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Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Statistics

• Affiliation(s)

  • Statistics, Population Studies Center (ISR), Survey Research Center (ISR), Center for Chinese Studies (II), Quantitative Methodology Program

• Fields of Study

  • Economic Sociology and Organizations
  • Social Demography

• About

  Yu Xie holds several faculty appointments at the University of Michigan. He is Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology and Statistics and Research Professor in the Survey Research Center and the Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research (ISR), where he directs the Quantitative Methodology Program (QMP). He is also a Faculty Associate at the Center for Chinese Studies.    Professor Xie's main areas of interest are social stratification, demography, statistical methods, and the sociology of science. He recently published Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis with Daniel Powers (Second Edition, Emerald, 2008), Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes with Kimberlee Shauman (Harvard University Press, 2003), A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans (Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau 2004) with Kimberly Goyette, and Marriage and Cohabitation (University of Chicago Press 2007) with Arland Thornton and William Axinn.

• Education

  • Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1989

• Awards

  • National Academy of Science
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Research Areas of Interest

  • Demography, Education, Stratification/Mobility

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • (2000) Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis

• Articles

  • (2007) Effects of Sibship Structure Revisited, Sociology of Education
  • (2007) Otis Dudley Duncan's Legacy, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
  • (2007) Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects with Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes, Sociological Methodology
  • (2005) Temporal and Regional Variation in Earnings Inequality, Social Science Research
  • (2005) Market Premium, Social Process, and Statisticism, American Sociological Review
  • (2004) Asian Americans" Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined, American Journal of Sociology
  • (2000) Demography: Past, Present, and Future, Journal of the American Statistical Association
  • (1992) The Log-Multiplicative Layer Effect Model for Comparing Mobility Tables, American Sociological Review