Areas of Focus
- Inequality
- Education
- Culture and Religion
- Social Research Methods
Academic Background & Achievements
- Ph.D. in Sociology: Purdue University
- Vice Dean of Graduate School, Fudan University
- Chairman of the Cultural Sociology Branch of the Chinese Sociological Association
- Leading Talent in Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ten Thousand Talents Program
- Young Changjiang Scholar
- Shanghai Leading Talent
Publications
- Applied Statistical Causal Inference, Anning Hu, 2020
- Substantive Identity and Schema Association: A Sociological Analysis of Cultural Mechanisms, Anning Hu, 2022
- Text-based Social Science Research: From Content Analysis to Algorithm Models, Anning Hu, 2022
- Cultural Capital: What is Culture, What is Capital? - Theoretical Analysis and Unfinished Issues, Anning Hu, 2022
- How to Avoid the Trap of 'Decorative Sociology' in the Cultural Turn of Sociology?, Anning Hu, 2021
- Analysis of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity - Opportunities and Challenges Brought by Machine Learning Methods, Anning Hu, Xiaogang Wu, Yunsong Chen, 2021
- Cultural Transmission from a Sociological Perspective: A Practice-Cognitive Schema-Oriented Analytical Framework, Anning Hu, 2020
- Social Prediction: A New Research Paradigm Based on Machine Learning, Yunsong Chen, Xiaogang Wu, Anning Hu, Guangye He, Guodong Ju, 2020
- Explaining Subjective Variables with Subjective Variables: Methodological Analysis, Anning Hu, 2019
- Differential Pattern, How Different, How Ordered? - An Exploratory Study on the Empirical Measurement of Differential Pattern, Anning Hu, 2018
- Diverse Support of Children to Parents in the Context of Aging: Concepts and Behaviors, Anning Hu, 2017
- The 'Uncertainty' Problem of Statistical Models and the Propensity Score Method, Anning Hu, 2017
- Chinese Public's Perception of Income Fairness: An Explanation from New Institutional Sociology, Xin Liu, Anning Hu, 2016
- Can Education Make Us Healthier? - A Comparative Analysis of Urban and Rural Areas Based on the 2010 China General Social Survey, Anning Hu, 2014
- Faith Capital: A Study on the Charitable Donation Behavior of Wenzhou Private Entrepreneurs, Yi Zhou, Anning Hu, 2014
- Cross-departmental Differences and Mediation Mechanisms of General Trust Patterns: A Study Based on the 2010 China General Social Survey, Yi Zhou, Anning Hu, 2013
- Revisiting the Negative Effects of Confucian Culture on General Trust - An Examination Based on the 2007 China Residents Survey, Yi Zhou, Anning Hu, 2013
- Propensity Score Matching and Causal Inference: A Methodological Review, Anning Hu, 2012
- Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Analysis for Social Scientists: A Review, Anning Hu, 2023
- Cultural Reproduction and Cultural Mobility from a Comparative Perspective: Mechanism-based Elaboration and Decomposition, Anning Hu, Xiaogang Wu, Dongyu Li, Tao Chen, 2022
- Cultural Capital and Elite University Attendance in China, Anning Hu, Xiaogang Wu, 2021
- Changing Subjective Wellbeing across the College Life: Survey Evidence from China, Anning Hu, Xiaogang Wu, Tao Chen, 2021
- Outward Specific Trust in the Balancing of Hierarchical Government Trust: Evidence from Mainland China, Anning Hu, 2021
- Are Elders from Ancestor-Worshipping Families Better Supported? An Exploratory Study of Post-Reform China, Anning Hu, Dongyu Li, 2021
- Can Greater Reliance on Test Scores Ameliorate the Association between Family Background and Access to Post-Collegiate Education? Survey Evidence from the Beijing College Students Panel Survey, Anning Hu, Grace Kao, Xiaogang Wu, 2020
- Parental Education and College Students’ Attitudes toward Love: Survey Evidence from China, Anning Hu, Xiaogang Wu, 2019
- Allocation of Eldercare Responsibilities between Children and the Government in China: Does the Sense of Injustice Matter?, Anning Hu, Feinian Chen, 2019
- Science or Liberal Arts? Family Background, Cultural Capital, and College Major Choice in China, Anning Hu, Xiaogang Wu, 2019
- Radius of Trust: Gradient-based Conceptualization and Measurement, Anning Hu, 2017
- Changing Perceived Importance of Religion in Mainland China, 1990 – 2012: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis, Anning Hu, 2017
- Providing More but Receiving Less: Daughters in Intergenerational Exchange in Mainland China, Anning Hu, 2017
- On the Relationship between Subjective Inequality and Generalized Trust, Anning Hu, 2017
- Does Higher Education Expansion Promote Educational Homogamy? Evidence from Married Couples of the Post-80s Generation in Shanghai, China, Anning Hu, Zhenchao Qian, 2016
- Ancestor Worship in Contemporary China: An Empirical Investigation, Anning Hu, 2016
- Evaluating Educational Inequality within Educational Expansion: A Formal Comparison between Odds Ratio and the Educational Gini Coefficient, Anning Hu, 2015
- Where Do STEM Majors Lose Their Advantage? Contextualizing Horizontal Stratification of Higher Education in Urban China, Anning Hu, Jacob Hibel, 2015
- Educational Homogamy and Earnings Inequality of Married Couples: Urban China, 1988-2007, Anning Hu, Zhenchao Qian, 2015
- Economic Consequences of Horizontal Stratification in Postsecondary Education: Evidence from Urban China, Anning Hu, Nicholas Vargas, 2015
- A Loosening Tray of Sand? Age, Period, and Cohort Effects on Generalized Trust in Reform-Era China, 1990-2007, Anning Hu, 2015
- Intergenerational Religious Mobility in Contemporary China, Anning Hu, Reid Leamaster, 2015
- The Changing Happiness-Enhancing Effect of a College Degree under Higher Education Expansion: Evidence from China, Anning Hu, 2015
- Changes in College Attainment and the Economic Returns to a College Degree in Urban China, 2003-2010: Implications for Social Equality, Anning Hu, Jacob Hibel, 2014
