Guangya Liu

• Ph.D. and J.D.
• Fellow at Duke University

Previous cross-national research suggests that women may be less likely to prefer family-based support to older adults and more likely to prefer government-based support compared to men. Guided by theories of gendered paid and unpaid labor, social network resources and strain, and global inequality, this paper investigates whether a gender gap in a...

Today, more than five years after Dodd-Frank was first signed into law, uncertainty surrounds many aspects of the Volcker Rule’s application and ultimate impact on financial markets and bank stability. Many more years will likely pass before that uncertainty is resolved. We demonstrate through a quantitative and qualitative analysis that these diff...

Divorce is a major life stressor that can have economic, emotional, and physical health consequences. However, the cumulative association between divorce and risks for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is unknown. This study investigated the association between lifetime exposure to divorce and the incidence of AMI in US adults. We used nationally r...

Objectives: Studies show that caregiving can have negative consequences on the psychological and physical health of its providers. However, few studies have examined the immediate and long-term impact of caregiving on health and none have considered these longitudinal associations among women in a predominately family-care society such as China....

Using three primary data sources plus three supplemental sources discussed in an appendix, this paper examines how well non-economic damages could be predicted by economic damages and at how the ratio of non-economic damages to economic damages changed as the magnitude of the economic damages awarded by juries increased. We found a mixture of consi...

Employment instability is a major source of strain affecting an increasing number of adults in the United States. Little is known about the cumulative effect of multiple job losses and unemployment on the risks for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We investigated the associations between different dimensions of unemployment and the risks for AMI...

Caring for grandchildren is a common and normative experience for many Chinese grandparents. This study investigates the influence of child care provision on older adults' health trajectories in China. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (1991, 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2006), we apply growth curve models to examine the effect o...

Guided by theories and empirical research on intergenerational relationships, we examine the phenomenon of grandparents caring for grandchildren in contemporary China. Using a longitudinal dataset (China Health and Nutrition Survey), we document a high level of structural and functional solidarity in grandparent-grandchildren relationships. Interge...

This article examines social stratification in individual health trajectories for multiple cohorts in the context of China's dramatically changing macro-social environment. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find significant socioeconomic status (SES) differences in the mean level of health and that these SES differentials ge...

The proximate determinants of population aging in China are fundamentally the same as those in any other country. It is an inevitable consequence of the process known as the “demographic transition” in which declining fertility together with a rise in life expectancy leads to a shift towards an older age structure of the population. Yet, the story...

We investigated the characteristics of the oldest old in China and examined whether the factors associated with longevity varied with advanced age. Drawing from the largest nationally representative longitudinal sample of oldest-old adults, we stratified descriptive statistics separately by gender and urban-rural residence and then used ordered log...

This study examines the institutional and attitudinal changes in elder care homes in Tianjin, China. Based on a survey conducted in 2001 with 61 elder home managers and 265 elder residents, this study examines (1) factors that influence elder home managers' views about elder home development and (2) elders' evaluation of elder home quality and thei...

Existing research on the institutionalized population of older adults is primarily limited to Western countries. This study is the first to use nationally representative data to examine differences in the institutionalized and community-residing population of the oldest-old (ages 80+) in China. Using three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy...

Based on 6,444 deceased respondents ages 80 to 105 years from the first three waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, the authors use multilevel modeling to examine how community development, individual sociodemographic characteristics, health conditions, and health resources affect place of death. Results show that 92% of Chine...

This paper studies the attitudes of Chinese elderly parents and their family members toward institutional elder care. Based on a sample survey of 265 elderly residents in 67 elder home institutions and 114 family members, this study finds that elders and family members generally had high evaluations of institutions' quality in terms of facility, me...

This study examines recent developments in institutional care for Chinese elders and attitudinal changes toward institutional care in Tianjin, China. Based on studies in 12 elder home sites and survey interviews with 265 older residents, this study compares institutional differences between government and non-government-owned elder homes, and exami...

This paper examines recent developments in elder care homes and changing attitudes toward institutional care in the Tianjin area of China. Based on research conducted at 12 sites, this study compares two types of elder care homes which are competing in the growing Chinese market for institutional elder care: ones characterized as government-owned a...

Homelessness in the United States has increased substantially since the late 1970s and has been a central political topic for several decades. A lack of affordable housing, substance abuse, the mental health deinstitutionalization movement, a suboptimal social safety net, and unemployment all contribute to the increase in homelessness. Unfortunatel...