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4440 Social Sciences Building
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706

608-262-4436 (office)
608-467-4361 (home)
zzeng@ssc.wisc.edu


Biography
  

I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My main areas of research include social stratification, marriage and family, immigration, friendship choice, and race relations. My work has been published at American Journal of Sociology and Social Science Research. Currently, I am working on a project that examines the exchange of social origin and educational attainment in marriage.

Peer Reviewed Publication
  

Zeng, Z. and Y. Xie. 2004. "Asian-Americans' Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined: the Role of Place of Education." American Journal of Sociology 109(5):1075-108. [view]

Zeng, Z. and Y. Xie. 2008. "A Preference-Opportunity Framework of Choice with Applications to Intergroup Friendship." American Journal of Sociology. 114(3):615-648. [view]

Zeng. Z. 2011. "The Myth of the Glass Ceiling: Evidence from a Stock-Flow Analysis of Authority Attainment." Social Science Research 40(1):312-325. [view]


Manuscripts Under Review
  

Zeng. Z. 2011. "Mapping Social Distances: An Analysis of Adolescent Interracial Friendships." Revise & Resubmit at Social Science Research [view]

Zeng, Z. and Y. Xie. 2011. "The Effects of Grandparents on Children's Schooling: Evidence from Rural China." Under review at Demography. [view]


Manuscripts Under Preparation (contact me for copies)
  

Zeng, Z. "The Contextual Determinants of Racial Boundaries in Adolescent Friendship."

Zeng, Z. "The Earnings Assimilation of Asian Immigrants: A Longitudinal Analysis."

Zeng, Z. "Stability or Change: Personality Development in Late Midlife."

Zeng, Z. "Gender Differences in Occupational Attainment: A Study of the Completed Work History of a Birth Cohort."

Zeng, Z. "Human Capital Investment and Immigrant Economic Assimilation."

Zeng, Z., C. R. Schwartz, and Y. Xie. "Marrying Up by Marrying Down: Status Exchange between Social Origin and Education in the United States."


Course Syllabi
  

Soc 357: Methods of Sociological Inquiry [view]

Soc 496: Contemporary Issues of Immigration [view]

 
Last update: November, 2011