Peer Reviewed Publications

In English

Wang, Jia. Forthcoming. "Mothers’ Nonstandard Work Schedules and Children’s Behavior Problems: Divergent Patterns by Maternal Education." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Furuya, Shiro and Jia Wang. 2023. “The Long Shadow: Early-Life Adversity and Later-Life Loneliness in the United States.” The Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 78(2): 370-382.

Wang, Jia and Theodore P. Gerber. 2022. "The Variable Disadvantage of Nonstandard Employment for Entering Homeownership in Russia and Urban China: The Potential Role of Mortgage Prevalence." Social Forces, Online first.

Gerber, Theodore P., Jane R. Zavisca, and Jia Wang. 2022. “Market and Non-market Pathways to Homeownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries.” American Journal of Sociology 128(3): 866-913.

Wang, Jia and Jordan Conwell. 2022. “Higher Education and Health at Midlife: Evaluating the Role of College Quality.” SSM-Population Health 19: 101228.

Raymo, James M. and Jia Wang. 2022. "Loneliness at Older Ages in the U.S.: Lonely Life Expectancy and the Role of Loneliness in Health Disparities." Demography 59(3): 921-947.

He, Jingying and Jia Wang. 2021. “When Does It Matter? The Effect of Three-generational Household Arrangement on Children’s Well-Being across Developmental Stages.” Child Indicators Research 14: 2471–2493.

Wang, Jia and Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong. 2021. "Gender-Oriented Statistical Discrimination: Aggregate Fertility, Economic Sector, and Earnings among Young Chinese Workers.'' Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 74: 100622.

Wang, Jia and James M. Raymo. 2021. "Nonstandard Employment, Gender, and Subjective Well-Being in Japan." Journal of Marriage and Family 83(3): 845-864.

Wang, Jia and James M. Raymo. 2020. "Household Income and Child Well-Being in Japan: The Role of Grandparental Coresidence and Residential Proximity." Chinese Journal of Sociology 6(2): 286-314.

Cai, Shu and Jia Wang*.  2018. "Less Advantaged, More Optimistic? Subjective Well-Being among Rural, Migrant and Urban Populations in Contemporary China." China Economic Review 52: 95-110. (authors listed alphabetically, * indicates corresponding author)

Wang, Jia. 2017. "Rural-to-Urban Migration and Rising Evaluation Standards for Subjective Social Status in Contemporary China." Social Indicators Research 134(3): 1113-1134.

Song, Yunya, Xin-Yu Dai and Jia Wang. 2016. "Not All Emotions Are Created Equal: Expressive Behavior of the Networked Public on China's Social Media Site." Computers in Human Behavior 60: 525-533.

Wang, Jia and Yu Xie. 2015. "Feeling Good About the Iron Rice Bowl: Economic Sector and Happiness in Post-Reform Urban China." Social Science Research 53: 203-217.

In Chinese

Wang, Jia. 2010. “Multiple Determinants of Subjective Life Quality of Residents in Economically Developed Regions: Evidence from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou (经 济发达地区居民主观生活质量的多重影响因素 ).”  Journal of South China University of Technology (Social Science Edition)《华南理工大学报 《华南理工大学报 (社会科学 版)》12(5): 53-58.

Wang, Jia and Jian-Ping Situ. 2010. “Religious Faiths and Interpersonal Trust in Contemporary China (当代中国社会的宗教信仰和人际任 ).” The Religious Cultures in the World《世界宗教文化》4: 78-85.

Other Publications

Book chapters/Reports

Cai, Shu and Jia Wang (equal authorship). 2020. "Urbanization and Subjective Well-Being in China: Differences between Urban, Migrant, and Rural Populations." In China Happiness Report 2020, Edited by Shun Wang.

Raymo, James M. and Jia Wang. 2021. “Educational Differences in the Economic Well-Being of Divorced Mothers in Japan.” Chapter 2 in JILPT Report No.208 (pages 21-43), The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (In Japanese).

Translations (English to Chinese)

Rives, Norfleet W. and Jr., William J. Serow. 1984. Introduction to Applied Demography: Data Sources and Estimation Techniques. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.《应用人口学概论: 数据来源与估计技术》, 格致出版社。

Van Schuur, Wijbrandt H. 2011. Ordinal Item Response Theory: Mokken Scale Analysis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications. 《定序题项应答理论: 莫坎量表分析》, 格致出版社。