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Working Paper
Baum, Derick, and Xiang Zhou. Working Paper. “rbw: An R package for Constructing Residual Balancing Weights”. baum-zhou_rbwpackage.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Guanghui Pan. Working Paper. “Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap”.
Zhou, Xiang. Working Paper. “Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College”. zhou_college.pdf
Ahearn, Caitlin, Jennie Brand, and Xiang Zhou. Working Paper. “How, and for Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?”.
Forthcoming
Zhou, Xiang, and Teppei Yamamoto. Forthcoming. “Tracing Causal Paths from Experimental and Observational Data”. Journal of Politics. zhou-yamamoto_paths.pdf
2022
Xie, Yu, Hao Dong, Xiang Zhou, and Xi Song. 2022. “Trends in Social Mobility in Post-Revolution China”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (7):e2117471119. Publisher's Version
Zhou, Xiang. 2022. “Semiparametric Estimation for Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Causally Ordered Mediators”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology). Publisher's Version zhou2022_pse.pdf
2021
Cheng, Siwei, Jennie Brand, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie, and Michael Hout. 2021. “Heterogeneous Returns to College over the Life Course”. Science Advances 51 (7):1-14. Publisher's Version
2020
Wodtke, Geoffrey T., and Xiang Zhou. 2020. “Effect Decomposition in the Presence of Treatment-induced Confounding: A Regression-with-residuals Approach”. Epidemiology 31 (3):369-375. Publisher's Version Wodtke-Zhou2020_decomp.pdf
Wodtke, Geoffrey T, Zahide Alaca, and Xiang Zhou. 2020. “Regression-with-residuals Estimation of Marginal Effects: A Method of Adjusting for Treatment-induced Confounders that may also be Effect Modifiers”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 183 (1):311-332. Publisher's Version wodtke-alaca-zhou2020_rwr.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Geoffrey T. Wodtke. 2020. “Residual Balancing: A Method of Constructing Weights for Marginal Structural Models”. Political Analysis 28 (4):487-506. Publisher's Version zhou-wodtke2020_rbw.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Yu Xie. 2020. “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Presence of Self-Selection: A Propensity Score Perspective”. Sociological Methodology 50 (1):350-385. Publisher's Version zhou-xie2020_hte.pdf
2019
Zhou, Xiang. 2019. “Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility”. American Sociological Review 84 (3):459–485. Publisher's Version zhou2019_college.pdf Zhou2019_college_sm.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Geoffrey T. Wodtke. 2019. “A Regression-with-Residuals Method for Estimating Controlled Direct Effects.”. Political Analysis 27 (3):360-369. Publisher's Version zhou-wodtke2019_cde.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Yu Xie. 2019. “Marginal Treatment Effects from a Propensity Score Perspective”. Journal of Political Economy 127 (6):3070-3084. Publisher's Version zhou-xie2019_mte.pdf
Zhou, Xiang. 2019. “Hierarchical Item Response Models for Analyzing Public Opinion”. Political Analysis 27 (4):481-502. Publisher's Version Zhou2019_hIRT.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Geoffrey T. Wodtke. 2019. “Income Stratification among Occupational Classes in the United States”. Social Forces 97 (3):945-972. Publisher's Version zhou-wodtke2019_strat.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Yu Xie. 2019. “Market Transition, Industrialization, and Social Mobility Trends in Post-Revolution China.”. American Journal of Sociology 124 (6):1810-1847. Publisher's Version zhou-xie2019_mobility.pdf
2018
Bloome, Deirdre, Shauna Dyer, and Xiang Zhou. 2018. “Educational Inequality, Educational Expansion, and Intergenerational Income Persistence in the United States.”. American Sociological Review 83 (6):1215–1253. Publisher's Version bloome-dyer-zhou2018.pdf
2016
Zhou, Xiang, and Yu Xie. 2016. “Propensity-Score-Based Methods versus MTE-Based Methods in Causal Inference: Identification, Estimation, and Application.”. Sociological Methods & Research 45 (1):3-40. Publisher's Version zhou-xie2016.pdf

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