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Hongwei Xu

B.A. in Sociology, Peking University

Contact Information:
Brown University
Department of Sociology
Box 1916
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: (401) 339-1577
Fax: (401) 863-3213
Hongwei_Xu@brown.edu

Year of Entry: 2005

Previous Degrees:
B.A. in Sociology, Peking University (Beijing, China) 2003

Areas of Interest:

Organizations, Spatial Analysis

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests:

My substantive research interests include social demography, health inequalities, epidemiologic and nutrition transitions, child wellbeing, and residential segregation. My methodological research interests include Bayesian inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal and multilevel analysis, and survival analysis.

Dissertation Title:

“Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Residential Segregation: A Spatial Analysis of 1880 Newark, New Jersey”. Committee members include Susan E. Short (chair), John R. Logan, Seth Spielman, and Margot Jackson.