YAO LU Department of Sociology Columbia University New York, NY 10027 Phone: 212-854-5442 E-mail: yao.lu@columbia.edu CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS 2016 - Present Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University 2008-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Columbia University 2008 - Present Faculty affiliate: Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D., Sociology, UCLA 2008 M.S., Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UCLA 2005 M.A., Sociology, UCLA 2003 B.S., Statistics, Fudan University (China) AREAS OF INTEREST Social Stratification; Social Demography; Migration/Immigration; Labor Markets; Collective Action; Health; Family and Child Well-being; Chinese Society PUBLICATIONS (peer-reviewed; * denotes current or former student co-author) In press In press Lu, Yao, Neeraj Kaushal, Nicole Denier*, and Julia Shu-Huah Wang*. Health of Newly Arrived Immigrants in Canada and the United States: Differential Selection on Health. Health & Place. Qin, Lijian, Wei Wang*, and Yao Lu. "The Working and Living Conditions of Collegeeducated Rural Migrants in China." Asian Population Studies. 2017 Lu, Yao, Nicole Denier*, Julia Shu-Huah Wang*, and Neeraj Kaushal. Unhealthy Assimilation or Persistent Health Advantage? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Health in the United States. Social Science & Medicine 195:105-114. 2017 Lu, Yao, and Ran Tao. Organizational Structure and Collective Action: Lineage Networks, Semi-autonomous Civic Associations, and Collective Resistance in Rural China. American Journal of Sociology 12(6): 1726-74. 1
2017 Lu, Yao, Wenjuan Zheng*, and Wei Wang*. Migration and Popular Resistance in Rural China: Wukan and Beyond. The China Quarterly 229:122. 2017 Lu, Yao, Julia Wang*, and Wen-Jui Han. Women s Employment Trajectories in the First Year Following Birth: Patterns, Determinants, and Variations by Race/Ethnicity and Nativity. Demography 54(1):93-118. 2016 Kaushal, Neeraj, Yao Lu, Nicole Denier*, Julia Shu-Huah Wang*, and Stephen Trejo. Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data. Journal of Population Economics 29:1249-1277. 2015 Lu, Yao, and Ran Tao. "Female Migration, Cultural Context, and Son Preference in Rural China." Population Research and Policy Review 34(5):665-686. 2015 Lu, Yao. Internal Migration, International Migration, and Physical Growth of Left- Behind Children: A Study of Two Settings. Health & Place 36:118-126. 2015 Kaushal, Neeraj, and Yao Lu. Recent Immigration to Canada and the United States: A Mixed Tale of Relative Selection. International Migration Review 49(2):279-522. [Equal authorship] 2014 Lu, Yao. Parental Migration and Education of Left-behind Children: A Comparison of Two Settings. Journal of Marriage and Family 76:1082-1098. 2014 Lu, Yao, and Lijian Qin. Healthy Migrant and Salmon Bias Hypotheses: A Study of Health and Internal Migration in China. Social Science and Medicine 102:41-48. 2013 Lu, Yao, Zai Liang, and Miao Chunyu. Emigration from China in Comparative Perspective. Social Forces 92(2):631-658. 2013 Lu, Yao, Danching Ruan, and Gina Lai. Social Capital and Economic Integration of Migrants in Urban China. Social Networks 35(3):357-369. 2013 Lu, Yao, and Feng Wang. From General Discrimination to Segmented Inequality: Migration and Inequality in Urban China. Social Science Research 42(6):1443-1456. 2013 Lu, Yao, and Hao Zhou. Academic Achievement and Loneliness of Migrant Children in China: School Segregation and Segmented Assimilation. Comparative Education Review 57(1):85-166. 2013 Lu, Yao. Household Migration, Remittances, and Their Impact on Health in Indonesia. International Migration 51: 202-215. 2012 Treiman, Donald J., Yao Lu, and Yaqiang Qi. New Approaches to Demographic Data Collection. Chinese Sociological Review 44(3):56-92. 2012 Lu, Yao. Education of Children Left Behind in Rural China. Journal of Marriage and Family 74(2):328-341. 2
2012 Lu, Yao, Peifeng Hu, and Donald J. Treiman. Migration and Depressive Symptoms in Migrant-Sending Areas: Findings from The Survey of Internal Migration and Health in China. International Journal of Public Health 57(4):691-698. 2012 Lu, Yao. Household Migration, Social Support, and Psychosocial Health: The Perspective from Migrant-Sending Areas. Social Science and Medicine 74:135-142. 2011 Lu, Yao and Donald J. Treiman. Migration, Remittances, and Educational Stratification among Blacks in Apartheid and Post-Apartheid South Africa. Social Forces 89(4):1119-1144. 2010 Lu, Yao. Mental Health and Risk Behaviors of Rural-Urban Migrants: Longitudinal Evidence from Indonesia. Population Studies 64(2):147-163. 2010 Lu, Yao. Rural-urban Migration and Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Indonesia. Social Science and Medicine 70(3): 412-419. 2009 McCarthy, William, Ritesh Mistry, Yao Lu, Minal Patel, and Hong Zheng, and Barbara Dietsch. Could Density of Geocoded Tobacco Retailers near Schools Influence Risk of Students Smoking? American Journal of Public Health 99(11):2006-2013. 2009 Lu, Yao. Sibship Size, Family Organization, and Education in South Africa: Black-White Variations. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 27(2):110-125. 2009 Mistry, Ritesh, William McCarthy, Antronette Yancey, Yao Lu, and Minal Patel. Resilience and Patterns of Health Risk Behaviors in California Adolescents. Preventive Medicine 48(3):291-297. 2008 Lu, Yao and Donald J. Treiman. The Effect of Sibship Size on Educational Attainment in China: Period Variations. American Sociological Review 73(5):813-834. 2008 Li, Li, Zunyou Wu, Sheng Wu, Manhong Jia, Eli Lieber, and Yao Lu. Impacts of HIV/AIDS Stigma on Family Identity and Interactions in China. Families, Systems and Health 26(4):431-442. 2008 Lu, Yao. Test of the Healthy Migrant Hypothesis : A Longitudinal Analysis of Health Selectivity of Internal Migration in Indonesia. Social Science and Medicine 67(8):1331-1339. 2007 Lu, Yao. Educational Status of Temporary Migrant Children in China: Determinants and Regional Variations. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 16(1):29-55. 2006 Grusky, Oscar, Hongjie Liu, Xiaojing Li, Aimee-Noelle Swanson, Naihua Duan, Yibin Zhu, Erjian Ma, and Yao Lu. Is Voluntary Counseling and Testing of Drug Users in China Feasible? International Journal of STD and AIDS 17(5):354-355. 2006 Treiman, Donald J., William M. Mason, Yao Lu, Yi Pan, Yaqiang Qi, and Shige Song. Observations on the Design and Implementation of Sample Surveys in China. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies 1(1):81-101. INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS 3
2018 Lu, Yao. Parental Migration and the Well-being of Children Left Behind from A Comparative Perspective. Chapter 5 in Parenting From Afar: The Reconfiguration of the Family Across Distance, edited by Maria Guzman, Jill Brown, and Carolyn Edwards. Oxford University Press. 2016 Lu, Yao and Alice Tianbo Zhang*. The Link between Migration and Health. Chapter 2 in Handbook of Migration and Health. Eldward Elgar. 2012 Treiman, Donald J., Yao Lu, and Yaqiang Qi. New Approaches to Demographic Data Collection. Pp. 385-439 in Frontiers of Demography, edited by Zai Liang. Beijing: People s University Press. [in Chinese] 2009 Shen, Anan, Wang Feng, and Yao Lu. Earnings and Expenditures among Migrants and Urbanites in Shanghai. Pp.60-90 in Migration and the Remaking of Shanghai, edited by Danching Ruan. Beijing: Xuelin Publication House. [in Chinese] GRANTS (EXTERNAL) 2012-2017 Migration and Child Health and Development: Effects and Mechanisms NICHD 1K01HD073318 2013-2015 Vulnerability and Resilience: Health and Development of Migrant Children and Left-behind Children in China Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Junior Scholar Grant 2012-2015 Education and Earnings Trajectories Across Generation (with Neeraj Kaushal) National Science Foundation SES-1226546 2010-2014 The Well-being of Migrant Children and Children Left Behind: Data Collection, (with Donald J. Treiman, Irwin Garfinkel, and Jean Wei-Jun Yeung) National Science Foundation SES-1027048 2010-2012 The Consequences of Migration for Child Health in Sending Areas NICHD 1R03HD062691 2009-2011 Migration and Child Well-Being: The Perspective from Sending Areas National Science Foundation SES-0921090 GRANTS (INTERNAL) 2016 Lenfest Junior Faculty Development Awards 2012 Columbia GSAS, Junior Faculty Summer Grant 4
2010-2011 CPRC seed grant, PI (with Neeraj Kaushal) 2009-2010 ILAS, Faculty Travel Grant 2009 Columbia GSAS, Junior Faculty Summer Grant 2008-2009 ISERP seed grant AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2012-2013 Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation 2007-2008 American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Fellowship 2007-2008 Asia Institute Graduate Fellowship, UCLA 2006 Student Travel Award, ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification (RC28) 2004-2005 William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship 2003-2004 Chancellor s Fellowship, UCLA TEACHING V3212 Statistics for Social Research V3243 China Today: Change, Inequalities, and Social Life UN3981 Migration and Development UN3982 Social and Political Development in Contemporary China W3020 Social Statistics G4074/4076 Introductory Social Data Analysis I G4075/4077 Introductory Social Data Analysis II G4270 Seminar on Social Demography G4271 Seminar on Contemporary Chinese Society SERVICE TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2017-2018 WEAI Workshops and Conferences Program Committee 2017-2018 Department Search Committee 2016-present Columbia Global Centers (Beijing) faculty steering committee 2016-2017 WEAI Research Committee 2016-2017 WEAI Fellowship Committee 2016-2017 Departmental Graduate Student Awards Committee 2016-2017 Society of Fellows Selection Committee 2016 Organizer, Columbia Population Research Center conference 2015-2016 Organizer, WEAI seminar series (Social, Demographic, and Political Development of China Today) 2015-present Co-Convener, Immigration/Migration Research Area, Columbia Population Research Center 2015-2016 WEAI Internal Review Committee 2015-2016 Faculty Advisor, SHIFT (Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation) 2015-2016 Department Search Committee 2015-2016 Society of Fellows Selection Committee 2015 Senior Thesis Nomination Committee 5
2014-2015 Department Graduate Student Admission Committee 2013-2014 Department Graduate Student Admission Committee 2011-2012 Organizer, Department Colloquium Series 2011 Co-organizer, Center for Wealth and Inequality seminar 2010-2011 DSW to PhD Conversion Review Committee 2010-2011 Department Graduate Student Admission Committee 2009-2010 Co-organizer, Conference on Immigration/migration, Columbia Population Research Center 2009, 2011 ISERP Seed Grant Review Committee 2009-2010 Departmental Graduate Student Awards Committee 2008-2009 Departmental Graduate Student Awards Committee PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2017 Co-organizer, RC28 at Columbia University 2016-2017 Session organizer, PAA 2014-2015 Session organizer, PAA, 2013-2014 Session organizer, PAA 2013-2015 Board member, North American Chinese Sociologists Association 2012 Chair and discussant, RC28 2009 Chair and discussant, RC28 EDITORIAL SERVICE 2018-present 2017-present 2016-present Editorial Board, Social Forces Editorial Board, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility Editorial Board, Chinese Sociological Review MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS American Journal of Sociology; American Sociology Review; Social Forces; Demography; Social Science Research; Social Problems; International Migration Review; Journal of Marriage and Family; Social Networks; Social Science and Medicine; Sociology of Education; Population Research and Policy Review; Research in Social Stratification and Mobility; The China Quarterly; Comparative Education Review; International Migration; Research in the Sociology of Education; Socio-Economic Review; Chinese Sociological Review; Modern China; Rural Sociology; International Journal of Comparative Sociology; Sociological Inquiry; Review of Economics of the Household; Epidemiology. PROPOSAL REVIEWS National Science Foundation Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) Hong Kong Research Grants Council Research Council of Canada 6