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Yu Xie

Researcher at Princeton University

Publications -  197
Citations -  15556

Yu Xie is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Population. The author has an hindex of 52, co-authored 180 publications receiving 12934 citations. Previous affiliations of Yu Xie include University of Michigan & University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Influences of Material Aspirations on Migration

TL;DR: Empirical analyses provide strong evidence that material aspirations have large effects on overall rates of migration and affect destination-specific migration rates, particularly for relatively wealthy Western and Asian destinations.

A Preference-Opportunity-Choice Framework with Applications to Intergroup

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TL;DR: A general framework for discrete choice is put forward, where choice probability is specified as proportional to the product of preference and opportunity, to implement this framework.
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Causal inference and heterogeneity bias in social science

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.
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Redefine Statistical Significance

TL;DR: The authors proposed to change the default P-value threshold for statistical significance for claims of new discoveries from 0.05 to 0.005, which is the threshold used in this paper.