Ph.D. 2006 (Sociology), Northwestern University;

M.A. 1999 (Sociology), Peking University;

B. A. 1996 (Sociology), Renmin University of China.

Social Stratification and Mobility (graduate level)

Introduction to Chinese Society (graduate level)

Social Statistics and Social Data Analysis using Stata (undergraduate level)

Introduction to Social Research Methods (undergraduate level)

Publications (In Chinese Peer Review Journals) (^# denotes student co-author)

Wu, Yuxiao, Fan Zhang^#. 2020. “The Health Cost of Attending Higher-achievement Schools: Peer Effects on Adolescents’ Academic Performance and Mental Health.” Educational Research (Jiaoyu Yanjiu) 7: 123-142..

Wu, Yuxiao, Peng Wang, and Sijia Du^#. 2018. “The Changing Chinese Family Structure and Adolescent Development.” Social Sciences in China (Zhongguo Shehui Kexue) 2: 98-120

Wu, Yuxiao, Chao Huang^#. 2016. “High School Socioeconomic Segregation and Educational Aspiration in China.” Social Sciences in China (Zhongguo Shehui Kexue) 4: 134-157.

Wu, Yuxiao. 2013. “The Keypoint School System, Tracking, and Educational Stratification in China, 1978-2008.” Sociological Studies (Shehuixue Yanjiu) 166 (4): 179-202

Wu, Yuxiao. 2013. “Educational Opportunities of Chinese Rural and Urban Residents in 1978-2008: Inequality and Evolution.” Social Sciences in China (Zhongguo Shehui Kexue) 207 (3): 4-21.

Wu, Yuxiao. 2011. “Social Networks, Occupational Attainment and Mobility.” Sociological Studies (Shehuixue Yanjiu) 155 (5): 128-152

Wu, Yuxiao. 2010. “Family Origins, Institutional Transformations and Elite Reproduction in Rural China, 1978-1996.” Sociological Studies (Shehuixue Yanjiu) 146 (2): 125-150.

 Publications (In English Peer Review Journals) (* denotes corresponding author; # # denotes student co-author)

Wu, Yuxiao, Zixu Han^#*, Sijia Du. 2024. “Changes in women’s labor force participation in urban China between 1990 and 2019: an age-period-cohort analysis.” Chinese Sociological Review. DOI: 10.1080/21620555.2024.2362841

Wang, Jingjing^#, Yuxiao Wu*. 2023. “Income inequality, cultural capital, and high school students’ academic achievement in OECD countries: A moderated mediation analysis.” British Journal of Sociology 74 (2): 148–172.

Wang, Jingjing^#, Yuxiao Wu*. 2023. “Private supplementary education and Chinese adolescents’ development: The moderating effects of family socioeconomic status.” Journal of Community Psychology 51 (2): 745–767.

Wu, Yuxiao, Dongyang Zhou^#. 2015. “Women’s Labor Force Participation in Urban China, 1990-2010.” Chinese Sociological Review 47: 314-342.

Wu, Yuxiao. 2008. “Cultural Capital, the State, and Educational Inequality in Urban China, 1949-1996.” Sociological Perspectives 51: 201-227.