Recent developments in causal inference and machine learning

JE Brand, X Zhou, Y Xie - Annual Review of Sociology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent advances in causal inference relevant to sociology. We focus on
a selective subset of contributions aligning with four broad topics: causal effect identification …

[图书][B] Of boys and men: Why the modern male is struggling, why it matters, and what to do about it

RV Reeves - 2022 - books.google.com
The book that Sparked a National Conversation Boys and men are struggling. Profound
economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom …

Fe, N‐Inducing Interfacial Electron Redistribution in NiCo Spinel on Biomass‐Derived Carbon for Bi‐functional Oxygen Conversion

Y Liu, L Zhou, S Liu, S Li, J Zhou, X Li… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, an interfacial electron redistribution is proposed to boost the activity of carbon‐
supported spinel NiCo2O4 catalyst toward oxygen conversion via Fe, N‐doping strategy. Fe …

How, and for whom, does higher education increase voting?

CE Ahearn, JE Brand, X Zhou - Research in Higher Education, 2023 - Springer
The college-educated are more likely to vote than are those with less education. Prior
research suggests that the effect of college attendance on voting operates directly, by …

Equalization or reproduction?“Some college” and the social function of higher education

SSC Payne - Sociology of Education, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
What are the economic consequences of college noncompletion? Given escalating student
debt, is “some college” still worth it? This article applies augmented inverse probability …

Estimation and inference of extremal quantile treatment effects for heavy-tailed distributions

D Deuber, J Li, S Engelke… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Causal inference for extreme events has many potential applications in fields such as
climate science, medicine, and economics. We study the extremal quantile treatment effect …

Understanding the educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese: The roles of gender, ethnic salience, and residential concentration

Z Mu - Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2024 - Elsevier
This study, using a 10% sample from China's 1% inter-census population surveys for 2015,
examines patterns of educational disparities between Han and Muslim Chinese. I use …

Heterogeneous peer effects of college roommates on academic performance

Y Cao, T Zhou, J Gao - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding how student peers influence learning outcomes is crucial for effective
education management in complex social systems. The complexities of peer selection and …

Is Meritocracy Not So Bad After All? Educational Expansion and Intergenerational Mobility in 40 Countries

HG van de Werfhorst - American sociological review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the face of continued socioeconomic inheritance, the belief that the simple expansion of
educational opportunities will create meritocratic societies has been met with skepticism. It is …

Amorphous MnRuOx Containing Microcrystalline for Enhanced Acidic Oxygen‐Evolution Activity and Stability

J Zhang, L Xu, X Yang, S Guo, Y Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Compared to Ir, Ru‐based catalysts often exhibited higher activity but suffered significant
and rapid activity loss during the challenging oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in a corrosive …