Family & Work Inequality/Change

Qian, Y. & Hu, Y. (2025, in press, joint first author). Straight jacket: The implications of multidimensional sexuality for relationship quality and stability. Sociological Science.  [Open access]

Wang, S. & Hu, Y. (2025, in press). Whose gender ideology matters? A dyadic analysis of gender ideology and housework time in the United Kingdom. European Societies. [Open access]

Hu, Y. & Coulter, R. (2024, joint first author). Living apart together and older adults' mental health in the United Kingdom. Journal of Gerontology Series B: Social Sciences. [Open access]

Hu, Y. & Coulter, R. (2024). (Un)making occupational gender segregation: Intergenerational reproduction of gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations in China. Gender, Work & Organization.[Open access]

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. & 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]

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]

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

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]

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

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. & 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.

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

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

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] 

Zhao, M. & Hu, Y. (2019). Migration premium? The economic returns to youth inter-province migration in post-reform China. Journal of Youth Studies. [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. (2018). Patriarchal hierarchy? Gender, children’s housework time and family structure in post-reform China. Chinese Sociological Review. [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]

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. & 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] 

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

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

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]