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Zhenchao Qian

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Professor
Department of Sociology
The Ohio State University
346 Bricker Hall
190 North Oval Mall
Columbus, Ohio 43210
phone: 614-688-8612

Professor
Department of Sociology

  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1994


  • Research Interests: Dr. Qian's research focuses on family demography, race and ethnicity, and immigration.  His work centers on changes in mate selection patterns for married and cohabiting unions by couples' age, racial, and educational combination.  In other research, he examines changing racial identification among children born to interracial couples and compares socioeconomic patterns among immigrant groups in the United States.


  • Current Research: immigrants' union formation and assortative mating, the impact of individual characteristics and marriage market compositions on mate selection in marriage and cohabitation, racial identification of children born to couples of interracial marriage. Additional research includes fertility behaviors in rural China and changes and prospects of the Chinese family planning program.