Showing papers by "Yu Xie published in 2020"
TL;DR: It is found that intergenerational social mobility has been remarkably stable, and in contrast with relative stability in rank-based measures of mobility, absolute mobility for the nonfarm population—the fraction of offspring whose occupational ranks are higher than those of their parents—increased for birth cohorts born prior to 1900 and has fallen for those born after 1940.
Abstract: We make use of newly available data that include roughly 5 million linked household and population records from 1850 to 2015 to document long-term trends in intergenerational social mobility in the United States. Intergenerational mobility declined substantially over the past 150 y, but more slowly than previously thought. Intergenerational occupational rank-rank correlations increased from less than 0.17 to as high as 0.32, but most of this change occurred to Americans born before 1900. After controlling for the relatively high mobility of persons from farm origins, we find that intergenerational social mobility has been remarkably stable. In contrast with relative stability in rank-based measures of mobility, absolute mobility for the nonfarm population-the fraction of offspring whose occupational ranks are higher than those of their parents-increased for birth cohorts born prior to 1900 and has fallen for those born after 1940.
65 citations
TL;DR: It is found that the sharply increasing income inequality in China has contributed to life loss in China's population, about 0.6 years for men and 0.4 years for women, suggesting that redistribution of income from rich to poor may be one of the most important policy levers for improving population health in China.
32 citations
TL;DR: It has been well documented that East Asian students in primary and secondary education academically outperform their Western counterparts as mentioned in this paper, and one prominent explanation points to the role of culture....
Abstract: It has been well documented that East Asian students in primary and secondary education academically outperform their Western counterparts. One prominent explanation points to the role of culture. ...
32 citations
TL;DR: The MTE is redefined as the expected treatment effect conditional on the propensity score as well as a latent variable representing unobserved resistance to treatment, which can be used as a building block for evaluating standard causal estimands.
Abstract: An essential feature common to all empirical social research is variability across units of analysis. Individuals differ not only in background characteristics but also in how they respond to a par...
23 citations
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between family and children's educational achievement in western countries and found that the relationship was positively associated with family income and educational achievement. But very few studies have examined this question in other countries.
Abstract: Nearly all past studies on educational inequality have examined the relationship between family and children’s educational achievement in western countries. Very few have examined this question in ...
14 citations
TL;DR: It is found that the treatment effects of enrollment in the Perry preschool on cognitive and non-cognitive skills were much larger and more persistent among the most disadvantaged children than among others in thePerry program.
12 citations
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TL;DR: This paper used BERT to analyze a large corpus of 267,907 China-related articles published by The New York Times since 1970 and compared their output with a longitudinal data set constructed from 101 cross-sectional surveys of the American public's views on China.
Abstract: Do mass media influence people's opinion of other countries? Using BERT, a deep neural network-based natural language processing model, we analyze a large corpus of 267,907 China-related articles published by The New York Times since 1970. We then compare our output from The New York Times to a longitudinal data set constructed from 101 cross-sectional surveys of the American public's views on China. We find that the reporting of The New York Times on China in one year explains 54% of the variance in American public opinion on China in the next. Our result confirms hypothesized links between media and public opinion and helps shed light on how mass media can influence public opinion of foreign countries.
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08 Dec 2020
TL;DR: BERT, a deep neural network-based natural language processing model, is used to analyze a large corpus of China-related articles published by The New York Times and finds that the reporting of The NewYork Times on China in one year explains 54% of the variance in American public opinion in the next.
Abstract: Do mass media influence people's opinion of other countries? Using BERT, a deep neural network-based natural language processing model, we analyze a large corpus of 267,907 China-related articles published by The New York Times since 1970. We then compare our output from The New York Times to a longitudinal data set constructed from 101 cross-sectional surveys of the American public's views on China. We find that the reporting of The New York Times on China in one year explains 54% of the variance in American public opinion on China in the next. Our result confirms hypothesized links between media and public opinion and helps shed light on how mass media can influence public opinion of foreign countries.