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Muzhi Zhou

@jomuzhi.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor@HKUST(GZ); family+life course+digital inequality; all views my own

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Muzhi Zhou @jomuzhi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can AI truly inspire "love"? In a new paper, we rely on Symbolic interactionism and Goffman’s framework of interaction as performance theories to argue for the anthropomorphism paradox in human-AI intimacy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Muzhi Zhou @jomuzhi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When 41% of partnered Hong Kong women wanted fewer than 2 children in 2022, if they could start all over again- a jump from 26.0% (1997)- what is going on? Our new research digs into the drivers. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The vanishing two-child ideals in Hong Kong over 1997–2022
During 1997–2022, Hong Kong’s mean ideal family size (MIFS) declined from 1.8 to to 1.47 amid rising living costs and major social, economic, and political shifts. So far, little research has inves...
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Asjad Naqvi @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
🚀 "ntwrk": A Stata package for network analysis 🚀 ⭐ Yesterday at the @statacorp.bsky.social Germany 2026 conference in Munich, I showcased the #ntwrk package: github.com/asjadnaqvi/s... The package is a designed for both network analysis and graph layouts. Check it out! Up soon SSC.
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Muzhi Zhou @jomuzhi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
How to people feel financially when having children? Our new work finds big detrimental effects on people’s financial wellbeing, larger for women driven by the much larger impact on their employment, larger when children are very young and teenagers. See doi.org/10.1111/jomf...
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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Objective We aim to examine how experiences of parenthood influence subjective financial well-being, particularly in the context of rising economic uncertainties and the pressures of intensive paren.....
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Muzhi Zhou @jomuzhi.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
What do 219k TikTok and Douyin comments reveal about childbirth/rearing in East Asia? From intense anti-natalist individualism in China to systemic frustrations over rigid gender roles and crushing childrearing costs and economic anxieties. Read the open-access paper: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...
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Unpacking Discourses on Childbirth and Parenthood in Popular Social Media Platforms Across China, Japan, and South Korea | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social ...
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Demographic Research @demresjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Language proficiency is a crucial factor in migrant integration. This paper provides new insights into a society marked by a dual-language system during the transitional period of hukou reform. #China #migration #integration #languageproficiency www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...
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Muzhi Zhou @jomuzhi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
When Hukou becomes less important, what's next? New work with one of my students from Shanghai! It is fun to see how daily observations inspire the student and the research!
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 02/12/2025
What if every family stops having children as soon as they have a boy? Would the sex ratio end up skewed one way or the other? This is what it would look like for 25 random families following that rule (with a normal male/female sex ratio of 105/100.) /1
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Man-yee Kan @manyeekan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
How can time-use data help us better understand gender inequalities? Our latest article in Sociology Compass answers this question — have a look! dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4... Yucheng Wu, Muzhi Zhou #timeuse
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Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions
Research on the gender revolution highlights the slowing convergence between men and women in paid and unpaid work time. This review considers both seminal studies from the 2000s and more recent anal....
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