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Leafia Zi Ye

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Verified email at utoronto.ca
Cited by 71

All wealth is not created equal: Race, parental net worth, and children's achievement

JA Conwell, LZ Ye - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the …, 2021 - rsfjournal.org
Using data from the children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 cohort,
spanning 1986 to 2014, we investigated whether White, Black, and Hispanic children whose …

The immigrant health differential in the context of racial and ethnic disparities: the case of diabetes

M Engelman, LZ Ye - Immigration and Health, 2019 - emerald.com
Social and economic disparities between racial/ethnic groups are a feature of the American
context into which immigrants are incorporated and a key determinant of population health. …

Uncovering themes in personalized learning: Using natural language processing to analyze school interviews

D McHugh, S Shaw, TR Moore, LZ Ye… - Journal of Research …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Using a natural language processing tool, this study examined participant discourse in
personalized learning schools to better understand what personalized learning looks like in …

A Life Course Perspective on US Immigrants' Socioeconomic Integration

LZ Ye - 2023 - search.proquest.com
… ’ Socioeconomic Integration By Leafia Zi Ye A dissertation submitted in partial f … By Leafia
Zi Ye … I would like to thank my parents, Ye Feng and Zhang Ping. They gave everything they …

Mobility, Stagnation, or Attrition? Diverse Earning Trajectories in a Cohort of Foreign‐born Men

LZ Ye, M Engelman - Population and Development Review, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers and policymakers frequently debate about the integration of immigrants into
the US economy. These debates are often based on limited data that do not capture the …

Immigrant status and the social returns to academic achievement in adolescence

LZ Ye, J Fletcher - Journal of ethnic and migration studies, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Social scientists have long debated whether high-achieving students of color are socially
sanctioned. This discussion has rarely focused on immigrant students, who are exceptionally …

US Immigrants Have Highly Heterogeneous Perceptions of How Selected They Are on Health

LZ Ye, AR Santos-Lozada - Socius, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Leafia Zi Ye is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a
research trainee at the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Center for Demography …

GRMF19-01: Nativity and the Exposure to Poverty in Later Life

L Zi Ye - 2019 - minds.wisconsin.edu
Despite a large volume of studies on immigrants’ economic incorporation, most studies
have focused on foreign-born adults at prime working age and paid little attention to those …

Latent Cumulative Disadvantage: US Immigrants' Reversed Economic Assimilation in Later Life

LZ Ye - Social Forces, 2024 - academic.oup.com
One of the most salient findings in research on immigration has been that immigrants experience
substantial economic mobility as they accumulate more years in the host-society labor …

[HTML][HTML] US immigrant men's earning trajectories vary by country of origin

L Ye, M Engelman - niussp.org
Leafia Ye and Michal Engelman show that those who came from several countries in Asia
… In a recent study (Ye and Engelman 2020), we show instead that immigrant men’s earning …