Zhenchao Qian

John Brown University

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Daniel T. Lichter

Cornell University

Sharon Sassler

National Council on Family Relations

Dmitry Tumin

East Carolina University

Maureen Perry‐Jenkins

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mikaela J. Dufur

National Council on Family Relations

Benjamin R. Karney

University of California, Los Angeles

Emily Smith‐Greenaway

University of Southern California

Wen‐Jui Han

National Council on Family Relations

Paula Fomby

University of Pennsylvania

Carla A. Pfeffer

Michigan State University

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Educational Aspirations of High School Seniors

Sociological Perspectives (1999)

Zhenchao Qian Sampson Lee Blair

Using the second follow-up of the National Education Longitudinal Study, we explore how human, financial, and social capital affect educational aspirations differently across racial/ethnic groups. While individual educational performance is important for all racial/ethnic groups, human and financial capital have stronger impact on educational aspirations for whites than for minorities. Asian-American students' aspirations are affected by human capital and whether English is a native language. Parental involvement in school activities—one measure of social capital—has a strong impact on educational aspirations for African Americans and Hispanics. We then explore the causes for racial/ethnic differences in educational aspirations. When individual characteristics and human, financial, and social capital are introduced, racial/ethnic minorities have greater educational aspirations than whites. The results suggest that factors affecting educational aspirations are different across racial/ethnic groups and some of the racial/ethnic differences in educational aspirations can be accounted for by some other factors.

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10.2307/1389576

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Transitions From Sexual Relationships Into Cohabitation and Beyond

Demography (2018)

Sharon Sassler Katherine Michelmore Zhenchao Qian

Cohabitation

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Marital status

Life course approach

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10.1007/s13524-018-0649-8

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Measuring Marital Assimilation: Intermarriage among Natives and Immigrants

Social Science Research (2001)

Zhenchao Qian Daniel T. Lichter

Acculturation

Cultural assimilation

Assimilation (phonology)

Marital status

10.1006/ssre.2000.0699

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Journal of Marriage and Family (2020)

Kristi Williams Lauren Gebhardt-Kram Jake Hays Benjamin R. Karney Corinne Reczek

10.1111/jomf.12585

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Who Is White?

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (2004)

Zhenchao Qian

White (mutation)

10.1177/009430610403300233

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Further Studies of Immunoprotective Effects on L615 Leukemia with Different Immune-Deficient Mice (615nu/nu, 615bg/bg, 615nu/bg)

S. Karger AG eBooks (2015)

Zhenchao Qian Ruming Guan Wenhan Wei Sun Jin

10.1159/000417151

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Changes in American marriage, 1970--1990: Forces of attraction, assortative mating and interracial marriage

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Marriage Timing and Educational Assortative Mating

Journal of Comparative Family Studies (2010)

Kevin Shaferl Zhenchao Qian

Educational homogamy is common, but the association between marriage timing and educational assortative mating is not well understood. Following never-married men and women over time with NLSY79 panel data, we explore the relationship between marriage timing and educational assortative mating by educational attainment and gender. Our results show that educational homogamy occurs at younger ages for the less-educated and at later ages for the highly-educated. Thus, marriage market entry or age at school completion affects marriage timing. More years out of school, however, effects educational assortative mating-less-educated men and women become less likely to marry; highly-educated men are more likely to marry heterogamously; and highly-educated women are increasingly likely to remain unmarried.

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10.3138/jcfs.41.5.661

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Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects and Mate Selection

Social Forces (2005)

Zhenchao Qian Daniel T. Lichter Leanna M. Mellott

Journal Article Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects and Mate Selection Get access Zhenchao Qian, Zhenchao Qian Ohio State University Correspondence should be directed to Zhenchao Qian, Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, 190 N. Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 43210. E-mail: qian.26@osu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Daniel T. Lichter, Daniel T. Lichter Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Leanna M. Mellott Leanna M. Mellott Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 84, Issue 1, September 2005, Pages 473–491, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2005.0117 Published: 01 September 2005

10.1353/sof.2005.0117

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Estimating the Effect of Premarital Cohabitation on Timing of Marital Disruption

Sociological Methods & Research (2012)

Bo Lü Zhenchao Qian Anna Cunningham Chih-Lin Li

In this article, we extend the propensity score method by matching on multiple groups. Using data from first wave (1987–1988) and third wave (2001–2003) of National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), we match married individuals with no premarital cohabitation, single premarital cohabitation with the spouse, and serial premarital cohabitations, and apply Cox proportional hazards models to explore how premarital cohabitation history affects marital disruption. Our results indicate that both selection and causation help explain the relationship. The selection effect played a large role in 1987–88 when cohabitation was uncommon but disappeared in 2001–03 when cohabitation became prevalent. Postmatching results demonstrate that the causal effect of cohabitation on marital disruption was strong among serial cohabitors and weak among one-time cohabitors with the spouse. The imputation-based sensitivity analysis shows that our conclusion is robust even with the presence of unobserved characteristics that have a moderate association with cohabitation and marital disruption.

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10.1177/0049124112452395

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