infections to differences in degrees of exposure or economic resources. This study proposes beliefs about COVID-19 as a potential additional explanation. We conducted a nationally representative US survey with six measures of COVID-19 beliefs. Socio-economic status was measured through educational level. Compared with less-educated respondents, highly educated respondents trea…
How did Wuhan residents cope with a 76-day lockdown
Wuhan, the original epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, was under strict lockdown for 76 days. The authors conducted 30 in-depth interviews to understand Wuhan residents’ lived experiences of lockdown life. This chapter showed that despite strong emotions initially, Wuhan residents quickly adapted to life under unprecedented lockdown. Three pre-existing structures facilitated the effective implementation of the massive lockdown: ready-made contai…
Covid-19 and the Gender Employment Gap among Parents of Young Children
Working life in Canada has changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Labour Force Survey data, we show that gender employment gaps among parents of young children widened considerably between February and May 2020, net of differences in job and personal characteristics. Gender gaps grew more for parents of elementary school-aged children rather than preschoolers, and among less educated parents. To aid postpandemic recovery and pre…
The gendered pandemic: The implications of Covid‐19 for work and family
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly all the aspects of society since it's onset in early 2020. In addition to infecting and taking the lives of millions of global citizens, the pandemic has fundamentally changed family and work patterns. The pandemic and associated mitigation measures have increased the unemployment rates, amplified health risks for essential workers required to work on-site, and led to unprecedented rates of telecommuting.…
Gender Asymmetry in Educational and Income Assortative Marriage
The reversal of the gender gap in education has reshaped the U.S. marriage market. Drawing on data from the 1980 U.S. Census and the 2008-2012 American Community Surveys, the author used log-linear models to examine gender asymmetry in educational and income assortative mating among newlyweds. Between 1980 and 2008-2012, educational assortative mating reversed from a tendency for women to marry up to a tendency for women to marry down in educatio…
Who loses income during the Covid-19 outbreak? Evidence from China
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every facet of society. In addition to directly affecting population health, the economic impact of this social shock has begun to be palpable at the individual level. Situated in this context, this research note draws on data collected from Mainland China in March–April, 2020 to examine the individual-level economic toll of the COVID-19 outbreak. We investigate how individuals’ income (when surveyed) has cha…
Couples' changing work patterns in the United Kingdom and the United States during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Going beyond a focus on individual-level employment outcomes, we investigate couples' changing work patterns in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing longitudinal panels of 2186 couples from the Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey (UK) and 2718 couples from the Current Population Survey (US), we assess whether the pandemic has elevated the importance of human capital vis-à-vis traditional gen…
Educational Assortative Mating and Income Dynamics in Couples: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
The question of how educational assortative mating may transform couples' lives and within-family gender inequality has gained increasing attention. Using 25 waves (1979-2012) of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and longitudinal multilevel dyad models, this study investigated how educational assortative mating shapes income dynamics in couples during the marital life course. Couples were grouped into three categories-educa…
Hukou Locality and Intermarriages in Two Chinese Cities: Shanghai and Shenzhen
The rise of the childless single in South Korea
We review the literature to show why South Korea is witnessing a dramatic rise in young adults who opt into childless singlehood. We argue that social change occurred over a compressed amount of time in South Korea. Confucian familism and ideational factors specific to the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) coexist and collide. The demands of Confucian familism also tend to be incompatible with the socioeconomic realities facing young adults. In…
Covid-19, Inter-household Contact and Mental Well-Being Among Older Adults in the US and the UK
Interacting with family members and friends from other households is a key part of everyday life and is crucial to people's mental well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic severely curtailed face-to-face contact between households, particularly for older adults (aged 60 and above), due to their high risk of developing severe illness if infected by COVID-19. In-person contact, where possible, was largely replaced by virtual interaction during the pandemi…
Disruption or reproduction? Nativity, gender and online dating in Canada
Purpose The spread of the Internet has transformed the dating landscape. Given the increasing popularity of online dating and rising immigration to Canada, this study takes an intersectional lens to examine nativity and gender differentials in heterosexual online dating. Design/methodology/approach In 2018, a random-digit-dial telephone survey was conducted in Canada. Logistic regression models were used to analyze original data from this survey …
Premarital Pregnancy in China: Cohort Trends and Educational Gradients
In China, premarital sexual and reproductive behavior is seldom considered and poorly understood. Increases in premarital pregnancy are thought to not only illuminate a decoupling of marriage and sexual/reproductive behavior but also serve as a key feature of family change in East Asia. This study assesses change across cohorts in the likelihood of premarital pregnancy and the extent to which change differs by educational attainment. Drawing on t…
Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China's Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
Research on stigma and discrimination during COVID-19 has focused on racism and xenophobia in Western countries. In comparison, little research has considered stigma processes, discrimination, and their public health implications in non-Western contexts. This study draws on quantitative survey data (N = 7,942) and qualitative interview data (N = 50) to understand the emergence, experiences, and mental health implications of stigma and discriminat…
Constellations of gender ideology, earnings arrangements, and marital satisfaction: A comparison across four East Asian societies
Recent research conducted in Western countries highlights gender ideology as a multidimensional concept. Little, however, is known in East Asia about the patterns and consequences of constellations of gender ideology (i.e. clusters of attitudes towards gender relations in different domains). Using data from 3,541 married respondents in the 2006 East Asian Social Survey (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), we identify four constellations—egali…
Concentration and dispersion: School-to-work linkages and their impact on occupational assortative mating
More people now are delaying marriage until after they have entered the labor market. Occupation has therefore become increasingly important in providing opportunities for meeting potential spouses. By bringing the school-to-work linkage literature into assortative mating research, this study illuminates the important roles of field of study and school-to-work linkages in shaping occupational homogamy among college graduates. We analyze 41,220 co…
Mate selection among online daters in Shanghai: Why does education matter
Prior studies of assortative mating have shown that people tend to marry someone of the same educational level, but why individuals value a mate's education and the process of mate selection itself remain a black box in predominantly quantitative studies. With online dating's growing popularity, research needs to examine how online daters navigate dating markets given educational preferences they hold and "freedom of choice" offered by technologi…
Rising educational gradients in mortality among U.S. whites: What are the roles of marital status and educational homogamy
Native-immigrant occupational segregation and worker health in the United States, 2004–2014
How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada
ObjectiveThis study examines, for the first time in Canada, the relationship between how different-sex couples meet and assortative mating on education, race, nativity, and age.BackgroundExtending research on how the likelihood of heterogamy differed between offline and online dating, this study disentangles the implications of institutional and third-person influences from those of online dating for configuring the patterns of heterogamy and gen…
The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework
The internet and digital technologies have penetrated all domains of people's lives, and family life is no exception. Despite being a characterizing feature of contemporary family change, the digitalization of family life has yet to be systematically theorized. Against this backdrop, this article develops a multilevel conceptual framework for understanding the digitalization of family life and illustrates the framework by synthesizing state-of-th…
Digital Ethnic Enclaves: Mate Preferences and Platform Choices Among Chinese Immigrant Online Daters in Vancouver
In light of the growing racialized immigrant population in Canada and advances in dating technologies, this study examines Chinese immigrants' partner preferences and mate selection processes through the lens of online dating. We draw on in-depth interviews with 31 Chinese immigrants who have used online dating services in Metro Vancouver to search for different-sex partners. Chinese immigrant online daters show strong preferences for dating Chin…
Coethnic Concentration and Asians’ Perceived Discrimination across U.S. Counties during Covid-19
Aggregate figures unequivocally depict an increase in anti-Asian sentiment in the United States and other Western countries since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there is limited understanding of the contexts under which Asians encounter discrimination. The authors examine how coethnic concentration shapes Asians’ experiences of discrimination across U.S. counties during COVID-19 and also assess whether county-level context (e.g., COVID-1…
Stressful life events and depressive symptoms during Covid-19: A gender comparison
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated a wide range of public health, economic, social, and political shocks, setting in motion life events that reverberated to affect individuals' mental health. Moving beyond a checklist approach, this study drew on individuals' own words to identify both conventional and novel sources of stress during COVID-19 and examine the role of stressful life events in producing gender disparities in depressive symptoms. Draw…
Gender and Educational Variation in How Temporal Dimensions of Paid Work Affect Parental Child Care Time
Using the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey, the authors investigate how a comprehensive set of temporal conditions of paid work affects parental child care time, with attention to gender and education. Temporal work conditions include access to leave, inflexible start and end times, short advance notice of work schedules, types of work shifts, and usual days worked. Among mothers, the only significant relationship is between usual days worked a…
The efficiency paradox: A temporal lens into online dating among Chinese immigrants in Canada
Online dating is widely assumed to enhance the overall efficiency of relationship formation through expanding the pool of potential partners. Yet little is known about how this presumed efficiency plays out beyond the initial search stage. Although temporal compression (i.e., saving time) is considered central to the notion of efficiency, individuals' lived realities of time and efficiency in online dating remain understudied. Adopting a grounded…
Effects of supplementing lactic acid bacteria on fecal microbiota, total cholesterol, triglycerides and bile acids in rats
Background: Probiotics (LAB) are normal components of the intestinal micro-flora in both humans and animals and its ingestion in decreasing the risk of atherosclerosis. In addition, the potential health effects of LAB were investigated by monitoring changes in intestinal micro-flora and lipid metabolism in a rat model.Materials and Methods: Rats were randomly assigned into four treatments and fecal samples were obtained on days 1, 3, 5, 9 and 14,…
Man Up, Man Down: Race–Ethnicity and the Hierarchy of Men in Female-Dominated Work
Scholars have largely overlooked the significance of race and socioeconomic status in determining which men traverse gender boundaries into female-dominated, typically devalued, work. Examining the gender composition of the jobs that racial minority men occupy provides critical insights into mechanisms of broader racial disparities in the labor market—in addition to stalled occupational desegregation trends between men and women. Using nationally…
Native-immigrant occupational segregation and worker health in the United States, 2004–2014
Gender Asymmetry in Educational and Income Assortative Marriage
The reversal of the gender gap in education has reshaped the U.S. marriage market. Drawing on data from the 1980 U.S. Census and the 2008-2012 American Community Surveys, the author used log-linear models to examine gender asymmetry in educational and income assortative mating among newlyweds. Between 1980 and 2008-2012, educational assortative mating reversed from a tendency for women to marry up to a tendency for women to marry down in educatio…
Hukou Locality and Intermarriages in Two Chinese Cities: Shanghai and Shenzhen
Educational Assortative Mating and Income Dynamics in Couples: A Longitudinal Dyadic Perspective
The question of how educational assortative mating may transform couples' lives and within-family gender inequality has gained increasing attention. Using 25 waves (1979-2012) of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and longitudinal multilevel dyad models, this study investigated how educational assortative mating shapes income dynamics in couples during the marital life course. Couples were grouped into three categories-educa…
Study of county-level low-carbon standards in China based on carbon emissions per capita
Low-carbon development is an essential measure to combat climate change, and the establishment of low-carbon standards is an important means to achieve low-carbon development. Due to the differences in size and development level among counties of China, the applicability and fairness of county-level low-carbon standards are very important in this country. This study analyzed the trends of county-level carbon emissions in China, defined the peak v…
Rising educational gradients in mortality among U.S. whites: What are the roles of marital status and educational homogamy
Optimal visual perception in land-use planning and design based on landsenses ecology
Land-use planning and design (LPD) is one of the most critical passways toward sustainable development. LPD without thorough considerations can cause many problems, such as disharmony between people’s perception and nature, the chaos of spatial patterns, and the misuse of land resources. Landsenses ecology, a discipline based on natural elements and people’s perception, provide scientific basis to guide LPD. Here we summarized the state-of-the-ar…
Anti-Asian discrimination and the Asian-white mental health gap during Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread mental health issues. In this article, we consider how, due to a spike in anti-Asian hate crimes across the country, Asians might face a disproportionate mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing data from the University of Southern California’s Center for Economic and Social Research Understanding Coronavirus in America survey, we report several major findings. First, since the onset of …
Mate selection among online daters in Shanghai: Why does education matter
Prior studies of assortative mating have shown that people tend to marry someone of the same educational level, but why individuals value a mate's education and the process of mate selection itself remain a black box in predominantly quantitative studies. With online dating's growing popularity, research needs to examine how online daters navigate dating markets given educational preferences they hold and "freedom of choice" offered by technologi…
Covid-19 and the Gender Employment Gap among Parents of Young Children
Working life in Canada has changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Labour Force Survey data, we show that gender employment gaps among parents of young children widened considerably between February and May 2020, net of differences in job and personal characteristics. Gender gaps grew more for parents of elementary school-aged children rather than preschoolers, and among less educated parents. To aid postpandemic recovery and pre…
Who loses income during the Covid-19 outbreak? Evidence from China
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every facet of society. In addition to directly affecting population health, the economic impact of this social shock has begun to be palpable at the individual level. Situated in this context, this research note draws on data collected from Mainland China in March–April, 2020 to examine the individual-level economic toll of the COVID-19 outbreak. We investigate how individuals’ income (when surveyed) has cha…
Premarital Pregnancy in China: Cohort Trends and Educational Gradients
In China, premarital sexual and reproductive behavior is seldom considered and poorly understood. Increases in premarital pregnancy are thought to not only illuminate a decoupling of marriage and sexual/reproductive behavior but also serve as a key feature of family change in East Asia. This study assesses change across cohorts in the likelihood of premarital pregnancy and the extent to which change differs by educational attainment. Drawing on t…
How did Wuhan residents cope with a 76-day lockdown
Wuhan, the original epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, was under strict lockdown for 76 days. The authors conducted 30 in-depth interviews to understand Wuhan residents’ lived experiences of lockdown life. This chapter showed that despite strong emotions initially, Wuhan residents quickly adapted to life under unprecedented lockdown. Three pre-existing structures facilitated the effective implementation of the massive lockdown: ready-made contai…
Covid-19, Inter-household Contact and Mental Well-Being Among Older Adults in the US and the UK
Interacting with family members and friends from other households is a key part of everyday life and is crucial to people's mental well-being. The COVID-19 pandemic severely curtailed face-to-face contact between households, particularly for older adults (aged 60 and above), due to their high risk of developing severe illness if infected by COVID-19. In-person contact, where possible, was largely replaced by virtual interaction during the pandemi…
The gendered pandemic: The implications of Covid‐19 for work and family
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly all the aspects of society since it's onset in early 2020. In addition to infecting and taking the lives of millions of global citizens, the pandemic has fundamentally changed family and work patterns. The pandemic and associated mitigation measures have increased the unemployment rates, amplified health risks for essential workers required to work on-site, and led to unprecedented rates of telecommuting.…
Constellations of gender ideology, earnings arrangements, and marital satisfaction: A comparison across four East Asian societies
Recent research conducted in Western countries highlights gender ideology as a multidimensional concept. Little, however, is known in East Asia about the patterns and consequences of constellations of gender ideology (i.e. clusters of attitudes towards gender relations in different domains). Using data from 3,541 married respondents in the 2006 East Asian Social Survey (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan), we identify four constellations—egali…
Migration policies on migrant–native marriage: A multilevel analysis of 43 Chinese cities
China's household registration ( hukou ) system creates internal migration patterns similar to international patterns. Variations in the stringency of city policies for acquiring local hukou provide a unique opportunity to examine how migration policies affect migrant–native marriage. In this study, we merge a city‐level index that measures the overall difficulty of obtaining local hukou in 43 Chinese cities with China's 2005 mini‐census. Results…
Disruption or reproduction? Nativity, gender and online dating in Canada
Purpose The spread of the Internet has transformed the dating landscape. Given the increasing popularity of online dating and rising immigration to Canada, this study takes an intersectional lens to examine nativity and gender differentials in heterosexual online dating. Design/methodology/approach In 2018, a random-digit-dial telephone survey was conducted in Canada. Logistic regression models were used to analyze original data from this survey …
Couples' changing work patterns in the United Kingdom and the United States during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Going beyond a focus on individual-level employment outcomes, we investigate couples' changing work patterns in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Analyzing longitudinal panels of 2186 couples from the Understanding Society COVID-19 Survey (UK) and 2718 couples from the Current Population Survey (US), we assess whether the pandemic has elevated the importance of human capital vis-à-vis traditional gen…
Concentration and dispersion: School-to-work linkages and their impact on occupational assortative mating
More people now are delaying marriage until after they have entered the labor market. Occupation has therefore become increasingly important in providing opportunities for meeting potential spouses. By bringing the school-to-work linkage literature into assortative mating research, this study illuminates the important roles of field of study and school-to-work linkages in shaping occupational homogamy among college graduates. We analyze 41,220 co…
Stigma, Perceived Discrimination, and Mental Health during China's Covid-19 Outbreak: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
Research on stigma and discrimination during COVID-19 has focused on racism and xenophobia in Western countries. In comparison, little research has considered stigma processes, discrimination, and their public health implications in non-Western contexts. This study draws on quantitative survey data (N = 7,942) and qualitative interview data (N = 50) to understand the emergence, experiences, and mental health implications of stigma and discriminat…
Gendered age preferences for potential partners: A mixed-methods study among online daters in Shanghai
Single people increasingly look for romantic partners online. We use online dating as a lens to understand age preferences for potential partners and their implications for relationship formation and family change in China. Situated in Shanghai, this mixed-methods study employs a complementary design to analyze data from 5,888 dating profiles and 29 interviews with online daters. Using a two-sided analytical approach, we find that age preferences…
Assortative Mating Among College Graduates: Heterogeneity Across Fields of Study
Advancing prior research that treated college graduates as a homogeneous group, we investigate heterogeneity in assortative mating patterns across baccalaureate degree fields. As baccalaureate degree fields are related to occupation, an important question remains about whether field-of-study homogamy begets occupational homogamy. We drew on the school-to-work transition literature, which shows that baccalaureate degree fields differ in their link…
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