Publications

My research agenda focuses on sociology of higher education and school to work transition. Specifically, my work examines research questions in curriculum (Han et al. 2023 PNAS), skills (Han 2025 APJE, Han 2020 Soc Perspectives, Fan and Han 2020 European Soc Rev), and college fields of study (Han 2020 Soc Perspectives, Han 2016 Soc Sci Rsch, among others). Works broadly related to social stratification appeared in major sociological outlets such as JMF, Dem Rsch, and Socius. Below, I list them in chronological order.

• Han and Cai (forth) Perceived Gender Egalitarian Progress in the Labor Market and Overeducation in China, Japan, and Taiwan. RSSM.

• Han et al (forth) Conceptual Recombination as a Distinctive Feature of Liberal Arts Curriculum. In The Liberal Arts Advantage: Measuring the Deeper Value. Arum, Courant,and Flaster (eds). University of Chicago Press.

• Han (2025) “Bright, Busy, But Doesn’t Go Extra Mile” How Conscientiousness and Agreeableness Get Translated into Smaller Academic Gains for Asian High School Students. Asian Pacific Journal of Education.

• Yao and Han (2024) Who earns the iron rice bowl? Major marketability and state sector jobs among college-educated workers in urban China. Chinese Journal of Sociology.

  • Interview by Faculti

• Han et al (2023) Interdisciplinary College Curriculum and Its Labor Market Implications. PNAS.

  • Media Coverage on Times Higher Education
  • Our Virtual Colloquium at U Michigan in 2021

• Han and Qian (2022) Assortative Mating Among College Graduates: Heterogeneity Across Fields of Study Marriage and Family Review.

• Han and Qian (2020) Concentration and dispersion: school-to-work linkages and their impact on occupational assortative mating The Social Science Journal.

• Han (2020) Reproducing the Working Class? Incongruence between the Valuation of Social-Emotional Skills in School and in the Labor Market. Sociological Perspectives.

• Fan and Han (2020) Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Health Benefits of Tertiary Education: What Are the Roles of the Skills Gap and the Earnings Gap? European Sociological Review.

• Melamed, Kalkhoff, Han and Li (2017) The Neural Bases of Status-Based Influence Socius.

• Casterline and Han (2017) Unrealized fertility: Fertility desires at the end of the reproductive career Demographic Research.

  • John’s Presidential Address at PAA, at around 20 min he discussed this paper.

• Han et al (2016) Gendered transitions to adulthood by college field of study in the United States Demographic Research.

• Han (2016) Staying in STEM or changing course: Do natives and immigrants pursue the path of least resistance?. Social Science Research.

• Han and Buchmann (2016) Aligning Science Achievement and STEM Expectations for College Success: A Comparative Study of Curricular Standardization RSF.

• Tumin, Han and Qian (2015) Estimates and Meanings of Marital Separation Journal of Marriage and Family.