Guanglei Hong
Biographic Data
| ID | 4270719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guanglei Hong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guanglei |
| FAMILY NAME | Hong |
| SIGNATURE | HONG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8254-4655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Evaluating Organizational Effectiveness: A New Strategy to Leverage Multisite Randomized Trials for Valid Assessment
Determining which organizations are more effective in implementing an intervention program is essential for theoretically and empirically characterizing exemplary practice and for intervening to enhance the capacity of ineffective ones. However, sites differ in their local ecological conditions including client composition, availability of alternative programs, and broader community context. Applying the causal inference framework, this study pro…
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood
The impact of a major historical event on child and youth development has been of great interest in the study of the life course. This study is focused on assessing the causal effect of the Great Recession on youth disconnection from school and work. Building on the insights offered by the age-period-cohort research, econometric methods, and developmental psychology, we innovatively develop a causal inference strategy that takes advantage of the …
Unpacking Complex Mediation Mechanisms and Their Heterogeneity Between Sites in a Job Corps Evaluation
This study aims to test the theory underlying Job Corps, one of the largest education and training programs in the U.S. serving disadvantaged youth. Central to the program are vocational training and general education that serve as two concurrent mediators transmitting the program impact on earnings. To distinguish the relative contribution of each, we develop methods for decomposing the Job Corps impact on earnings into an indirect effect transm…
Causality in a Social World: Moderation, Meditation and Spill‐over
Causality in a Social World introduces innovative new statistical research and strategies for investigating moderated intervention effects, mediated intervention effects, and spill-over effects using experimental or quasi-experimental data. The book uses potential outcomes to define causal effects, explains and evaluates identification assumptions using application examples, and compares innovative statistical strategies with conventional analysi…
Supplemental Material for Effects of Kindergarten Retention on Children's Social-Emotional Development: An Application of Propensity Score Method to Multivariate, Multilevel Data
Effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development: An application of propensity score method to multivariate, multilevel data
This study examines the effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development in the early, middle, and late elementary years. Previous studies have generated mixed results partly due to some major methodological challenges, including selection bias, measurement error, and divergent perceptions of multiple respondents in different domains of child development. The authors address these challenges by using propensity score s…
Evaluating Kindergarten Retention Policy: A Case Study of Causal Inference for Multilevel Observational Data
This article considers the policy of retaining low-achieving children in kindergarten rather than promoting them to first grade. Under the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA) as articulated by Rubin, each child at risk of retention has two potential outcomes: Y(1) if retained and Y(0) if promoted. But SUTVA is questionable, because a child's potential outcomes will plausibly depend on which school that child attends and also on treatme…
Effects of Kindergarten Retention Policy on Children’s Cognitive Growth in Reading and Mathematics
Grade retention has been controversial for many years, and current calls to end social promotion have lent new urgency to this issue. On the one hand, a policy of retaining in grade those students making slow progress might facilitate instruction by making classrooms more homogeneous academically. On the other hand, grade retention might harm high-risk students by limiting their learning opportunities. Analyzing data from the US Early Childhood L…
Effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development: An application of propensity score method to multivariate, multilevel data
This study examines the effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development in the early, middle, and late elementary years. Previous studies have generated mixed results partly due to some major methodological challenges, including selection bias, measurement error, and divergent perceptions of multiple respondents in different domains of child development. The authors address these challenges by using propensity score s…
Unpacking Complex Mediation Mechanisms and Their Heterogeneity Between Sites in a Job Corps Evaluation
This study aims to test the theory underlying Job Corps, one of the largest education and training programs in the U.S. serving disadvantaged youth. Central to the program are vocational training and general education that serve as two concurrent mediators transmitting the program impact on earnings. To distinguish the relative contribution of each, we develop methods for decomposing the Job Corps impact on earnings into an indirect effect transm…
Effects of Kindergarten Retention Policy on Children’s Cognitive Growth in Reading and Mathematics
Grade retention has been controversial for many years, and current calls to end social promotion have lent new urgency to this issue. On the one hand, a policy of retaining in grade those students making slow progress might facilitate instruction by making classrooms more homogeneous academically. On the other hand, grade retention might harm high-risk students by limiting their learning opportunities. Analyzing data from the US Early Childhood L…
Evaluating Kindergarten Retention Policy: A Case Study of Causal Inference for Multilevel Observational Data
This article considers the policy of retaining low-achieving children in kindergarten rather than promoting them to first grade. Under the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA) as articulated by Rubin, each child at risk of retention has two potential outcomes: Y(1) if retained and Y(0) if promoted. But SUTVA is questionable, because a child's potential outcomes will plausibly depend on which school that child attends and also on treatme…
Supplemental Material for Effects of Kindergarten Retention on Children's Social-Emotional Development: An Application of Propensity Score Method to Multivariate, Multilevel Data
Effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development: An application of propensity score method to multivariate, multilevel data
This study examines the effects of kindergarten retention on children's social-emotional development in the early, middle, and late elementary years. Previous studies have generated mixed results partly due to some major methodological challenges, including selection bias, measurement error, and divergent perceptions of multiple respondents in different domains of child development. The authors address these challenges by using propensity score s…
Causality in a Social World: Moderation, Meditation and Spill‐over
Causality in a Social World introduces innovative new statistical research and strategies for investigating moderated intervention effects, mediated intervention effects, and spill-over effects using experimental or quasi-experimental data. The book uses potential outcomes to define causal effects, explains and evaluates identification assumptions using application examples, and compares innovative statistical strategies with conventional analysi…
Unpacking Complex Mediation Mechanisms and Their Heterogeneity Between Sites in a Job Corps Evaluation
This study aims to test the theory underlying Job Corps, one of the largest education and training programs in the U.S. serving disadvantaged youth. Central to the program are vocational training and general education that serve as two concurrent mediators transmitting the program impact on earnings. To distinguish the relative contribution of each, we develop methods for decomposing the Job Corps impact on earnings into an indirect effect transm…
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood
The impact of a major historical event on child and youth development has been of great interest in the study of the life course. This study is focused on assessing the causal effect of the Great Recession on youth disconnection from school and work. Building on the insights offered by the age-period-cohort research, econometric methods, and developmental psychology, we innovatively develop a causal inference strategy that takes advantage of the …
Evaluating Organizational Effectiveness: A New Strategy to Leverage Multisite Randomized Trials for Valid Assessment
Determining which organizations are more effective in implementing an intervention program is essential for theoretically and empirically characterizing exemplary practice and for intervening to enhance the capacity of ineffective ones. However, sites differ in their local ecological conditions including client composition, availability of alternative programs, and broader community context. Applying the causal inference framework, this study pro…
Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Academic achievement (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Grade retention (4 works) · Multilevel model (4 works) · Propensity score matching (4 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (3 works)