Dr. Yue Qian is interested in understanding how gender intersects with family and population processes, such as assortative mating (i.e., who marries whom), divisions of labor, parenthood, and migration, to shape individual well-being and societal inequality. She has conducted research in East Asian and North American contexts. 

For full publication list, please see her Google Scholar profile.

1. Variation and Trends in Assortative Mating

Tian, Felicia F., Yue Qian, and Zhenchao Qian. (2018). “Hukou Locality and Intermarriages in Two Chinese Cities: Shanghai and Shenzhen.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 56, 12-20. (The first two authors share primary authorship) 
Qian, Yue and Zhenchao Qian. (2017). “Assortative Mating by Education and Hukou in Shanghai.” Chinese Sociological Review, 49(3), 239-262.
Qian, Yue. (2017). “Gender Asymmetry in Educational and Income Assortative Marriage.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 79(2), 318-336.
Qian, Yue and Zhenchao Qian. (2014). “Gender Divide in Urban China: Singlehood and Assortative Mating by Age and Education.” Demographic Research, 31, 1337-1364.

2. Consequences of Assortative Mating

Qian, Yue. (2018). “Educational Assortative Mating and Income Dynamics in Couples: A Longitudinal and Dyadic Perspective.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(3), 607-621.
Li, Ningzi and Yue Qian. (2018). “The Impact of Educational Pairing and Urban Residency on Household Financial Investments in Urban China.” Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 39(4), 551-565. (Two authors contributed equally to the work)
Qian, Yue. (2017). “Educational Assortative Mating and Female Breadwinning Trajectories: A Group-Based Trajectory Analysis.” In Intimate Relationships and Social Change. Published online: 07 Sep 2017; 95-123.

3. Family Dynamics, Population Processes, and Gender Inequality

Yavorsky, Jill E., Lisa A. Keister, Yue Qian, and Michael Nau. (2019). Women in the One Percent: Gender Dynamics in Top Income Positions. American Sociological Review, 84(1), 54-81.

Qian, Yue and Wen Fan. (2018). "Men and Women at Work: Occupational Gender Composition and Affective Well-Being in the United States." Journal of Happiness Studies.    ​
Qian, Yue, Claudia Buchmann, and Zhe Zhang. (2018). “Gender Differences in Educational Adaptation of Immigrant-Origin Youth in the United States.” Demographic Research, 38, 1155-1188.
Qian, Yue and Yongai Jin. (2018). “Women’s Fertility Autonomy in Urban China: The Role of Couple Dynamics Under the Universal Two-Child Policy.” Chinese Sociological Review, 50(3), 275-309.
Yavorsky, Jill E., Philip N. Cohen, and Yue Qian. (2016). “Man Up, Man Down: Race-Ethnicity and the Hierarchy of Men in Female-Dominated Work.” The Sociological Quarterly, 57(4), 733- 758.
Qian, Yue and Liana C. Sayer. (2016). “Division of Labor, Gender Ideology, and Marital Satisfaction in East Asia.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 78(2), 383-400.  
Qian, Yue and Zhenchao Qian. (2015). “Work, Family, and Gendered Happiness among Married People in Urban China.” Social Indicators Research, 121, 61-74.

4. Family Dynamics, Population Processes, and Health and Well-being

Fan, Wen and Yue Qian. (2017). “Native-Immigrant Occupational Segregation and Worker Health in the United States, 2004–2014.” Social Science & Medicine, 183, 130-141.
​Qian, Yue and Chris Knoester. (2015). “Parental Status and Subjective Well-being among Currently Married Individuals in China.” Journal of Family Issues, 36(10), 1351-1376.
Fan, Wen and Yue Qian. (2015). “Long-Term Health and Socioeconomic Consequences of Early-Life Exposure to the 1959-61 Chinese Famine.” Social Science Research, 49, 53-69.