Mate selection among online daters in Shanghai: Why does education matter? [0.03%]
上海线上 dating 中的择偶模式：为何教育程度重要？
Siqi Xiao,Yue Qian
Siqi Xiao
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 quanti...
Cumulative adversity, childhood behavioral problems, and educational mobility in China's poorest rural communities [0.03%]
逆境累积、儿童行为问题与中国最贫困地区中的教育流动性和社会经济地位获得能力之间的关系
Wensong Shen,Li-Chung Hu,Emily Hannum
Wensong Shen
Behavioral problems are recognized as playing a potentially important role in educational attainment, but their function in contexts of extreme poverty is not well understood. In such settings, other factors might swamp any effects of child...
Yongai Jin,Yu Xie
Yongai Jin
Using data from a nationwide household survey-the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS)-we study how social determinants-political and market factors-are associated with wealth and income among urban households in China. Results indicate that b...
Buying out of Familial Obligation: The Tradeoff between Financially Supporting versus Living with Elderly Parents in Urban China [0.03%]
以购代养：城市中国家庭老年人经济供养与同住的替代关系分析
Haiyan Zhu,Yu Xie
Haiyan Zhu
For Chinese families, coresidence with elderly parents is both a form of support and a moderator of financial support. Previous literature on intergenerational support in Chinese societies has studied either coresidence or financial support...
Yu Xie
Yu Xie
Drawing on past research, including my own, I set forth the following propositions: (1) inequality in China has been generated and maintained by structural collective mechanisms, such as regions and work units; (2) traditional Chinese polit...
Ethnic enclaves revisited: Effects on earnings of migrant workers in China [0.03%]
论民族聚居区：对中国农民工收入的影响
Chunni Zhang,Yu Xie
Chunni Zhang
Among rural-to-urban migrants, migrant workers from the same origins tend to concentrate in the same workplaces. When this concentration in a workplace is sufficiently dense, we may consider it a native-place enclave. According to a large l...
Yu Xie,Ping Lu
Yu Xie
The China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) is an on-going, nearly nationwide, comprehensive, longitudinal social survey that is intended to serve research needs on a large variety of social phenomena in contemporary China. In this paper, we desc...
Evaluating the measurement reliabilities and dimensionality of developmental idealism measures [0.03%]
测量开发理想主义措施的可靠性和维度性评估
Arland Thornton,Georgina Binstock,Linda Young-DeMarco et al.
Arland Thornton et al.
This paper investigates the measurement of developmental idealism. Developmental idealism is a set of beliefs and values stating that modern societies and families are better than traditional ones, that modern families facilitate modern soc...
Arland Thornton,Yu Xie
Arland Thornton
This paper examines the intersection of developmental idealism with China. It discusses how developmental idealism has been widely disseminated within China and has had enormous effects on public policy and programs, on social institutions,...
Developmental Idealism, Body Weight and Shape, and Marriage Entry in Transitional China [0.03%]
发展性理想主义、体型与中国的婚姻模式转变
Hongwei Xu
Hongwei Xu
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 cu...