Showing papers by "Yu Xie published in 2011"
TL;DR: The research yields minimal support for the enclave thesis, and indicates that for some immigrant groups, ethnic enclave participation actually has a negative effect on economic outcomes.
Abstract: A large literature in sociology concerns the implications of immigrants' participation in ethnic enclaves for their economic and social well-being. The "enclave thesis" speculates that immigrants benefit from working in ethnic enclaves. Previous research concerning the effects of enclave participation on immigrants' economic outcomes has come to mixed conclusions as to whether enclave effects are positive or negative. In this article, we seek to extend and improve upon past work by formulating testable hypotheses based on the enclave thesis and testing them with data from the 2003 New Immigrant Survey (NIS), employing both residence-based and workplace-based measures of the ethnic enclave. We compare the economic outcomes of immigrants working in ethnic enclaves with those of immigrants working in the mainstream economy. Our research yields minimal support for the enclave thesis. Our results further indicate that for some immigrant groups, ethnic enclave participation actually has a negative effect on economic outcomes.
177 citations
TL;DR: The findings suggest that, although economic development does not necessarily result in less traditional familial culture, personal economic resources may enable individual couples to deviate from tradition.
Abstract: Using recent survey data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) on 1,655 married persons born in 1964-1976 in southeastern China and Taiwan, we studied coresidence with elderly parents using a multinomial probit model for coresidence type and an ordered probit model for residential distance The study yielded four findings: (a) Patrilocal coresidence was more prevalent in Taiwan than in China; (b) matrilocal coresidence was more prevalent in China; (c) practical factors mattered in both places; (d) in Taiwan only, a couple's economic resources facilitated breaking away from patrilocal coresidence The findings suggest that, although economic development does not necessarily result in less traditional familial culture, personal economic resources may enable individual couples to deviate from tradition
120 citations
TL;DR: For immigrant adolescents living in non-poverty neighborhoods, assimilation is found to be positively associated with educational achievement and psychological well-being but also negatively associated with at-risk behavior, suggesting that future research would be more fruitful focusing on differential processes of assimilation rather than differential consequences.
93 citations
TL;DR: In the literature on household work, "gender display" refers to the hypothesis that in order to compensate for their deviation from gender norms women who outearn their husbands tend to do more chores as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In the literature on household work, "gender display" refers to the hypothesis that in order to compensate for their deviation from gender norms women who outearn their husbands tend to do more hou...
46 citations
TL;DR: Methodological consequences of population heterogeneity for the sequential logit model in studies of education transitions are now well understood and the researcher may explicitly introduce a form of heterogeneity into the sequentiallogit model and then evaluate the model.
38 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence pertaining to three most important social changes in China over the last 30-40 years: economic growth, increased educational attainment, and completion of a demographic transition.
Abstract: China has been undergoing a social transformation whose scope, rapidity, and significance in impact are unprecedented in human history. I present evidence pertaining to three most important social changes in China over the last 30-40 years: economic growth, increased educational attainment, and completion of a demographic transition. Many other important social changes have also taken place that merit the attention of social science researchers. Dramatic social changes in China present challenges as well as opportunities to social scientists today. We have a unique opportunity to document and preserve this portion of China's social history. Thus, conducting evidence-based research on China is a historical imperative for present-day social scientists.
27 citations
TL;DR: Heterogeneous treatment effects of higher education on earnings resulting from sorting mechanisms that select individuals with certain unobserved attributes into college education are illustrated using a newly developed instrumental-variable method in economics.
22 citations
TL;DR: This work has shown that in cases where the ignorability assumption is true, "composition bias" can occur if treatment propensity is systematically associated with heterogeneous treatment effects.
Abstract: Because of population heterogeneity, causal inference with observational data in social science may suffer from two possible sources of bias: 1 bias in unobserved pretreatment factors affecting the outcome even without treatment; and 2bias due to heterogeneity in treatment effects. Even when we control for observed covariates, these two biases may occur if the classic ignorability assumption is untrue. In cases where the ignorability assumption is true, "composition bias" can occur if treatment propensity is systematically associated with heterogeneous treatment effects.
14 citations