Family & Work Inequality/Change

Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2023). Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world. Nature Human Behaviour. [Companion research briefing: Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2023). How do mothers matter for intergenerational mobility globally? Nature Human Behaviour.] [Full Text]

Hu, Y. & Coulter, R. (2023). (Un)making occupational gender segregation: Intergenerational reproduction of gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations in China. Gender, Work & Organization.[Open access]

Hu, Y. & Denier, N. (2023). Sexual orientation identity mobility in the United Kingdom: A research note. Demography. [Open access]

Abouelenin, M. & Hu, Y. (2023). Maternal employment shapes daughters’ employment stability in Egypt: Evidence for the intergenerational transmission of labor force attachment. Sex Roles. [Open access] 

Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Broadhurst, K., Bedston, S., Clifton, J., Hu, Y., & Brandon, M. (2023). ‘When they were taken it is like grieving’: Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers. Child and Family Social Work. [Open access]

Hu, Y., Xu, C. & Tu, M. (2022). Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese Sociological Review, 54(1): 1–27. [PDF]

Nehring, D. & Hu, Y.* (2021). From public to commercial service: State-market hybridisation in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–2021. British Journal of Sociology, 72(5): 1325–46. [PDF]

Nehring, D. & Hu, Y. (2021, equal authorship). COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism. Sociology. [Open access]

Hu, Y. (2021). Divergent gender revolutions: Cohort changes in household financial management across income gradients. Gender & Society. [Open access]

Li, X., Hu, Y., Huang, C-Y., & Chuang, S. (2021). Beyond WEIRD-centric theories and perspectives: Masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies. Journal of Family Theory & Review. [PDF]

Chuang, S. S., Li, X., Huang, C., Hu, Y. (2021). Critically assessing the methodological challenges of exploring Chinese immigrant fathers. In: Asian families in Canada and the United States. NY: Springer. [book chapter]

Philip, G., Bedston, S., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Broadhurst, K., Brandon, M. & Hu, Y. (2021). 'Up Against It': Understanding Fathers’ Repeat Appearance in Local Authority Care Proceeding. [Briefing Report][Full Report]

Hu, Y. (2021). How does age shape social interactions? Interviewer-age effects, normative age distance, and gender attitudes. European Sociological Review. [PDF] [Supplemental Results] 

Shen, Y. & Hu, Y.* (2021). Emotional labour in a translocal context: rural migrant workers in China’s service sector. Social & Cultural Geography. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. (2020). Marital disruption, remarriage and child well-being in China. Journal of Family Issues. [Open access] 

Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Bedston, S., Broadhurst, K., Hu, Y., Clifton. J., & Brandon, M. (2020). “I had no hope, I had no help at all”: Insights from a first study of fathers and recurrent care proceedings. Societies. 10(4): 1–16. [Open access] 

Hu, Y. (2019). What about money? Earnings, household financial organization, and housework. Journal of Marriage and Family. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. & Qian, Y. (2019, equal authorship). Educational and age assortative mating in China—The importance of marriage order. Demographic Research. [Open access] 

• An earlier version of this article was published in the Princeton Research Network on Contemporary China Working Paper Series.

Bedston, S., Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Clifton. J., Broadhurst, K., Brandon, M. & Hu, Y.* (2019). Linked lives: gender, family relations and recurrent care proceedings in England. Children and Youth Services Review. [Open access] 

Wang, S. & Hu, Y. (2019). Migration and health in China: Linking sending and host Societies. Population, Space and Place. [PDF] 

Zhao, M. & Hu, Y. (2019). Migration premium? The economic returns to youth inter-province migration in post-reform China. Journal of Youth Studies. [PDF]

Bedston, S., Hu, Y., Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Brandon, M., Broadhurst, M., & Clifton, J. (2018). Understanding recurrent care proceedings: Competing risks of how mothers and fathers enter subsequent care proceedings in England. International Journal of Population Data Science. [open access]

Hu, Y. (2018). Patriarchal hierarchy? Gender, children’s housework time and family structure in post-reform China. Chinese Sociological Review. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. & Yucel, D. (2018). What fairness? Gendered division of housework and family life satisfaction across 30 countries. European Sociological Review. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. & Shi, X. (2018). The impact of China’s one-child policy on intergenerational and gender relations. Contemporary Social Science (Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences). [PDF] 

Hu, Y. & To, S. (2018). Family relations and remarriage post-divorce and post-widowhood in China. Journal of Family Issues. [PDF] 

Philip, G., Bedston, S., Hu, Y., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Brandon, M., & Broadhurst, K. (2018). Building a Picture of Fathers in Family Justice in England. Funder: Nuffield Foundation. [project report] 

Hu, Y. (2018). Migratory Struggles and the Intersection between Gender, Class and Place in China. Nan Nü (Brill). 20(2): 353–359. [book review]

Cebolla-Boado, H., Hu, Y. & Soysal, Y. (2018, alphabetic author order). Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities. British Journal of Sociology of Education. [PDF]

Hu, Y. & Coulter, R. (2017). Living space and psychological well-being in urban China: Differentiated relationships across socio-economic gradients. Environment and Planning A. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. (2017). Attitudes toward Transnational Intermarriage in China: Testing Three Theories of Transnationalization. Demographic Research. [Open access] 

Coulter, R. & Hu, Y. (2017). Living apart together and cohabitation intentions in Great Britain. Journal of Family Issues. [PDF] 

• Abstract published in the supplement of Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 6 (3).

Hu, Y. (2016). Chinese-British Intermarriage—Disentangling Gender and Ethnicity. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. XIII + 267. [monograph]

• Nominee for 2017 British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

• Book review published in The Sociological Review

Hu, Y. (2016). Marriage of matching doors: Marital sorting on parental background in China. Demographic Research. [Open access] 

Hu, Y. (2016). Impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China. Asian Population Studies. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. (2016). Sex ideologies in China: Examining interprovince differences. Journal of Sex Research. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. & Scott, J. (2016). Family and gender values in China: Generational, geographic and gender differences. Journal of Family Issues. [PDF] 

Hu, Y. (2015). Gender and children’s housework time in China: Examining behavior modeling in context. Journal of Marriage and Family. [PDF]