Supplementary Reading List(Electronic File Only)
1. King, Gary 1986. “How to Not Lie with Statistics: Avoiding CommonMistakes in Quantitative Political Science.”American Journal of Political Science. 30: 666-87.
2. Xie, Yu and Emily Hannum 1996 “Regional Variation in EarningsInequality in Reform-era China”AmericanJournal of Sociology 950-92 [variable transformation, linearity test,analysis of variance/covariance, multi-level model]
3. Meng, Xin and Paul Miller 1995 “Occupational Segregation and ItsImpact on Gender Wage Discrimination in China’s Rural Industrial Sector” Oxford Economic Papers 47:136-155[Decomposition, ordered probit and multinomial logit models]
4. Cheng, Yuan and Jianzhong Dai 1995. “Intergenerational Mobility inModern China.” European Sociological Review 17-35 (log-linear model).
5. Kung, James Kai-sing. 2002. “Off-farm Labor Markets and the Emergenceof Land Rental Markets in Rural Markets.” Journalof Comparative Economics 30-395-414 [Tobit model]
6. Raymo,James M. and Yu Xie. 2000. “Income of the Urban Elderly in Post-reform China:Political Capital, Human Capital, and the State.”Social Science Research 29:1-24.
7. Walder, Andrew G., Bobai Li, and Donald Treiman 2000. “Politics andLife Chance in a State Socialist Regime: Dual Career Path into the UrbanChinese Elite, 1949-1996” AmericanSociological Review65:191-201. [Piecewise exponential model].
8. Wu, Xiaogang, and Donald Treiman. 2004. “TheHousehold Registration System and Social Stratification in China 1955-1996.”Demography [Discrete-time logit model].
9. Steven D. Levitt. 2004 “Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s:Four Factors That Explain the Decline and SixThat Do Not.” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (1): 163-190.
10. Christophe Van den Bulte and Gary L. Lilien. 2001. “MedicalInnovation Revisited: Social Contagion versus Marketing Effort.” American Journal of Sociology, 106 (5): 1409-1435.
11. Podolny, Joel M. 1993. “A status-based model of market competition.”The American Journal of Sociology, 98 (4).
12. Xueguang Zhou; Wei Zhao; Qiang Li; He Cai. 2003. “Embeddedness andcontractual relationships in China's transitional economy.” American Sociological Review, 68 (1).