Research

Working Paper
Opacic, Aleksei, Lai Wei, and Xiang Zhou. Working Paper. “Disparity Analysis: A Tale of Two Approaches”. opacic-wei-zhou_disparity.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Aleksei Opacic. Working Paper. “Marginal Interventional Effects”. zhou-opacic_mie.pdf
Forthcoming
Stoetzer, Lukas, Xiang Zhou, and ‪Marco Steenbergen. Forthcoming. “Causal Inference with Latent Outcomes”. American Journal of Political Science. stoetzer-zhou-steenbergen_latent.pdf
2023
Brand, Jennie, Xiang Zhou, and Yu Xie. 2023. “Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning”. Annual Review of Sociology 49:81-110. brand-zhou-xie2023_causal.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Guanghui Pan. 2023. “Higher Education and the Black-White Earnings Gap”. American Sociological Review 88 (1):154-188. Publisher's Version zhou-pan_gap.pdf
Ahearn, Caitlin, Jennie Brand, and Xiang Zhou. 2023. “How, and for Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?”. Research in Higher Education 64:574-597. Publisher's Version ahearn-brand-zhou2022.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Teppei Yamamoto. 2023. “Tracing Causal Paths from Experimental and Observational Data”. Journal of Politics 85 (1):250-265. Publisher's Version zhou-yamamoto_paths.pdf
2022
Baum, Derick, and Xiang Zhou. 2022. “rbw: An R package for Constructing Residual Balancing Weights”. The R Journal 14 (3):174-192. baum-zhou2022.pdf
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. “Attendance, Completion, and Heterogeneous Returns to College: A Causal Mediation Approach”. Sociological Methods & Research. Publisher's Version zhou_college.pdf
Zhou, Xiang. 2022. “Semiparametric Estimation for Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Causally Ordered Mediators”. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology) 84 (3):794-821. 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

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