Associate Professor
Email:xuqi@nju.edu.cn
Areas of research and teaching
Marriage and Family; Social Demography; Social Stratification; Quantitative Methods and Data Analysis
Education
Ph.D. 2014 (Sociology), Peking University;
B.A. 2009 (Sociology), Renmin University of China.
Courses
Casual Inferences in Social Sciences: Principles and Applications (Masters level)
Survey Methodology (Undergraduate level)
Publications
Publications (In Chinese Peer Review Journals) (# denotes student co-author)
Xu, Qi. 2024. “Exploring the Causal Complexity of Mate Preferences: A Reanalysis of Survey Experiment Data Using QCA.” Sociological Studies 38(3): 138-159.
Xu, Qi, Jinshui Wang#, Yuxiao Wu. 2022. “Theory-Driven or Method-Driven? New Approaches to Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.” Sociological Studies 37(6): 36-58.
Xu, Qi. 2021. “From Fatherhood Premium to Motherhood Penalty: Trends in the Fertility Effects on Men's and Women's Wage in China (1989-2015).” Sociological Studies 36(5): 1-24.
Xu, Qi. 2018. “Mixed Subjective Class Identity: A New Interpretation of Chinese Class Identity.” Sociological Studies 33(6): 102-129.
Xu, Qi, Zeqi Qiu, Jianxin Li. 2015. “Is the ‘Seven-year Itch’ Real? A Study on the Changing Divorce Pattern in Chinese Marriages.” Sociological Studies 30(5): 216-241.
Xu, Qi, Jianning Yu, Zeqi Qiu. 2013. “The Impact of Children on Divorce Risk.” Sociological Studies 28(3): 26-48.
Publications (In English Peer Review Journals) (* denotes corresponding author; # denotes student co-author)
Xu, Qi*, Xiuming Pan#. 2023. “Beauty and Status: Matching and Exchange within Chinese Marriages.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 9(3): 375-407.
Xu, Qi*. 2021. “Division of Domestic Labor and Fertility Behaviors in China: The Impact of Extended Family Traditions on Gender Equity Theory.” China Population and Development Studies 5(1): 41-60.
Xu, Qi*, Jinshui Wang#, Jingjing Qi. 2019. “Intergenerational coresidence and the subjective well-being of older adults in China: The moderating effect of living arrangement preference and intergenerational contact.” Demographic Research 41: 1347-1372.
Xu, Qi*, Jianxin Li, Xuejun Yu. 2014. “Continuity and Change in Chinese Marriage and the Family: Evidence from CFPS.” Chinese Sociological Review 47(1): 30-56.
Zhang, Chunni*, Qi Xu, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie, Xiaobo Zhang. 2014. “An Evaluation of Poverty Prevalence in China: New Evidence from Four Recent Surveys.” China Economic Review 31: 410-425.
Xie, Yu*, Xiaobo Zhang, Qi Xu, Chunni Zhang. 2015. “Short-term Trends in China’s Income Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from a Longitudinal Household Survey.” China Economic Journal 8(3): 1-17.