謝宇(1959年10月12日—),男,江蘇省鎮江市人,華人社會學家,美國普林斯頓大學社會學系與普林斯頓國際與區域研究中心教授、美國國家科學院院士、中央研究院院士。[1][2]。近些年,他致力於在中國推廣實證的社會學研究,2009年開始擔任北京大學「長江學者」講座教授,2011年擔任該校「千人計劃」講座教授。同時還是上海大學、香港科技大學、中國人民大學、香港中文大學的榮譽教授。
謝宇1959年出生於江蘇鎮江,是家中兩個兒子中的老二。他的父母都是醫生。謝宇的早年教育受到文化大革命的影響,上學較遲,他的家庭也在文化大革命中遭受迫害。文化大革命結束後,他進入了上海工業大學(現為上海大學),學習冶金工程,1982年獲得了工學學士學位。隨後他到美國進入威斯康辛大學學習,於1984年獲得了科學史碩士學位(M.S.)和社會學碩士學位(M.A.),並於1989獲得了該校社會學博士學位(Ph.D.)。獲得博士學位後,謝宇進入密歇根大學,任助理教授,1994年升任副教授,1996年升任教授。他在1997年加入美國國籍。
謝宇主要研究領域有統計方法、社會分層、人口學、科學社會學、中國研究等。他的學術論文發表在《美國社會學雜誌》、《美國社會學評論》、《人口統計學》、《社會力量》、《社會學方法》 、《美國經濟學評論》、《美國國家科學院院刊》、《美國統計協會雜誌》等期刊上。[3]
謝宇開發了一系列用於分類數據分析的統計程序,特別是他所開發的對數相乘層階效應模型(log-multiplicative layer-effect model)已經被廣泛應用於比較(歷史或國際政治)分析表格分析中。他也把這個模型拓展到生育率研究的Coale-Trussell方法和歷史事件分析的研究中。他與丹尼爾·A.鮑威斯合著的教科書 《分類數據分析的統計方法》,在統一框架下系統性的介紹了數據分類分析的各種方法,已經成為社會科學研究方法的重要參考書籍。他近期關於方法的研究包括友誼選擇中離散選擇模型、基於觀測數據的因果推斷和人口的異質性。
- Xie, Yu. 1992. "The Log-Multiplicative Layer Effect Model for Comparing Mobility Tables." American Sociological Review 57:380-395. (doi:10.2307/2096242)
- Xie, Yu and Ellen Efron Pimentel. 1992. "Age Patterns of Marital Fertility: Revising the Coale-Trussell Method." Journal of the American Statistical Association 87:977-984. (doi:10.2307/2290634)
- Xie, Yu. 1994. "Log-Multiplicative Models for Discrete-Time, Discrete-Covariate Event-History Data." pp. 301–340 in Sociological Methodology, edited by Peter Marsden. Washington, D.C.: The American Sociological Association.
- Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie. 2000. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis. New York: Academic Press.
- Xie, Yu and Xiaogang Wu. 2005. "Market Premium, Social Process, and Statisticism." American Sociological Review 70:865-870. (doi:10.1177/000312240507000508)
- Xie, Yu. 2007. "Otis Dudley Duncan’s Legacy: the Demographic Approach to Quantitative Reasoning in Social Science." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25:141-156. (doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2007.05.006 )
- Brand, Jennie and Yu Xie. 2007. "Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects with Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes." Sociological Methodology 37:393-434. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2007.00185.x)
- Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie. 2008. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis, Second Edition. Howard House, England: Emerald.
- Zeng, Zhen and Yu Xie. 2008. "A Preference-Opportunity-Choice Framework with Applications to Intergroup Friendship." American Journal of Sociology 114: 615-648.
- Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. 2010. "Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education." 'American Sociological Review 75:273–302. (doi:10.1177/0003122410363567) PMCID: PMC2865163
- Xie, Yu, and Xiang Zhou. 2012. "Modeling Individual-level Heterogeneity in Racial Residential Segregation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 109 (29): 11646–11651. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1202218109).
- Xie, Yu, Jennie Brand, and Ben Jann. 2012. "Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data." Sociological Methodology 42:314–347. (DOI: 10.1177/0081175012452652). NIHMSID: NIHMS404680
- Cheng, Siwei and Yu Xie. 2013. "Structural Effects of Size on Interracial Friendship." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (doi:10.1073/pnas.1303748110).
謝宇對社會分層的研究做出了巨大的貢獻。特別是他對美國移民的研究,為美國移民在教育、職位、收入、健康和家庭等各方面提供了重要的實證知識。比如,雖然亞裔美國人在通過教育改變經濟社會地位方面很突出,但他們所受教育能得到回報仍然取決於他們在哪裏受教育,那些在美國以外受教育的人在收入仍偏低。在以調查數據為基礎寫就的專著《美國亞裔的人口統計描述》中,謝宇與合作者Kimberly Goyette系統的描述了亞裔美國人與其他族裔群體社會經濟地位方面的不同,同時描述了亞裔美國人這個族群中的異質性。在於Jennie Brand合作的研究中,謝宇指出那些最不可能進入大學的人,一旦進入大學會從大學教育中獲取經濟利益。他近期與Alexandra Killewald的研究駁斥了Ferrie的觀點,後者認為從十九世紀開始美國的社會流動性已經顯著降低。
- Xie, Yu and Kimberly Goyette. 1997. "The Racial Identification of Biracial Children With One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census." Social Forces 76:547-570. (doi:10.2307/2580724)
- Goyette, Kimberly and Yu Xie. 1999. "Educational Expectations of Asian-American Youth: Determinants and Ethnic Differences." Sociology of Education 72:22-36. (doi:10.2307/2673184)
- Mouw, Theodore and Yu Xie. 1999. "Bilingualism and the Academic Achievement of First- and Second-Generation Asian Americans: Accommodation with or without Assimilation?" American Sociological Review 64:232-252. (doi:10.2307/2657529)
- Xie, Yu, and Kimberly Goyette. 2003. "Social Mobility and the Educational Choices of Asian Americans." Social Science Research 32:467-498. (doi:10.10 16/S0049-089X(03)00018-8)
- Xie, Yu and Kimberly Goyette. 2004. A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau.
- Zeng, Zhen and Yu Xie. 2004. "Asian Americans』 Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined: The Role of Place of Education." American Journal of Sociology 109:1075-1108. (doi:10.1086/381914)
- Greenman, Emily and Yu Xie. 2008. "Is Assimilation Theory Dead? The Effect of Assimilation on Adolescent Well-Being." Social Science Research 37: 109-137. (doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.07.003 )
- Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. 2010. "Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education." American Sociological Review 75:273–302. (doi:10.1177/0003122410363567) PMCID: PMC2865163
- Xie, Yu, and Alexandra A. Killewald. Forthcoming. "Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850: Comment." American Economic Review. NIHMSID: NIHMS440166.
- Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie. 2000. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis. New York: Academic Press.
- Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie. 2008. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis, Second Edition. Howard House, England: Emerald.
- 中文版: 《分類數據分析的統計方法》(第2版),北京: 社會科學文獻出版社, 2009.
- Xie, Yu and Kimberlee A. Shauman. 2003. Women in Science: Career Processes and Outcomes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
- Reviewed in Science (2003), Nature (2004), Choice (2004), and Contemporary Sociology (2005).
- 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title.
- Xie, Yu and Kimberly Goyette. 2004. A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau.
- Scott, Jacqueline L. and Yu Xie (editors). 2005. Quantitative Social Science, Sage Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. London: Sage.
- 謝宇,《社會學方法與定量研究》北京:社會科學文獻出版社,2006.
- Thornton, Arland, William Axinn, and Yu Xie. 2007. Marriage and Cohabitation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- 2008 Outstanding Publication Award of the Section on Aging and the Life Course of the American Sociological Association.
- Xie, Yu (Editor). 2007. Sociological Methodology Vol. 37. Washington D.C.: American Sociological Association.
- Xie, Yu (Editor). 2008. Sociological Methodology Vol. 38. Washington D.C.: American Sociological Association.
- Xie, Yu (Editor). 2009. Sociological Methodology Vol. 39. Washington D.C.: American Sociological Association.
- 謝宇,《回歸分析》,北京:社會科學文獻出版社,2010.
- Xie, Yu and Alexandra A. Killewald. 2012. Is American Science in Decline? Harvard University Press.