Hope Xu Yan

Hope Xu Yan
Louisiana State University | LSU · Department of Sociology

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Hope Xu Yan is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University. She is broadly interested in population health inequalities, gender and racial stratification, parenting and families in the global context. Her recent work focuses on racial and SES differences in U.S. mothers’ mental health and gender inequality in health and healthcare in the Global South. She earned her PhD degree in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park

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Publications (10)
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Studies on parenting and mental health have documented both racial differences in mothers’ parental stress levels and mixed evidence on the impacts of mothers’ socioeconomic status (SES) on their parental stress. Less is known about how the association between mothers’ SES and parental stress varies by race, or to what extent this variation contrib...
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Using primary data from the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study, the authors examined how the pandemic affected the stress levels of women with and without coresiding minor children (mothers vs. nonmothers), paying special attention to the moderating role of employment status. The ordinary least squares regression results show that...
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Demographers and family researchers have long debated whether early childbearing has negative consequences on the offspring, but few have considered that the benefits of delayed childbearing (or the lack thereof) may not be universal. Using sibling data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Children and Young Adults, we investigate ho...
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults have experienced pronounced declines in well-being. However, less is known about how changes to daily routines and settings, such as the shift to remote work within many occupations, may be playing a role in well-being outcomes. Drawing on a unique time diar...
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While increased access to household assets has been shown to improve older individuals’ autonomy and bargaining power at home, the role of gender hierarchy in shaping differential impacts of household assets has received far less attention. This article explores the gender asymmetry in the association of older people’s (age 60 years or more) decisi...
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Despite social scientists’ long-standing interest in the influences of siblings, previous research has not settled the debates on how relevant sibship size is to child development and whether growing up with more siblings could be beneficial. Using 30 years of longitudinal data and fixed-effects models, this study offers the most comprehensive evid...
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COVID-19 social distancing requirements, school and child care closures, workplaces shifting to remote work, and unprecedented job loss have changed the rhythm of daily life in disparate ways for women and men. The emerging literature on gendered impacts of COVID-19 indicates widening gaps in married parents’ housework and child care time (Carlson,...
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Using primary data from the Assessing the Social Consequences of COVID-19 study (N=1,647), we examined how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the stress levels (i.e., pre-pandemic vs. during-pandemic stress) of women with and without coresiding minor children, paying special attention to the moderating role of women’s employment status. Results from...
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This measurement brief has been designed to provide an overview of the existing approaches used for collecting data on women's labor market experiences. More specifically, this measurement brief is concerned with women's paid work, and the collection and use of various types of employment data in relation to measuring women's empowerment. First, we...
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This research studies whether children’s gender influences household adults’ perceptions of their illnesses and the pattern of seeking medical treatments for them, the aim of which is to understand to what extent minor girls (under 15) are discriminated against in Chinese rural households’ allocation of curative healthcare. Using the 2014 wave of C...

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