Ning Xiong

• Doctor of Philosophy
• PhD at University of Utah

Health inequity represents a significant social injustice with major policy implications. This study examines the role of neighborhood intergenerational mobility (IM)—defined as the extent to which children within a specific neighborhood can achieve better socioeconomic outcomes than their parents—in shaping population health, addressing widening hea...

This study explores the mediating role of intergenerational mobility (IM) in the relationship between economic inequality and population health in the United States, focusing on life expectancy. Using multilevel structural equation modeling across state and commuting zone (CZ) levels for both genders, we find that economic inequality indices, excep...

Intergenerational mobility (IM) has recently generated significant attention. However, the mechanisms of IM, including the neighborhood effects, are still not well understood. This research aims to advance the research on IM by emphasizing the role of neighborhood environments and their mediating effects in the United States. Our results suggest th...

Persistent racial inequality in socioeconomic status within urban areas has been a significant concern in both the US and European countries. Differences across racial groups in intergenerational mobility (IM) have been identified as a key source of this persistence. However, efforts to understand racial inequality in IM have rarely considered the...

This study examines the mechanisms of spatial variation in intergenerational mobility (IM) in United States (US) counties. We explicitly emphasized the effects of urban space and four aspects of urban sprawl-density, mix of uses, centering, and accessibility-and their interaction with socioeconomic factors. We found that urban sprawl variables did...

Subjective well-being (SWB) has recently gained significant attention as an important indicator of measuring quality of life. Based on the Twitter Sentiment Geographical Index, this study analyzes the spatial distribution characteristic of county-level SWB across the United States. We apply multiple linear regression, structural equation modeling (...

This paper examined the multi-scalar effects of different types of agglomeration economies, namely, specialization, related variety, unrelated variety, and urbanization economies, on tech firm births in Salt Lake County, Utah, U.S. We found that these agglomeration economies affected tech firm births simultaneously, but their spatial externalities...

This paper examines population redistribution and urban growth in Nanjing-an ancient capital and a new Tier-1 city in China from 1990 to 2015, focusing on the dynamic processes of urbanization and suburbanization. We rely on China's census and survey microdata and the shift-share method to investigate population changes and spatial expansion in the...

Development for townships is an important driving force for new-type urbanization of China. However, it appears that the level of the development between different towns is severely unbalanced. This unbalanced development phenomenon has resulted in various problems such as poor living environment and brain drain in less developed towns. This paper...

以1978—2017年国家和地方出台的104项政策文献为客观凭证,运用文本分析法对政策文献的数量演进、区域分布、文种类型、发布单位、政策等主题词进行统计分析,归纳总结集体建设用地流转的政策演变轨迹。结果表明:区域分布呈现较强的层次性和差异性;1978—2017年政策文献总体数量呈现增长趋势,而国家层面增长趋势平和,地方政策自1999年后政策文献数量呈爆发式增长;政策主体呈现弱权威性,多以地方政府为主,效力层级较低;文种类型国家层面呈现较强的指导性,地方层面具有较强的规范性;政策主题呈现较强的结构性和阶段递进性,地方政策主题呈现差异性和弱均衡性。这反映各地根据各地特点制定规范政策,缺乏国家制度的顶层设计。

The urbanization process over last several decades in China has brought benefits in multiple dimensions throughout the country. However, it appears that the benefits shared by small towns is very limited, and this is particular the case in Southwest China. This paper examines holistically the barriers against benefit-sharing by small towns in the u...

通过诊断西南地区山地小城镇可持续建设水平，针对性地提出提升西南地区山地小城镇可持续建设水平的路径，为西南地区山地小城镇可持续建设提供科学的决策支撑。基于对我国20 世纪80 年代以来不同部门建立的9 套城镇化可持续建设指标体系的梳理，结合西南地区山地小城镇可持续建设的内涵，从经济建设、社会进步、资源环境3 个准则层选取24 个指标，构建西南地区山地小城镇可持续建设水平评价指标体系框架。并利用熵值层次法确定评价指标体系中各指标的权重，应用线性加权综合评价模型对西南地区具有代表性的山地小城镇进行可持续建设水平诊断。西南地区山地小城镇可持续建设水平不高，尤其是经济建设比较落后。一方面以农业为主的西南地区山地小城镇经济结构亟待升级转型。另一方面，西南地区山地小城镇镇区人口集聚能力不足，限制了经济发展...