H Xu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 34466 |
|---|---|
| NOME | H Xu |
| PRENOMES | H |
| SOBRENOME | Xu |
| ASSINATURA | XU H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queens College, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9227-8904 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 107 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Mortality Risk of Raising Grandchildren in the United States
In the United States, grandparents who live with and provide primary care to their grandchildren have emerged as a particularly vulnerable group since the 1990s. Using confidential data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Social Security Administration, this study linked individuals ages 50 years or older from the 2000 census long-form sample to their death records from 2000 to 2019 (weighted N = 64,027,000) and examined the longitudinal association …
Impact of straw burning on air quality in China
The open-air burning of straw has been one of the major sources of air pollution in China. Accurately detecting and measuring the scope and extent of straw-burning activities is crucial for effective environmental policies. However, the wide-spread practice by numerous small-scale rural units across rural China makes this a challenging undertaking. Our study contributes to this stream of research by leveraging mid-resolution Landsat-8 OLI sensor …
Tackling Traditional
Modernization theory posited gender ideology as a unidimensional continuum from “traditional” to egalitarian, with societies becoming more egalitarian as they progress. Recent research replaces this unidimensional view with multidimensionality, but other remnants of modernization theory remain. We tackle such remnants by examining gender ideologies and their socioeconomic correlates in Tamil Nadu, an Indian state often labeled “traditional.” Usin…
Intergenerational caregiving among “sandwich grandparents” in China
“Sandwich grandparents” are middle-aged and older adults who have both living parents (or parents-in-law) and young grandchildren. They are faced with competing demands for caregiving from multiple generations. This study examines the prevalence, trends, and patterns of caregiving by sandwich grandparents in China. Drawing on nationally representative longitudinal data, this study estimates that more than 150 million Chinese adults aged 45 and ol…
Son preference and Chinese women's biological health risk in middle and older age
Son preference is a severe form of gender discrimination and can impair women's health. Drawing on retrospective data from a nationally representative sample, this life course study examines how experience of guardians’ son preference in childhood is associated with Chinese women's health in middle and older age. Using imbalanced sex ratio at birth at the prefecture level as a proxy, this study also examines the health implications of adulthood e…
Grandparenting and Cognitive Functioning in China
Supplemental Material for Does Hoodwinking Others Pay? The Psychological and Relational Consequences of Undetected Negotiator Deception
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China
This study examined the cross-sectional associations between intergenerational caregiving and health risks among sandwiched Chinese grandparents who provide care to grandchildren, great-grandparents, or both. Drawing on biomarker data from the 2011 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (N range = 2,189-3,035), we measured age-related biological health risks of hypertension, diabetes, inflammation, and allostatic load. We foun…
Premarital Fertility and Marital Timing in Malawi
In Malawi, Africa, the median age at first marriage is among the lowest on the continent and adolescent fertility rates are among the highest. Using high‐frequency panel data from the country designed to follow single women and men into marriage, we examine the extent to which premarital fertility is associated with the timing of marriage. Two notable findings emerge. First, premarital fertility typically leads to a more rapid transition into mar…
"What doesn't kill you makes you "smarter
Women's Political Leadership and Adult Health
This study examined the role of women's political leadership at the community level in China, a context that has experienced recent political and socioeconomic change and has a distinctive rural-urban divide. Drawing on longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies (N range = 40,918-52,406 person-year observations), we found that female community directors outnumbered male directors in urban China but were much less common in rural areas.…
Does Subjective Social Status Predict Self-Rated Health in Chinese Adults and Why
Physical and mental health of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren and great-grandparents
Does widowhood affect cognitive function among Chinese older adults
There is growing evidence from Western countries that widowhood may affect cognitive health in later life. However, little is known about whether widowhood is associated with cognitive health in Eastern Asian countries such as China and what factors may explain the association between widowhood and cognitive health. We add to this line of research by investigating the effect of widowhood on 2-year change in cognitive function among Chinese adults…
Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980
BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are affecting the number of adults with diabetes. METHODS: We pooled data from population-ba…
Associations between physical health and depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults
This is one of the first studies to examine the buffering effect of neighborhood resources, specifically leisure amenities and voluntary associations, on the relationship between poor physical health and depressive symptoms among older persons in China. Using data from the 2011 baseline survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, the analytical sample included 4715 older adults aged 60 and over nested in 446 neighborhoods. Two-l…
An ecological study of social fragmentation, socioeconomic deprivation, and suicide in rural China
China accounts for a large number of suicides worldwide, and most occur in rural areas. Suicide research in China has primarily focused on individual-level risk factors, few have studied the influence of neighborhood contexts. This ecological study examines the association of suicide rates with social fragmentation and socioeconomic deprivation in Chinese rural villages. Data from the community survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudin…
Developmental idealism, body weight and shape, and marriage entry in transitional China
New trends toward later and less marriage are emerging in post-reform China. Previous research has examined the changing individual-level socioeconomic and demographic characteristics shaping marriage entry in Chinese adults. Employing a cultural model known as developmental idealism (DI), this study argues that a new worldview specifying an ideal body type has become popular in the West and that this new worldview has been exported to China. Thi…
Is natural experiment a cure? Re-examining the long-term health effects of China's 1959-1961 famine
Inequality in children’s well-being and development
China’s rapid socio-economic and demographic changes have raised concerns about growing socio-economic inequalities in children’s well-being. Drawing on the data from the 2010 and 2012 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study systematically examines the socio-economic inequalities in children’s objective and subjective well-being as well as differentials in children’s growth trajectories. We find strong evidence of persistent ur…
Assessing the Effectiveness of Anchoring Vignettes in Bias Reduction for Socioeconomic Disparities in Self-rated Health among Chinese Adults
The authors investigate how reporting heterogeneity may bias socioeconomic and demographic disparities in self-rated general health, a widely used health indicator, and how such bias can be adjusted by using new anchoring vignettes designed in the 2012 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The authors find systematic variation by sociodemographic characteristics in thresholds used by respondents in rating their general health status. Suc…
Comparing Spatial and Multilevel Regression Models for Binary Outcomes in Neighborhood Studies
The standard multilevel regressions that are widely used in neighborhood research typically ignore potential between-neighborhood correlations due to underlying spatial processes, and hence they produce inappropriate inferences about neighborhood effects. In contrast, spatial models make estimations and predictions across areas by explicitly modeling the spatial correlations among observations in different locations. A better understanding of the…
Identifying and Bounding Ethnic Neighborhoods
This study presents three novel approaches to the question of how best to identify ethnic neighborhoods (or more generally, neighborhoods defined any aspect of their population composition) and to define their boundaries. It takes advantage of unusual data on the residential locations of all residents of Newark, NJ, in 1880 to avoid having to accept arbitrary administrative units (like census tracts) as the building blocks of neighborhoods. For t…
Applying spatial thinking in social science research
Physical and mental health of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren and great-grandparents
Assessing the Effectiveness of Anchoring Vignettes in Bias Reduction for Socioeconomic Disparities in Self-rated Health among Chinese Adults
The authors investigate how reporting heterogeneity may bias socioeconomic and demographic disparities in self-rated general health, a widely used health indicator, and how such bias can be adjusted by using new anchoring vignettes designed in the 2012 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The authors find systematic variation by sociodemographic characteristics in thresholds used by respondents in rating their general health status. Suc…
Identifying and Bounding Ethnic Neighborhoods
This study presents three novel approaches to the question of how best to identify ethnic neighborhoods (or more generally, neighborhoods defined any aspect of their population composition) and to define their boundaries. It takes advantage of unusual data on the residential locations of all residents of Newark, NJ, in 1880 to avoid having to accept arbitrary administrative units (like census tracts) as the building blocks of neighborhoods. For t…
Comparing Spatial and Multilevel Regression Models for Binary Outcomes in Neighborhood Studies
The standard multilevel regressions that are widely used in neighborhood research typically ignore potential between-neighborhood correlations due to underlying spatial processes, and hence they produce inappropriate inferences about neighborhood effects. In contrast, spatial models make estimations and predictions across areas by explicitly modeling the spatial correlations among observations in different locations. A better understanding of the…
Applying spatial thinking in social science research
Is natural experiment a cure? Re-examining the long-term health effects of China's 1959-1961 famine
Does Subjective Social Status Predict Self-Rated Health in Chinese Adults and Why
Grandparenting and Cognitive Functioning in China
Premarital Fertility and Marital Timing in Malawi
In Malawi, Africa, the median age at first marriage is among the lowest on the continent and adolescent fertility rates are among the highest. Using high‐frequency panel data from the country designed to follow single women and men into marriage, we examine the extent to which premarital fertility is associated with the timing of marriage. Two notable findings emerge. First, premarital fertility typically leads to a more rapid transition into mar…
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China
This study examined the cross-sectional associations between intergenerational caregiving and health risks among sandwiched Chinese grandparents who provide care to grandchildren, great-grandparents, or both. Drawing on biomarker data from the 2011 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (N range = 2,189-3,035), we measured age-related biological health risks of hypertension, diabetes, inflammation, and allostatic load. We foun…
Applying spatial thinking in social science research
Identifying and Bounding Ethnic Neighborhoods
This study presents three novel approaches to the question of how best to identify ethnic neighborhoods (or more generally, neighborhoods defined any aspect of their population composition) and to define their boundaries. It takes advantage of unusual data on the residential locations of all residents of Newark, NJ, in 1880 to avoid having to accept arbitrary administrative units (like census tracts) as the building blocks of neighborhoods. For t…
Comparing Spatial and Multilevel Regression Models for Binary Outcomes in Neighborhood Studies
The standard multilevel regressions that are widely used in neighborhood research typically ignore potential between-neighborhood correlations due to underlying spatial processes, and hence they produce inappropriate inferences about neighborhood effects. In contrast, spatial models make estimations and predictions across areas by explicitly modeling the spatial correlations among observations in different locations. A better understanding of the…
Inequality in children’s well-being and development
China’s rapid socio-economic and demographic changes have raised concerns about growing socio-economic inequalities in children’s well-being. Drawing on the data from the 2010 and 2012 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this study systematically examines the socio-economic inequalities in children’s objective and subjective well-being as well as differentials in children’s growth trajectories. We find strong evidence of persistent ur…
Assessing the Effectiveness of Anchoring Vignettes in Bias Reduction for Socioeconomic Disparities in Self-rated Health among Chinese Adults
The authors investigate how reporting heterogeneity may bias socioeconomic and demographic disparities in self-rated general health, a widely used health indicator, and how such bias can be adjusted by using new anchoring vignettes designed in the 2012 wave of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS). The authors find systematic variation by sociodemographic characteristics in thresholds used by respondents in rating their general health status. Suc…
Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980
BACKGROUND: One of the global targets for non-communicable diseases is to halt, by 2025, the rise in the age-standardised adult prevalence of diabetes at its 2010 levels. We aimed to estimate worldwide trends in diabetes, how likely it is for countries to achieve the global target, and how changes in prevalence, together with population growth and ageing, are affecting the number of adults with diabetes. METHODS: We pooled data from population-ba…
Associations between physical health and depressive symptoms in Chinese older adults
This is one of the first studies to examine the buffering effect of neighborhood resources, specifically leisure amenities and voluntary associations, on the relationship between poor physical health and depressive symptoms among older persons in China. Using data from the 2011 baseline survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study, the analytical sample included 4715 older adults aged 60 and over nested in 446 neighborhoods. Two-l…
An ecological study of social fragmentation, socioeconomic deprivation, and suicide in rural China
China accounts for a large number of suicides worldwide, and most occur in rural areas. Suicide research in China has primarily focused on individual-level risk factors, few have studied the influence of neighborhood contexts. This ecological study examines the association of suicide rates with social fragmentation and socioeconomic deprivation in Chinese rural villages. Data from the community survey of the China Health and Retirement Longitudin…
Developmental idealism, body weight and shape, and marriage entry in transitional China
New trends toward later and less marriage are emerging in post-reform China. Previous research has examined the changing individual-level socioeconomic and demographic characteristics shaping marriage entry in Chinese adults. Employing a cultural model known as developmental idealism (DI), this study argues that a new worldview specifying an ideal body type has become popular in the West and that this new worldview has been exported to China. Thi…
Is natural experiment a cure? Re-examining the long-term health effects of China's 1959-1961 famine
Does widowhood affect cognitive function among Chinese older adults
There is growing evidence from Western countries that widowhood may affect cognitive health in later life. However, little is known about whether widowhood is associated with cognitive health in Eastern Asian countries such as China and what factors may explain the association between widowhood and cognitive health. We add to this line of research by investigating the effect of widowhood on 2-year change in cognitive function among Chinese adults…
Physical and mental health of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren and great-grandparents
Does Subjective Social Status Predict Self-Rated Health in Chinese Adults and Why
Premarital Fertility and Marital Timing in Malawi
In Malawi, Africa, the median age at first marriage is among the lowest on the continent and adolescent fertility rates are among the highest. Using high‐frequency panel data from the country designed to follow single women and men into marriage, we examine the extent to which premarital fertility is associated with the timing of marriage. Two notable findings emerge. First, premarital fertility typically leads to a more rapid transition into mar…
"What doesn't kill you makes you "smarter
Women's Political Leadership and Adult Health
This study examined the role of women's political leadership at the community level in China, a context that has experienced recent political and socioeconomic change and has a distinctive rural-urban divide. Drawing on longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Studies (N range = 40,918-52,406 person-year observations), we found that female community directors outnumbered male directors in urban China but were much less common in rural areas.…
Grandparenting and Cognitive Functioning in China
Supplemental Material for Does Hoodwinking Others Pay? The Psychological and Relational Consequences of Undetected Negotiator Deception
Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China
This study examined the cross-sectional associations between intergenerational caregiving and health risks among sandwiched Chinese grandparents who provide care to grandchildren, great-grandparents, or both. Drawing on biomarker data from the 2011 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (N range = 2,189-3,035), we measured age-related biological health risks of hypertension, diabetes, inflammation, and allostatic load. We foun…
Son preference and Chinese women's biological health risk in middle and older age
Son preference is a severe form of gender discrimination and can impair women's health. Drawing on retrospective data from a nationally representative sample, this life course study examines how experience of guardians’ son preference in childhood is associated with Chinese women's health in middle and older age. Using imbalanced sex ratio at birth at the prefecture level as a proxy, this study also examines the health implications of adulthood e…
Intergenerational caregiving among “sandwich grandparents” in China
“Sandwich grandparents” are middle-aged and older adults who have both living parents (or parents-in-law) and young grandchildren. They are faced with competing demands for caregiving from multiple generations. This study examines the prevalence, trends, and patterns of caregiving by sandwich grandparents in China. Drawing on nationally representative longitudinal data, this study estimates that more than 150 million Chinese adults aged 45 and ol…
Tackling Traditional
Modernization theory posited gender ideology as a unidimensional continuum from “traditional” to egalitarian, with societies becoming more egalitarian as they progress. Recent research replaces this unidimensional view with multidimensionality, but other remnants of modernization theory remain. We tackle such remnants by examining gender ideologies and their socioeconomic correlates in Tamil Nadu, an Indian state often labeled “traditional.” Usin…
The Mortality Risk of Raising Grandchildren in the United States
In the United States, grandparents who live with and provide primary care to their grandchildren have emerged as a particularly vulnerable group since the 1990s. Using confidential data from the U.S. Census Bureau and Social Security Administration, this study linked individuals ages 50 years or older from the 2000 census long-form sample to their death records from 2000 to 2019 (weighted N = 64,027,000) and examined the longitudinal association …
Impact of straw burning on air quality in China
The open-air burning of straw has been one of the major sources of air pollution in China. Accurately detecting and measuring the scope and extent of straw-burning activities is crucial for effective environmental policies. However, the wide-spread practice by numerous small-scale rural units across rural China makes this a challenging undertaking. Our study contributes to this stream of research by leveraging mid-resolution Landsat-8 OLI sensor …
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