Publications

My research agenda focuses on sociology of higher education and school to work transition. Specifically, my work examines research questions in curriculum, skills, and college fields of study.

• curriculum

  • 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 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

• skills

  • 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.
  • 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.

• field of study

  • 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 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 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.

• other

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