Publications
My ResearchBelow is my publication list. Feel free to check them out!
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (Peer-reviewed) (* = Corresponding author; ^ = Student co-author and # = Postdoctoral scholar under supervision at time of project implementation)
42. Zhang, J.,^ Wang, J. S-H.,* & Chan, W. K. (2024). Utilising Consumer-directed Care Among Older Adults: Identifying Barriers from Behavioural Economics Perspectives. Research on Aging. doi: 10.1177/01640275231226228 41. Peng, C.H., Chang, Q.S., Wang, J. S-H., Yeung, C.Y., & Yip, P.S.F. (2024). Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty and welfare interventions: Towards an evidence-based poverty alleviation policies in Hong Kong. International Journal of Social Welfare. doi: 10.1111/ijsw.12648 40. Zhang, Y., Chen, Y-C., & Wang, J. S-H. (2023). Long-term care insurance and health and perceived satisfaction of older Chinese: Comparisons between urban/rural areas, chronic conditions, and their intersectionality. International Journal of Health Policy and Management. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7938 39. Zhang, J.,^ Chen, Y-C., Zeng, S., & Wang, J. S-H.* (In press). Developing a Cross-national Framework on Consumer-directed Care for Older Adults: Comparative Investigation and Implications for Policy Designs. Journal of Aging and Social Policy. 38. Wang, J. S-H., Zhu, Y., Peng, C.,# You, J. (In press). On the Formation and Nature of Internal Migration Policies in China: Patterns and Determinants of the Household Registration Reform in 2014. The China Quarterly. 37. Kang, J., Lee, W., Ham, J., & Wang, J. S-H. (In press). Motherhood or marriage penalty? A Comparative perspective in East Asian and Western countries. Family Relations. 36. Han, W. J., & Wang, J. S-H. (2022). Changing Employment and Work Schedule Patterns over the 30 Working Years—A Sequential Cluster Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), 13677. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192013677 35. Wang, J. S-H. (In press). Nudging for social change: Promises and cautions for social workers to apply behavioral economic tools. British Journal of Social Work. doi: 10.1093/bjsw/bcac153 34. Peng, C.,# & Wang, J. S-H.* (In press). Internal fiscal constraints, top-down pressure or horizontal competition? Local integration of urban-rural social-assistance programmes in China. The China Quarterly. doi: 10.1017/S0305741023001030 33. Peng, C.,# & Wang, J. S-H.* (In press). Accommodating China’s floating population: Local variations and determinants of housing policies for rural migrant workers. The China Quarterly, 253, 158-182. doi: 10.1017/S030574102200162X 32. Wang, J. S-H., Jing, L., & Ngai, P. (In press). Enjoying the fruit of development? Working conditions and the earnings of low-skilled internal migrants in China across two decades (1993-2015). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2022.2074380 31. Zhao, X.,^ & Wang, J. S-H.* (2021). The Effects of Multiple Welfare Program Participation on Educational Expenditures and Time Use: Evidence from the Social Safety Net in China. Children and Youth Services Review. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106279 30. Wang, J. S-H., Peng, C.#, Luo, H., Zhang, J.^, & Oh, H. (2021). Containment, Health, and Social Policies in the Time of COVID-19 – Determinants and Outcomes of Initial Responses across 120 countries. Health Policy and Planning, 36(10), 1613-1624. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czab115 29. Oh, H., Nagendra, A., Besecker, M., Smith, L., Koyanagi, A., & Wang, J. S-H. (2021). Economic strain, parental education, and psychotic experiences among college students in the United States: Findings from the Healthy Minds Study 2020. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. doi: 10.1111/eip.13221 28. Wang, J. S-H., Zhang, J.^ & Fu, T. H. (2021). The effects of universal child allowance in Taiwan on family expenditure. Children and Youth Services Review. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2021.106157 27. Peng, C.,# Wang, J. S-H.,* Zhu, Y. Xeng, Y.^ (2021). The effects of an old-age allowance programme on intergenerational interactions in Taiwan. Journal of Social Policy. doi: 10.1017/S0047279421000453 26. Wang, J. S-H., Malaeb, B., Ssewamala, F. M., Neilands, T., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2021). A Multifaceted Intervention with Savings Incentives to Reduce Multidimensional Child Poverty: Evidence from the Bridges Study (2012-2018) in Rural Uganda. Social Indicators Research. doi: 10.1007/s11205-021-02712-9 25. Wang, J. S-H., Cai, Y.,^ Gao, Q. (2021). How Effective are Social Safety Net Programs in Reducing Poverty Risks? A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Southeast China. Journal of Asian Public Policy. doi: 10.1080/17516234.2021.1920328 24. Wang, J. S-H., Zhao, X.,^ Nam., J. (2021). The Effects of Welfare Participation on Parenting Stress and Parental Engagement using an Instrumental Variables Approach: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Children and Youth Services Review, 121, 105845. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105845 23. Ssewamala, F. M., Wang, J. S-H., Brathwaite, R., Sun, S., Mayo-Wilson, L. J., Neilands, T. B., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2021). Impact of a Family Economic Intervention (Bridges) on Health Functioning of Adolescents Orphaned by HIV/AIDS: A 5-Year (2012–2017) Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda. American Journal of Public Health, 111(3), 504-513. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306044 22. Huang, X., Kaushal, N., & Wang, J. S-H. (2021). What explains the gap in welfare use among immigrants and natives? Population Research and Policy Review, 40, 819–860. doi: 10.1007/s11113-020-09621-8 21. Wang, J. S-H. (2021). State TANF Time Limit and Work Sanction Stringencies and Long-Term Trajectories of Welfare Use, Labor Supply, and Income. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 42, 650-696. doi: 10.1007/s10834-020-09714-8 20. Wang, J. S-H., Chui, C. H., Jordan, L. P., & Chan, S. K. (2022). An Experiential Learning-Based Integrated Policy Advocacy Education Model in Hong Kong: What Works in a Non-Western and Partial Democratic Context? Journal of Social Work Education, 58(2), 346-364. doi: 10.1080/10437797.2020.1817818 19. Tozan, Y., Sun, S., Capasso, A., Wang, J. S-H., Neilands, T. B., Bahar, O. S., Damulira, C., Ssewamala, F. M. (2019). Evaluation of a savings-led family-based economic empowerment intervention for AIDS-affected adolescents in Uganda: A four-year follow-up on efficacy and cost-effectiveness. PloS one, 14(12). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226809 18. Waldman, K., Wang, J. S. H., & Oh, H. (2019). Psychiatric problems among returned migrants in Mexico: updated findings from the Mexican Migration Project. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 54(10), 1285-1294. doi: 10.1007/s00127-019-01699-6 17. Waldman, K., Koyanagi, A., Wang, J. S. H., Ko, J., DeVylder, J., & Oh, H. (2019). Acculturative stress, disability, and health treatment utilization among Asian and Latin American immigrants in the United States. Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 54(10), 1275-1284. doi: 10.1007/s00127-019-01691-0 16. Peng, C., Fang, L., Wang, J. S-H., Law, Y. W., Zhang, Y., & Yip, P. S. F. (2019). Determinants of Poverty and Their Variation Across the Poverty Spectrum: Evidence from Hong Kong, a High-Income Society with a High Poverty Level. Social Indicators Research, 144(1), 219-250. doi: 10.1007/s11205-018-2038-5 15. Kaushal, N, Wang, J. S-H.*, & Huang, X. (2018). State Dream Acts and education, health and mental health of Mexican young adults in the U.S. Economics and Human Biology, 31, 138-149. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2018.08.013 14. Wang, J. S. H., & Kaushal, N. (2019). Health and mental health effects of local immigration enforcement. International Migration Review, 53(4), 970-1001. doi: 10.1177/0197918318791978 13. Wang, J. S-H., Ssewamala, F. M., Neilands, T., Bermudez, L. G., Garfinkel, I., Waldfogel, J., Brooks-Gunn, J., & You, J. (2018). Effects of financial incentives on saving outcomes and material well-being: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 37(3), 602-629. doi: 10.1002/pam.22065
12. Ssewamala, F. M., Wang, J. S-H., Neilands, T., Bermudez, L. G., Garfinkel, I., Waldfogel, J., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Kirkbride, G. (2018). Cost-Effectiveness of a Savings-led Economic Empowerment Intervention for AIDS-Affected Adolescents in Uganda: Implications for Scale-up in Low Resource Communities. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(1), S29-S36. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.09.026 11. Lu, Y., Denier, N., Wang, J. S-H., & Kaushal, N. (2017). Unhealthy assimilation or persistent health advantage? A longitudinal analysis of immigrant health in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, 195, 105-114. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.019 10. Lu, Y., Kaushal, N., Denier, N., & Wang, J. S-H. (2017). Health of newly arrived immigrants in Canada and the United States: Differential selection on health. Health & Place, 48, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.08.011 9. Lu, Y., Wang, J. S-H., & Han, W-J. (2017). Women's Short-Term Employment Trajectories Following Birth: Patterns, Determinants, and Variations by Race/Ethnicity and Nativity. Demography, 54(1), 93-118. doi: 10.1007/s13524-016-0541-3
8. Kaushal, N., Lu, Y., Denier, N., Wang, J. S-H., & Trejo, S. J. (2016). Immigrant employment and earnings growth in Canada and the USA: evidence from longitudinal data. Journal of Population Economics, 29(4), 1249-1277. doi: 10.1007/s00148-016-0600-5 7. Ssewamala, F. M., Karimli, L., Neilands, T. B., Wang, J. S. H., Han, C. K., Ilic, V., & Nabunya, P. (2016). Applying a Family-Level Economic Strengthening Intervention to Improve Education and Health-Related Outcomes of School-Going AIDS-Orphaned Children: Lessons from a Randomized Experiment in Southern Uganda. Prevention Science, 17(1), 134-143. doi: 10.1007/s11121-015-0580-9 6. Wang, J. S-H. (2015). TANF coverage, state TANF requirement stringencies, and child wellbeing. Children and Youth Services Review, 53, 121-129. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.03.028 5. Muchomba, F., Wang, J. S-H., & Agosta, L. (2014). Women's land ownership and risk of HIV infection in Kenya. Social Science & Medicine, 114, 97-102. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.05.055 4. Wang, J. S-H., Ssewamala, F. M., & Han, C-K. (2014). Impacts of family economic strengthening interventions on mental health functioning of caregivers for AIDS-affected children in rural Uganda. Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies, 9(3), 258-269. doi: 10.1080/17450128.2014.920119 3. Han, C-K., Ssewamala, F. M., & Wang, J. S-H. (2013). Family economic empowerment and mental health among AIDS-affected children living in AIDS-impacted communities: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in Southwestern Uganda. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 67(3), 225-230. doi: 10.1136/jech-2012-201601 2. DeVylder, J., Wang, J. S-H., Oh, H., & Lukens, E. (2013). Child loss and psychosis onset: evidence for traumatic experience as an etiological factor in psychosis. Psychiatry Research, 205(1-2), 90-94. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.08.008 1. Ssewamala, F. M., Wang, J. S-H., Karimli, L. & Nabunya, P. (2011). Strengthening Universal Primary Education in Uganda: The potential role of a family asset-based development policy approach. International Journal of Educational Development, 31(5), 466-471. doi: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.11.001 BOOK CHAPTERS (Peer-reviewed) (^ Student co-author or # Postdoctoral scholar under supervision at time of project implementation) Wang, J. S-H., Ng, I. Y. H., Ku, I., Kang, J. Y., Zhao, X.,^ Peng, C., # Abe, A., & Yao, Y. (2022). Income Packaging and Social Safety Nets for Low-Income Families with Children in East Asia. In Ku I., & Saunders, P. (Eds.) Poverty and Inequality in East Asia. U.K.: Edward Elgar. Abe, A., Chang, Y-L., Gao, X., Kang, J., Romich, J., & Wang, J. S-H. (2022). Working Poverty and Anti-Poverty Policy in Four East Asian Societies. In Ku I., & Saunders, P. (Eds.) Poverty and Inequality in East Asia. U.K.: Edward Elgar. Bradbury, B., Abe, A., Jäntti, M., Ku, I., & Wang, J. S-H. (2022). Explaining the Child Poverty Outcomes of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. In Ku I., & Saunders, P. (Eds.) Poverty and Inequality in East Asia. U.K.: Edward Elgar. Kang, JY., Lee, W., Ham, S., & Wang, J. S-H. (2022). Married Women’s Employment and Motherhood Employment Penalty by Couple’s Educational Attainment Across Ten Countries. In Ku I., & Saunders, P. (Eds.) Poverty and Inequality in East Asia. U.K.: Edward Elgar. |