ZHOU (Joe) YU portrait
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies, Family And Consumer Studies
  • Associate Director of Asia Center, Asian Studies Program
  • Associate Professor, Family And Consumer Studies
  • Faculty Affiliate, Asian Studies Program
801-585-0437

Publications

  • Yu, Z., & Fan, J. X. (2024). Migrant Status and Consumer Financial Fraud in China: A Two-Stage Approach Using a Representative Household Survey. Sage Open, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241257048. Published, 05/31/2024.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241257048
  • Xuming Shangguan & Gengyan Shi and Zhou Yu (2024). ESG Performance and Enterprise Value in China: A Novel Approach via a Regulated Intermediary Model. MDPI. Vol. 16(8). Published, 04/12/2024.
    https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/8/3247
  • Mike Haan & Mike Haan, Stephanie Cheng, and Zhou Yu (2022). Leaving Home Ain’t Easy: The Timing and Pathways of Young Immigrants’ Home-Leaving Transitions. Canadian Review of Sociology. Published, 12/30/2022.
  • Xianhong Qin & Xianhong Qin; Yehua Dennis Wei; Zhou Yu; Ning Xiong (2022). Urbanization, Suburbanization, and Population Redistribution in Urban China: A Case Study of Nanjing. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. Published, 11/16/2022.
  • Zhou Yu & Zhou Yu, Mike Haan and Chengdong Yi (2022). Zhou Yu, Mike Haan and Chengdong Yi. International Journal of Urban Sciences. Published, 03/22/2022.
  • Jessie Fan & Zhou Yu (2021). Prevalence and Risk Factors of Consumer Financial Fraud in China. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. Published, 08/24/2021.
  • Michael Haan & Zhou Yu and Elena Draghicia (2021). Cohort Progress toward Household Formation and Homeownership: A Comparison of Immigrant Visible Minority Groups in Canada and the United States. Housing Policy Debate. Published, 06/29/2021.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/105114...
  • Jessie Fan (2021). Understanding Aging and Consumer Fraud Victimization in the Chinese Context: A Two-Stage Conceptual Approach. Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect. Vol. 33. Published, 06/20/2021.
  • Zhou Yu (2020). Homeownership Attainment of Adult Children in Urban China: Parental Attributes and Financial Support. Housing Studies. Published, 01/20/2020.
  • Jiawei Yu (2019). Changing distribution of the floating population and its determinants in urban China: Economic transition, public policy and amenity. Habitat International. Published, 04/10/2019.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/...
  • Juan Lin & Zhou Yu, Dennis Wei, Mingfeng Wang (2017). Internet access, spillover and regional development in China. Sustainability. Published, 06/03/2017.
    https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/6/946
  • Zhou Yu (2017). Macro effects on the household formation of China's young adults – demographics, institutional factors, and regional differences. International Journal of Housing Policy. 512-540. Published, 01/19/2017.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/194912...
  • "Immigrant Housing-Growing Demand and Increasing Uncertainty." edited by Xiaoshuo Hou, Blackwell Encyclopediaof Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, Wiley-Blackwell,. Published, 09/2015.
  • "Chapter 3. Cohort Progress toward Household Formation and Homeownership: A Comparison of Immigrant Racialized Minority Groups in Canada and the United States" by Mike Haan and Zhou Yu, in The housing and economic experiences of immigrants in US and Canadian cities edited by Carlos Teixeira and Wei Li, University of Toronto Press,. Published, 01/2015.
    https://books.google.com/books?id=FtjTBgAAQBAJ&pg=...
  • "Caught in the Housing Bubble: Immigrants' Housing Outcomes in Traditional Gateways and Newly Emerging Destinations" in Urban Studies Volume 51 Issue 4, March 2014. Published, 02/08/2014.
    http://usj.sagepub.com/content/51/4/781
  • "Cohort Progress toward Household Formation and Homeownership: Young Immigrant Cohorts in Los Angeles and Toronto Compared." with Michael Haan, Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2011. Published, 01/2011.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0141987...
  • “Misleading Comparisons of Homeownership Rates When the Variable Effect of Household Formation is Ignored: Explaining Rising Homeownership and the Homeownership Gap between Blacks and Asians.” Zhou Yu and Dowell Myers, v. 47 (12), 2615-2640, Urban Studies. Published, 05/2010.
    http://usj.sagepub.com/content/47/12/2615.short
  • “Immigrants and housing markets in mid-size metropolitan areas.” Gary Painter and Zhou Yu, in International Migration Review v.44, 442-476 (equal authorship). Published, 03/2010.
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-...
  • “Assimilation and Rising Taiwanese Identity: Taiwan-born Immigrants in the United States, 1990-2000.” Zhou Yu and Lan-hong Nora Chiang, in Journal of Population Studies, Vol 38, pp. 115-160, 2009. Published, 06/2009.
    http://www.psc.ntu.edu.tw/outline/e_paper/pop38/92...
  • “Leaving Gateway Metropolitan Areas: Immigrants and the Housing Market.” Gary Painter and Zhou Yu, in Urban Studies, V.45 (5-6), 1163-1191, 2008 (equal authorship). Published, 05/2008.
    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/004209...

Presentations

  • Housing Attainment of Young Adults in China in International Association for China Planning. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 12/2020.
  • Homeownership Attainment of Adult Children in Urban China: Parental Attributes and Financial Support . Conference Paper, Presented, 04/30/2019.
  • “Parental Attributes and Financial Support: The Housing Attainment of Adult Children in Contemporary Urban China” July 5-7, 2018, CHFS conference, Chengdu, Sichuan. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/05/2018.
  • Intergenerational Transfer of Income and Housing Attainment: Young Adults in Contemporary China in A Decent Home for All: International Symposium on Housing in China . Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 07/05/2018.
  • “Internal Migration of the Foreign-born in the U.S.” 05/2018, PAA2018, Denver, CO. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/02/2018.
  • “Immigration to the United States and Canada’s Spatial Mismatch and Policy Impact.” Michael Haan and Zhou Yu, 05/2018, PAA 2018, Denver, CO . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/02/2018.
  • Two Wild Cards in Changing Demographics and Housing Demand—The Millennial Generation and Immigration. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/18/2017.
  • Three Sources of Data for Social Science Research in China. Presentation, Presented, 09/27/2017.
  • Household Formation and Housing Attainment and Household Formation and Housing Consumption in Transitional China: Demographic, Economic, and Institutional Factors. Poster, Presented, 05/01/2017.
  • Convergence or Divergence among China’s Two Largest Generations during Housing Reform—Household Formation and Housing Attainment. Poster, Accepted, 12/2016.
  • "Household Formation in Urban China: Age, Migration, and Institution" in Urban China Research Network Conference in Xi’an. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/2016.
  • "Are We Really Better Off With Higher Homeownership? Growing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Household Mortgage Debt Burden Since 1980" APPAM conference . Poster, Presented, 11/2013.
  • Changing determinants of homeownership in China. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2013.
  • Caught in the Housing Bubble: Immigrants' Housing Outcomes in Traditional Gateways and Newly Emerging Destinations. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2012.
  • The Interaction of Culture and Context among Ethno-Racial Groups in the Housing Markets of Canada and the United States: Differences in the Gateway City Effect across Groups and Countries. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2012.
  • Caught in the Housing Bubble: Immigrants' Housing Outcomes in Traditional Gateways and Newly Emerging Destinations. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/2011.
  • Determinants of household formation among China's post 1970 generation— demographics, economic determinants, institutional factors and regional disparities." International Conference on Urban China. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/2011.
  • Is Generation Y a New 'Lost Generation' in the Aftermath of the Great Recession? Immigration, Household Formation, Homeownership, and Future Housing Demand. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2011.
  • "Cohort Progress toward Household Formation and Homeownership: Young Immigrant Cohorts in Los Angeles and Toronto Compared." with Michael Haan, Population Association of America Annual Meeting 2010, Dallas, TX . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/2010.
  • “Misleading Comparisons of Homeownership Rates When the Variable Effect of Household Formation is Ignored: Explaining Rising Homeownership and the Homeownership Gap between Blacks and Asian.” with Dowell Myers, ACSP 2009, Washington DC . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/2009.
  • “Identity Formation among Taiwan immigrants in the U.S.: Assimilation vs. Rising Bentu Identity.” with Lan-hong Nora Chiang, AAG 2009, Las Vegas . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2009.
  • “Diverging trajectories of immigrant residential assimilation, 2000-2006: homeownership attainment and household formation.” PAA 2008, New Orleans . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2008.
  • "How have immigrants adapted to the housing markets of mid-size metropolitan areas in the U.S.?” with Gary Painter, PAA 2008, New Orleans . Poster, Presented, 03/2008.
  • "Pace and Trajectory of Immigrants toward Homeownership: Variable Rates of Translating Human Capital into Residential Integration from 1970 to 2000" with Dowell Myers. PAA 2007, New York . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2007.
  • “Has homeownership been inflated? Declining household formation and hidden renter distress” with Dowell Myers, Utah State University, Logan . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/2006.
  • “Homeownership and Residential Overcrowding of Immigrant Migrants: Southern California as a Stepping Stone for Assimilation?” PAA 2006, Los Angeles . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2006.
  • “Leaving Gateway Metropolitan Areas: Immigrants and the Housing Market.” with Gary Painter, 2005, AREUEA Annual Conference, Boston, MA . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/2006.

Research Groups

  • Zachary Zimmer et. al., Other. IPIA. 06/2008 - present.

Languages

  • English, fluent.
  • Mandarin Chinese, fluent.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • United States of America
  • China
  • Taiwan
  • Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China