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 My major publications, aside from a few side projects, cohere around two broad themes.

Theme 1. Education and Mental Health Across the Life Course

• “The Reciprocal Relations between Externalizing Problems and Educational Achievement and Their Long-term Implications for     Educational Attainment: Evidence from a 15-Year Study in China.”

​                 2025. Children and Youth Services Review 176:108373.
​                 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108373 

•  “Bullying Victimization and Its Life-course Shadows: Evidence from China.” ​ 

                 (With Ruolin Su)
                 2024. Chinese Sociological Review 56(5): 586-615.
                 DOI:10.1080/21620555.2023.2292538

•  “Context-Relevant Risk and Protective Factors for Children in Rural Communities: Long-term Implications for Adulthood Educational and      Mental Health Outcomes.”  ​

                 (With Emily Hannum)
​                 2023. Journal of Community Psychology 51(2): 724-744. 
                 DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22909

• “A Tale of Two Genders: Demystifying Girls' Concurrence of Higher Educational Achievement and Higher Depression Levels.” 

​                 2022. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 81:100725. 
                 DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100725

•  “A Tangled Web: The Reciprocal Relationship between Depression and Educational Outcomes in China.” 

                 2020. Social Science Research 85: 102353. 
                 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102353

• “Cumulative Adversity, Childhood Behavioral Problems, and Educational Mobility in China’s Poorest Rural Communities.”

                (With Li-Chung Hu and Emily Hannum)
                  2017. Chinese Journal of Sociology 3(4): 491-517.
                  DOI: 10.1177/2057150X17736664

Theme 2. Family and the Production of Inequality 

•  “Educational Access, Quality, and Inequality in China: Recent Policies, Priorities, and Progress.” [Book Chapter]

                 (With Marco M. Laghi and Emily Hannum)
                 2025. In Handbook on Inequality in China,  Edward Elgar Publishing. 
                 DOI: 10.4337/9781035317806.00010

• “Catching Up Yet Still Falling Behind: Sources, Heterogeneity, and Implications of the Modest Female Educational Disadvantage in Rural   China”  ​

                 2025. Rural Sociology. 
                 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70011

• “Adaptive Educational Expectations: How Do Parents Respond to Child Academic Performance in Various Contexts?”  ​

                (With Emily Hannum and Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng)
                 2025. Social Science Research. 
                 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103097

•  “Education and Inequality in China.” [Book Chapter]

                 (With Emily Hannum)
                 2024. In The Sage Handbook on the Sociology of Education,  Sage. 
                 DOI: 10.4135/9781529783506.n7 

• “Effect Pathways of Informal Family Separation on Children’s Outcomes: Paternal Labor Migration and Long-term Educational Attainment 

                  of Left-behind Children in Rural China”.
​                  (With Li-Chung Hu and Emily Hannum)
​                 2021. Social Science Research 97: 102576. 
                 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102576
                             ·      Nominee of the 2022 Rosabeth Moss Kanter International Award for Research  Excellence in Work and Family

•  “Credit Limits as an Element of Family Socioeconomic Status: An Application to the Case of Children's Educational Outcomes in Rural

                 Gansu Province.” [Book Chapter]
​                 (With Emily Hannum)
                 2020. In Rural Education in China's Social Transition, Routledge. 
                 DOI:10.4324/9781315545868-3


 I have also edited one volume on family and education.   

• “Family and Education across Social Contexts in China”. 

                2023. Chinese Education & Society 56(2):99–101.
                DOI: 10.1080/10611932.2023.2251832​

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