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Xinyan Cao 曹欣言

@xcao.bsky.social

Sociology PhD candidate @ Brown University. UW-Madison alum. I study child health, gender inequalities, & work-family conflicts. Also Joyce! https://xcao-joyce.github.io

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Do you want to be included in our family starter pack or know other family sociologists who should be included? Leave a comment here, and follow our starter pack to hear the latest research on families! go.bsky.app/E3PGiEm

24.04.2025 15:30 — 👍 26    🔁 20    💬 32    📌 1

Could you please add me to the pack? Thanks a lot!!

24.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Redirecting

✨Check out our latest paper exploring how flexible work arrangements (FWAs) relate to gender disparities in housework. Wife’s use of FWAs can increase her housework and reduce her husband’s housework, while husband’s impact depends on both partners’ gender ideologies.

More:
doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

22.04.2025 17:29 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Many students hesitate to come to office hours because they don't know what to say. I've started explicitly asking all students to attend at least once and providing sentence starters—it's made a big difference in increasing participation.

26.01.2025 14:59 — 👍 227    🔁 39    💬 12    📌 6
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Unequal Effects of Wildfire Exposure on Infant Health by Maternal Education, 1995–2020 Using National Vital Statistics Birth and Fetal Death Data from 1995 to 2020 linked to county-level information on wildfires, we use variation in wildfire timing to examine how effects of wildfire exp...

I hope everyone in LA stays safe. And for pregnant women, I also hope for calm and recuperation. Wildfire exposure reduces infant health, especially for mothers with low SES, and it seems mostly due to stress.
doi.org/10.7758/RSF....

12.01.2025 02:52 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Hey everyone! sharing this non-exhaustive, purposively sampled starter pack for folks who study families/ social relationships and health! 😆 Please feel free to add yourself and share broadly!

go.bsky.app/TR96EFy

09.01.2025 02:44 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0
Careers | Human Resources

JOB ALERT: I am looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral scholar to work with me in projects related to social stratification, human capital formation and health disparities. Data management and statistical analysis skills required. The position offers competitive salary and benefits.

08.01.2025 15:13 — 👍 123    🔁 89    💬 5    📌 4

I made a Starter Pack!

But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary

Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT

@wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/63Jq944

#Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky

15.11.2024 00:57 — 👍 132    🔁 73    💬 56    📌 6

Thanks for the list! I would love to join it :)

17.12.2024 15:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

We created a starter pack for family sociologists! Please let us know if you would like to be added.
go.bsky.app/E3PGiEm

17.12.2024 13:41 — 👍 41    🔁 24    💬 22    📌 1
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Etusivu - WORK2025 WORK2025 is the seventh international multidisciplinary WORK conference on work and working life research. Welcome!

The WORK2025 conference invites abstracts reflecting the theme, “Work in the Era of Unruly AI.” Held on 8/20- 22/25 in Turku, Finland & Online. Call for abstracts closes on 2/20/25. For more information, visit www.work2025.fi

15.12.2024 16:06 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

I've updated the "Sociologists Studying China Starter Pack" to include not only more sociologists but also historians, political theorists, political scientists, historical IR scholars, cultural anthropologists, critical geographers, & media scholars who examine Chinese society from various angles.

24.11.2024 15:03 — 👍 34    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 0
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RSF Journal Contributors Discuss the Disparate Effect of Disruptive In this interview, contributors to RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences issue “Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children,” discuss variation in the consequences of

Cool interviews with authors of the Russell Sage Foundation journal issue on disparate effects of disruptive events during childhood. www.russellsage.org/news/rsf-jou...

19.11.2024 18:45 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Unequal Effects of Wildfire Exposure on Infant Health by Maternal Education, 1995–2020 Using National Vital Statistics Birth and Fetal Death Data from 1995 to 2020 linked to county-level information on wildfires, we use variation in wildfire timing to examine how effects of wildfire exp...

New paper @RussellSageFdn with @xcao.bsky.social
Wildfire exposure harms infant health
- reduces fetal survival and infant health more for mothers with less education
www.rsfjournal.org/content/10/1...

17.01.2024 21:33 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Please submit a paper to the summer 2024 RC28 meeting @BrownUniversity!

sites.brown.edu/rc28/

13.12.2023 15:19 — 👍 31    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 0

@xcao is following 20 prominent accounts