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Working Paper
Ahearn, Caitlin, Jennie Brand, and Xiang Zhou. Working Paper. “How, and for Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?”.
Cheng, Siwei, Jennie Brand, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie, and Michael Hout. Working Paper. “Heterogeneous Returns to College over the Life Course”.
Zhou, Xiang, and Teppei Yamamoto. Working Paper. “Tracing Causal Paths from Experimental and Observational Data”. zhou-yamamoto_paths.pdf
Forthcoming
Zhou, Xiang, and Geoffrey T. Wodtke. Forthcoming. “Residual Balancing: A Method of Constructing Weights for Marginal Structural Models”. Political Analysis. Publisher's Version zhou-wodtke_rbw.pdf
Zhou, Xiang, and Yu Xie. Forthcoming. “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in the Presence of Self-Selection: A Propensity Score Perspective”. Sociological Methodology. Publisher's Version zhou-xie2019_hte.pdf
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-Zhou_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 183 (1):311-332. Publisher's Version wodtke-alaca-zhou_rwr.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 zhou2019_college_replication.zip
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
2015
Xie, Yu, Siwei Cheng, and Xiang Zhou. 2015. “Assortative Mating without Assortative Preference”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (19):5974-5978. Publisher's Version xie-cheng-zhou2015.pdf
Zhou, Xiang. 2015. “Shrinkage Estimation of Log Odds Ratios for Comparing Mobility Tables.”. Sociological Methodology 45 (1):320-356. Publisher's Version zhou2015.pdf shrinkage.zip
2014
Xie, Yu, and Xiang Zhou. 2014. “Income Inequality in Today’s China”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (19):6928-6933. Publisher's Version xie-zhou2014.pdf
Zhang, Chunni, Qi Xu, Xiang Zhou, Xiaobo Zhang, and Yu Xie. 2014. “Are Poverty Rates Underestimated in China? New Evidence from Four Recent Surveys”. China Economic Review 31:410-425. Publisher's Version zhang_et_al.2014.pdf
Zhou, Xiang. 2014. “Increasing Returns to Education, Changing Labor Force Structure, and the Riseof Earnings Inequality in Urban China, 1996-2010”. Social Forces 93 (2):429-455. Publisher's Version zhou2014.pdf

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