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Abnormal Cortical Thickness Development in Young Adults With Heavy Cannabis Use: A Longitudinal Study Open

Wei Li, Cheng Xu, Hongwei Xu, Bo Yin, Hui Xu , et al. · 2025

Cannabis is one of the most commonly used illicit drugs worldwide, with its prolonged use potentially leading to various cognitive impairments and brain structural changes. However, current research on the dynamic changes in cortical thick…

How individual BMI affected general cognitive ability in young adults: a moderated chain mediation model Open

KeZhen Lv, ShengJie Xu, Yuqi Sun, Rui Zhou, Hongwei Xu , et al. · 2025

Objective With the rising global obesity rates, increasing research has been directed toward understanding how obesity affects cognitive ability in young adults. This study aims to explore the impact of body mass index (BMI) on general cog…

Tackling Traditional Open

Keera Allendorf, Susan E. Short, Nancy Luke, Hongwei Xu · 2025

Modernization theory posited gender ideology as a unidimensional continuum from “traditional” to egalitarian, with societies becoming more egalitarian as they progress. Recent research replaces this unidimensional view with multidimensiona…

Tackling Traditional: Tamil Gender Ideologies and their Socioeconomic Correlates Open

Keera Allendorf, Susan E. Short, Nancy Luke, Hongwei Xu · 2024

Modernization theory posed gender ideology as a unidimensional continuum ranging from “traditional” to egalitarian with egalitarianism increasing as societies progress. Recent research replaces a unidimensional view with multidimensionalit…

Open Defecation, Livestock Ownership, and Child Nutritional Status in India Open

Nancy Luke, Yubraj Acharya, Marco Faytong‐Haro, Di Yang, Hongwei Xu , et al. · 2024

South Asian children are among the most severely malnourished worldwide. One prominent hypothesis is that open defecation in the local area exposes children to human fecal pathogens that can cause diarrhea and malnutrition. Much of the exi…

DYADIC EFFECTS ON DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS OF SPOUSE CAREGIVERS AND THEIR CARE RECIPIENTS: EVIDENCE FROM CHINA Open

Jinyu Liu, Yifan Lou, Lydia Li, Hongwei Xu, Zhenmei Zhang · 2022

Objectives The likelihood of providing care to a spouse in middle and older ages has increased as life expectancy increases, but knowledge about how the caregiver and care recipient influence each other’s mental health is limited. This stu…

Improving Anchoring Vignette Methodology in Health Surveys with Image Vignettes Open

Mengyao Hu, Sung-Hee Lee, Hongwei Xu, Roberto Melipillán, Jacqui Smith , et al. · 2022

The anchoring vignette method is designed to improve comparisons across population groups and adjust for differential item functioning (DIF). Vignette questions are brief descriptions of hypothetical persons for respondents to rate. Altho…

The use of a Cohort Size Shrinkage Index (CSSI) to quantify regional famine intensity during the Chinese famine of 1959-1961 Open

Chunyu Liu, Chihua Li, Hongwei Xu, Zhenwei Zhou, L. H. Lumey · 2021

The Cohort Size Shrinkage Index (CSSI) is the most widely used intensity measure in studies of the Chinese famine of 1959-1961. We examined requirements to construct a valid CSSI measure: reliable information on birth cohort size; a stable…

What doesn't kill you makes you “smarter”: The long-term association between exposure to epidemic and cognition Open

Sha Wen, Hong Zou, Hongwei Xu · 2021

Proximity to mother over the life course in the United States: Overall patterns and racial differences Open

HwaJung Choi, Robert F. Schoeni, Hongwei Xu, Adriana Reyes, Deena Thomas · 2021

Background: The spatial distance between children and parents substantially influences their lives, yet empirical evidence on life course patterns of child-parent proximity is sparse. Objective: The goal of this study is to i…

Women’s Political Leadership and Adult Health: Evidence from Rural and Urban China Open

Hongwei Xu, Nancy Luke, Susan E. Short · 2021

This study examined the role of women’s political leadership at the community level in China, a context that has experienced recent political and socioeconomic change and has a distinctive rural–urban divide. Drawing on longitudinal data f…

Estimating rural–urban disparities in self-rated health in China: Impact of choice of urban definition Open

Audrey Dorélien, Hongwei Xu · 2020

Objective: We use the 2014 China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), which includes anchoring vignettes, to provide an up-to-date assessment of rural-urban health disparities as measured by self-rated health (SRH) in China. Our analysis is…

Social Relationships in Early Life and Episodic Memory in Mid- and Late Life Open

Zhenmei Zhang, Hongwei Xu, Lydia Li, Jinyu Liu, S. Choi · 2020

Objectives This study examines the longitudinal relationships between retrospective reports of early-life social relationships (i.e., having good friends, parent–child relationship quality, and childhood neighborhood social cohesion) and e…

Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom? Open

John Logan, Andrew Foster, Hongwei Xu, Wenquan Zhang · 2020

Reports of rising income segregation in the United States have been brought into question by the observation that post-2000 estimates are upwardly biased because of a reduction in the sample sizes on which they are based. Recent studies ha…

Is Exposure to Epidemic Associated With Older Adults’ Health Behavior? Evidence From China’s 2002–2004 SARS Outbreak Open

Hong Zou, Sha Wen, Hongwei Xu · 2020

Objectives To determine whether exposure to an epidemic is associated with better health behaviors. Methods Using nationally representative survey data collected in 2011 and 2014, we identified middle-aged and older Chinese adults whose co…

Income Segregation: Up or Down, and for Whom? Open

John Logan, Andrew Foster, Wenquan Zhang, Hongwei Xu · 2020

Reports of rising income segregation have been brought into question by the observation that post-2000 estimates are upwardly biased due to a reduction in the sample sizes on which they are based. Recent studies have offered estimates of t…

Based on Environmental Management to Discuss the Effect of Food Service Businesses’ Social Responsibility on Environmental Performance Open

Chih-Hung Pai, Wen-Cheng Wang, Ching-Hwa YU, Hongwei Xu · 2020

When the public gets busy at work, a lot of people are used to eating out to solve the trouble with having meals. It therefore booms food service. Food service presents the responsibility to provide people with healthy food and environment…

Heterogeneous treatment effects on Children's cognitive/non-cognitive skills: A reevaluation of an influential early childhood intervention Open

Yu Xie, Christopher E. Near, Hongwei Xu, Xi Song · 2019

DEPRESSION AND HYPERTENSION AS RISK FACTORS OF CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS AMONG MIDDLE-AGED AND OLDER ADULTS IN CHINA Open

Lydia Li, Zhenmei Zhang, Hongwei Xu, Jinyu Liu · 2019

Objectives: 1) Examine effects of depression and hypertension on cardiovascular events (CV) in a two-year period. 2) Explore urban and rural differences Methods: Data from the first two waves of Chinese Health and Retirement Longitudinal S…

Models for Small Area Estimation for Census Tracts Open

John Logan, Cici Bauer, Jun Ke, Hongwei Xu, Fan Li · 2019

This study examines issues of Small Area Estimation that are raised by reliance on the American Community Survey (ACS), which reports tract‐level data based on much smaller samples than the decennial census long‐form that it replaced. We d…

Prevalence of left-handedness in China 2011: small-area estimates Open

Hongwei Xu · 2019

Nationally representative survey data and small-area estimation techniques are used to assess geographic prevalence of left-handedness in China 2011. Measures of individuals' handedness are self-reported dominant hand and hand grip strengt…

Does retirement affect alcohol expenditure? Evidence from urban Chinese older adults in 2002-2009 Open

Hong Zou, Bingjiang Luan, Kaizhi Yu, Hongwei Xu · 2018

Exploiting China’s mandatory retirement policy, we used fuzzy regression discontinuity design to estimate the effect of retirement on household alcohol expenditure among urban Chinese older adults ages 50–70. Drawing on data from the Urban…

Does widowhood affect cognitive function among Chinese older adults? Open

Zhenmei Zhang, Lydia Li, Hongwei Xu, Jinyu Liu · 2018

ASSOCIATIONS OF LEISURE ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION AND COGNITIVE CHANGE AMONG MIDDLE-AGE AND OLDER ADULTS IN CHINA Open

L Li, Hongwei Xu, Zhen Zhang, J Liu · 2018

Objectives. This study aims to examine whether cognitive change in mid- and later-life is associated with participation in specific types and variety of leisure activities in China. Further, we explore whether activity participation is mor…

THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY-LIFE SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION AMONG OLDER ADULTS IN CHINA Open

Zhen Zhang, Hongwei Xu, L Li, J Liu · 2018

Previous research has shown that childhood conditions have long-term effects on cognitive function in later life. We contribute to this literature by investigating the effects of early-life social relationships on cognitive function and co…

Physical and mental health of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren and great-grandparents Open

Hongwei Xu · 2018

Is Lying Contagious? Spatial Diffusion of High-Yield 'Satellites' during Chinaas Great Leap Forward Open

Hongwei Xu, Geng Tian · 2018

Research on the Reform of Hospital Salary System Based on Problem Orientation Open

Chenning Yao, Hongwei Xu, Jingyang Yuan, Xiaorong Fu, Jingwen Sun , et al. · 2018

The salary system is an important part of human resource management.It is related to the vital interests of employees and is the premise and key to improving work enthusiasm and professional identity.Based on the analysis of the problems e…

Early life exposure to China’s 1959–61 famine and midlife cognition Open

Hongwei Xu, Zhenmei Zhang, Lydia Li, Jinyu Liu · 2017

Severe nutritional deprivation during prenatal and postnatal periods has a lasting impact on cognitive performance in Chinese adults in their early 50s.

Prevalence of comorbidities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients Open

Honglei Yin, Shi-qi Yin, Qingyan Lin, Ying Xu, Hongwei Xu , et al. · 2017

COPD is associated with significantly higher comorbidities than in other diseases that should be taken into consideration in COPD control strategies.

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