🚀 "ntwrk": A Stata package for network analysis 🚀 ⭐ Yesterday at the @statacorp.bsky.social Germany 2026 conference in Munich, I showcased the #ntwrk package: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... The package is a designed for both network analysis and graph layouts. Check it out! Up soon SSC.

How to people feel financially when having children? Our new work finds big detrimental effects on people’s financial wellbeing, larger for women driven by the much larger impact on their employment, larger when children are very young and teenagers. See doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

What do 219k TikTok and Douyin comments reveal about childbirth/rearing in East Asia? From intense anti-natalist individualism in China to systemic frustrations over rigid gender roles and crushing childrearing costs and economic anxieties. Read the open-access paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Language proficiency is a crucial factor in migrant integration. This paper provides new insights into a society marked by a dual-language system during the transitional period of hukou reform. #China #migration #integration #languageproficiency www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

When Hukou becomes less important, what's next? New work with one of my students from Shanghai! It is fun to see how daily observations inspire the student and the research!

What if every family stops having children as soon as they have a boy? Would the sex ratio end up skewed one way or the other? This is what it would look like for 25 random families following that rule (with a normal male/female sex ratio of 105/100.) /1

How can time-use data help us better understand gender inequalities? Our latest article in Sociology Compass answers this question — have a look! dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4... Yucheng Wu, Muzhi Zhou #timeuse