Publications

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Journal articles

Hu, Y., Siebert, A., Freeman, C.B., Boakye, L., Ceccato F., Galindo, A., & Woo, K. (in press). Global classrooms: Rethinking global sociology education. Teaching Sociology.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (in press). Work, masculinity, and femininity: New evidence across 31 countries. Gender & Society.
Qian, Y., & Hu, Y. (2026, joint first author). Living-apart marriage in China: Trends, educational gradient, and well-being implications. Demographic Research.
Nehring, D., & Hu, Y. (2026). Fragile transnationalism: Rethinking migrant transnationalism for a post-neoliberal world. International Migration Review.
Qian, Y., & Hu, Y. (2026). 突破婚姻中心主义: 非婚姻关系的国际趋势及其对中国的启示 [Beyond a Marriage-Centered Framework: Non-Marital Relationships in International Contexts and Their Implications for China]. 人口研究 [Population Research].
Hu, Y. (2026). Manufacturing care: What can we learn about care from AI? Community, Work & Family.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2026, joint first author). Empowerment and individualization: Online banking and household financial organization. European Sociological Review.
Tarafdar, M., Rets, I., & Hu, Y. (2026). Catch me if you can: The dynamic nature of bias in machine learning applications. Information Systems Journal.
Fasang, A. E., Cabib, I., Cooper, A., Gruijters, R. J., & Hu, Y. (2026). Young adult life courses in the Global South: A comparative framework and research agenda. Advances in Life Course Research.
Yu, J., Qian, Y., Hu, Y., Yang, Z., & Xie, Y. (2026, equal contribution, first three authors). What makes a desirable spouse in China? New evidence from a national survey experiment. Journal of Marriage and Family.
Hughes, K. D., Konnikov, A., Denier, N., & Hu, Y. (2026). Problematizing the role of artificial intelligence in hiring and organizational inequalities: A multidisciplinary review. Human Relations.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2026). Who is concerned about digitalization? The role of digital literacy and exposure across 30 countries. Information, Communication & Society.
Sarma, K., & Hu, Y. (2025, equal contribution). The mundane and the extreme: Women's experiences of housework and marital violence in India. Gender & Society.
Abouelenin, M., & Hu, Y. (2025). Rushed into adulthood: Child marriage and women's work-family life courses in Egypt. Advances in Life Course Research.
Cai, M., Qian, Y., & Hu, Y. (2025). The efficiency paradox: A temporal lens into online dating among Chinese immigrants in Canada. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Wang, S., & Hu, Y. (2025). Whose gender ideology matters? A dyadic analysis of gender ideology and housework time in the United Kingdom. European Societies.
Qian, Y., & Hu, Y. (2025, joint first author). Straight jacket: The implications of multidimensional sexuality for relationship quality and stability. Sociological Science.
Hu, Y., & Coulter, R. (2025, joint first author). Living apart together and older adults' mental health in the United Kingdom. Journals of Gerontology Series B.
Qian, Y., & Hu, Y. (2025). How couples meet and assortative mating in Canada. Journal of Marriage and Family.
Hu, Y., Denier, N., Ding, L., Tarafdar, M., Konnikov, A., Hughes, K. D., Hu, S., et al. (2024). Language in job advertisements and the reproduction of labor force gender and racial segregation. PNAS Nexus.
Ding, L., Hu, Y., Denier, N., Shi, E., Zhang, J., Hu, Q., Hughes, K. D., Kong, L., et al. (2024). Probing social bias in labor market text generation by ChatGPT: A masked language model approach. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024).
Mak, H. W., Hu, Y., Bu, F., Bone, J. K., & Fancourt, D. (2024). Art for health's sake or health for art's sake: Disentangling the bidirectional relationships between arts engagement and mental health. PNAS Nexus.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2024). Gendering digital labor: Work and family digital communication across 29 countries. Community, Work & Family.
Qian, Y., & Hu, Y. (2024). The digitalization of family life: A multilevel conceptual framework. Journal of Marriage and Family.
Abouelenin, M., & Hu, Y. (2024). Food insecurity and affective well-being during COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa. Journal of Affective Disorders.
Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Broadhurst, K., Clifton, J., Bedston, S., Hu, Y., et al. (2024). "When they were taken it is like grieving": Understanding and responding to the emotional impact of repeat care proceedings on fathers. Child & Family Social Work.
Hu, Y., & Coulter, R. (2024). (Un)making occupational gender segregation: Intergenerational reproduction of gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations in China. Gender, Work and Organization.
Phraknoi, N., Sutanto, J., Hu, Y., Goh, Y. S., & Lee, C. E. C. (2023). Older people's needs in urban disaster response: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.
Tarafdar, M., Rets, I., & Hu, Y. (2023). Can ICT enhance workplace inclusion? ICT-enabled workplace inclusion practices and a new agenda for inclusion research in Information Systems. Journal of Strategic Information Systems. [JSIS 2023 Best Paper Award]
Hu, Y., & Denier, N. (2023). Sexual orientation identity mobility in the United Kingdom: A research note. Demography.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2023). How do mothers matter for intergenerational mobility globally? Nature Human Behaviour.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2023). Gender, education expansion and intergenerational educational mobility around the world. Nature Human Behaviour.
Abouelenin, M., & Hu, Y. (2023). Maternal employment shapes daughters' employment stability in Egypt: Evidence for the intergenerational transmission of labor force attachment. Sex Roles.
Shen, Y., & Hu, Y. (2022). Emotional labour in a translocal context: Rural migrant workers in China's service sector. Social & Cultural Geography.
Hu, S., Al-Ani, J. A., Hughes, K. D., Denier, N., Konnikov, A., Ding, L., Xie, J., Hu, Y., et al. (2022). Balancing gender bias in job advertisements with text-level bias mitigation. Frontiers in Big Data.
Nehring, D., & Hu, Y. (2022, joint first author). COVID-19, nation-states and fragile transnationalism. Sociology.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2022). Protecting older adults' mental health in the pandemic. BMJ.
Hu, Y., Xu, C. L., & Tu, M. (2022). Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinese Sociological Review.
Nehring, D., & Hu, Y. (2021). From public to commercial service: State-market hybridization in the UK visa and immigration permit infrastructure, 1997–2021. The British Journal of Sociology.
Hu, Y. (2021). Divergent gender revolutions: Cohort changes in household financial management across income gradients. Gender & Society.
Hu, Y. (2021). How does age shape social interactions? Interviewer-age effects, normative age distance, and gender attitudes. European Sociological Review.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2021, joint first author). COVID-19, inter-household contact and mental well-being among older adults in the US and the UK. Frontiers in Sociology.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2021). COVID-19 and adolescent mental health in the United Kingdom. Journal of Adolescent Health.
Qian, Y., & Hu, Y. (2021, joint first author). Couples' changing work patterns in the United Kingdom and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gender, Work & Organization.
Li, X., Hu, Y., Huang, C. Y., & Chuang, S. S. (2021). Beyond W.E.I.R.D. (Western, educated, industrial, rich, democratic)-centric theories and perspectives: Masculinity and fathering in Chinese societies. Journal of Family Theory & Review.
Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Bedston, S., Broadhurst, K., Hu, Y., Clifton, J., et al. (2020). "I had no hope, I had no help at all": Insights from a first study of fathers and recurrent care proceedings. Societies.
Hu, Y. (2020). Intersecting ethnic and native–migrant inequalities in the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Hu, Y. (2020). Marital disruption, remarriage and child well-being in China. Journal of Family Issues.
Hu, Y., & Shi, X. (2020). The impact of China's one-child policy on intergenerational and gender relations. Contemporary Social Science.
Zhao, M., & Hu, Y. (2019). Migration premium? The economic returns to youth inter-province migration in post-reform China. Journal of Youth Studies.
Bedston, S., Philip, G., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Broadhurst, K., Brandon, M., et al. (2019). Linked lives: Gender, family relations and recurrent care proceedings in England. Children and Youth Services Review.
Hu, Y. (2019). What about money? Earnings, household financial organization, and housework. Journal of Marriage and Family.
Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2019, joint first author). Educational and age assortative mating in China: The importance of marriage order. Demographic Research.
Wang, S., & Hu, Y. (2019). Migration and health in China: Linking sending and host societies. Population, Space and Place.
Cebolla-Boado, H., Hu, Y., & Soysal, Y. N. (2018, alphabetical authorship order). Why study abroad? Sorting of Chinese students across British universities. British Journal of Sociology of Education.
Hu, Y. (2018). Patriarchal hierarchy? Gender, children's housework time and family structure in post-reform China. Chinese Sociological Review.
Hu, Y., & Yucel, D. (2018). What fairness? Gendered division of housework and family life satisfaction across 30 countries. European Sociological Review.
Hu, Y., & To, S. (2018). Family relations and remarriage post-divorce and post-widowhood in China. Journal of Family Issues.
Coulter, R., & Hu, Y. (2017). Living apart together and cohabitation intentions in Great Britain. Journal of Family Issues.
Hu, Y. (2017). Attitudes toward transnational intermarriage in China: Testing three theories of transnationalization. Demographic Research.
Hu, Y., & Coulter, R. (2017). Living space and psychological well-being in urban China: Differentiated relationships across socio-economic gradients. Environment and Planning A.
Hu, Y. (2016). Sex ideologies in China: Examining interprovince differences. The Journal of Sex Research.
Hu, Y. (2016). Marriage of matching doors: Marital sorting on parental background in China. Demographic Research.
Hu, Y. (2016). Impact of rural-to-urban migration on family and gender values in China. Asian Population Studies.
Hu, Y., & Scott, J. (2016). Family and gender values in China: Generational, geographic, and gender differences. Journal of Family Issues.
Hu, Y. (2015). Gender and children's housework time in China: Examining behavior modeling in context. Journal of Marriage and Family.

Book

Hu, Y. (2016). Chinese-British intermarriage: Disentangling gender and ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan.

Book chapters

Hu, Y. (in press). Older adults' digital intergenerational contact: Patterns, predictors, and associations with subjective well-being across 29 countries. In Y. Li (ed.), Social Capital in a Turbulent World. Edward Elgar.
Hu, Y., Xu, C. L., & Tu, M. (2026). Family-mediated migration infrastructure: Chinese international students and parents navigating (im)mobilities. In C. Wu & Y. Zhai (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Routledge.
Cabalquinto, E., & Hu, Y. (2023). The transnationalisation of intimacy: Family relations and changes in an age of global mobility and digital media. In J. Waters & B. Yeoh (Eds.), Handbook on migration and the family. Edward Elgar.
Konnikov, A., Rets, I., Hughes, K. D., Al-Ani, J. A., Denier, N., Ding, L., Hu, S., Hu, Y., et al. (2022). Responsible AI for labour market equality (BIAS). In L. Hantrais (Ed.), How to manage international multidisciplinary research projects. Edward Elgar.
Chuang, S. S., Li, X., Huang, C. Y., & Hu, Y. (2021). Critically assessing the methodological challenges of exploring Chinese immigrant fathers. In Asian families in Canada and the United States: Implications for mental health and well-being. Springer.

Reports, conference papers and other outputs

Ollier-Malaterre, A., Desjardins, C., Hu, Y., Kossek, E. E., Chung, H., Jaga, A., et al. (2026). Family digital labor across contexts: Building theory from experiences. Academy of Management Proceedings.
Galindo, A., Hu, Y., Siebert, A., Freeman, B., Boakye, L., Ceccato, F., & Woo, K. (2025). Global classrooms: Enhancing global competence and community building through collaborative transnational education [Conference paper]. Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2025: Future-Focused Education.
Denier, N., Deutsch, R., Hu, Y., & Qian, Y. (2024). Considering families in Canada's digital transformation [Issue brief]. The Vanier Institute of the Family.
Hu, Y., Siebert, A., Boakye, L., & Freeman, B. (2024). Global classrooms: Rethinking and remaking global sociology education [Conference paper]. LUEDConf: Lancaster University Education Conference.
Tarafdar, M., Rets, I., & Hu, Y. (2022). Can ICT enhance workplace inclusion? The role of ICT-enabled inclusion practices [Conference paper]. European Conference on Information Systems. [ECIS Best WiP Paper Runner-up]
Hu, Y., Tarafdar, M., Alshehabi Al-Ani, J., Rets, I., Hu, S., Denier, N., Hughes, K. D., et al. (2022). Gendered STEM workforce in the United Kingdom: The role of gender bias in job advertising [Written evidence]. UK Parliament, House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
Konnikov, A., Denier, N., Hu, Y., Hughes, K. D., Alshehabi Al-Ani, J., Ding, L., et al. (2022). BIAS Word inventory for work and employment diversity, (in)equality and inclusivity (Version 2.0) [Toolkit]. OSF.
Philip, G., Bedston, S., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Broadhurst, K., Brandon, M., et al. (2021). 'Up against it': Understanding fathers' repeat appearance in local authority care proceedings (full project report) [Project report]. Nuffield Foundation.
Chen, L., Büscher, M., & Hu, Y. (2020). Crowding out the crowd: The transformation of network disaster communication patterns on Weibo. In Proceedings of the 17th ISCRAM Conference.
Hu, Y. (2019). [Review of the books Masculine compromise: Migration, family, and gender in China, by S. Y. P. Choi & Y. Peng, and Rural origins, city lives: Class and place in contemporary China, by R. Zavoretti]. Nan Nü.
Chen, L., Buscher, M., & Hu, Y. (2019). On liquid ground: Contesting facts and responsibilities on Weibo during the Shouguang flood. In Proceedings of the 16th ISCRAM Conference.
Philip, G., Bedston, S., Hu, Y., Youansamouth, L., Clifton, J., Brandon, M., et al. (2018). Building a picture of fathers in the Family Justice System in England [Project briefing report]. Nuffield Foundation.