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Ph.D., Columbia University (with Distinction)
M.A., Peking (Beijing) University
B.A., China Youth University for Political Sciences
Tel: 212-636-6638
Email:
aqigao@fordham.edu
Address: 113 West 60th Street, New York, NY 10023
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
International Social and Economic Development
International Program and Impact Evaluation
Poverty, Inequality, Social Policies, and Economic and Subjective Well-being
The Chinese Social Welfare System in Transition
Comparative Research across Asian Countries and Asian Ethnic Groups
Rural-to-Urban Migration and Asian American Immigrants
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
2014- Professor, Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
2014- Academic Board Member, China Institute for Income Distribution, Beijing Normal University
2012- Research Associate, Columbia University Population Research Center
2014-2016 Public Intellectual Fellow, National Committee on United States-China Relations
Spring 2014 Visiting Scholar, India China Institute, New School University
2010-2014 Associate Professor,
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
2005-2010 Assistant Professor,
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
Fall 2009 Visiting
Scholar, Columbia University
Population Research Center and
Weatherhead East Asian
Institute
PUBLICATIONS
Book:
Gao, Q. (2016). Welfare, Work and Poverty: China's Social Assistance 20 Years After. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles:
Gao, Q. & Rickne, J. (2015). Inequality in social insurance participation and generosity: Do firm characteristics matter? Social Policy & Administration. In press.
Gao, Q. & Zhai, F. (2015). Public assistance, economic prospect, and happiness in urban China. Social Indicators Research. DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1174-4.
Gao, Q., Yang, S. & Li, S. (2015). Welfare, targeting, and anti-poverty effectiveness: The case of urban China. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 56, 30-42.
Gao, Q., Ying, Q. & Luo, D. (2015). Hidden income and occupational background: Evidence from Guangzhou. Journal of Contemporary China, 24(94), 721-741.
Gao, Q., Wu, S. & Zhai, F. (2015). Welfare participation and time use in China. Social Indicators Research, 124, 863-887.
Yang, S., Gao, Q. & Li, S. (2015). Targeting and anti-poverty performance of the Minimum Livelihood Guarantee program in urban China. Studies in Labor Economics, 3(3). (in Chinese)
Gao, Q., Zhai, F. Yang, S. & Li, S. (2014). Does welfare enable family expenditures on human capital? Evidence from China. World Development, 64: 219-231.
Gao, Q. & Rickne, J. (2014). Firm ownership and social insurance inequality in transitional China: Evidence from a large panel of firm data. European Journal of Social Security, 16(1): 2-25. Winner of Best Paper Prize, awarded to the best paper presented at the 20th Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) conference.
Gao, Q. (2013). Public assistance and poverty reduction: The case of Shanghai. Global Social Policy, 13(2): 193-215.
Gao, Q., Yang, S. & Li, S. (2013). The Chinese welfare state in transition: 1988-2007. Journal of Social Policy, 42(4): 743-762.
Yang, S., Gao, Q. & Li, S. (2013). Social welfare system and income distribution in China: 1988-2007. Economic Theory and Business Management, 2013(3): 29-38. (in Chinese)
Gao, Q., Yang, S. & Li, S. (2012). Labor contracts and social insurance participation among migrant workers in China. China Economic Review, 23(4): 1195-1205.
Gao, Q. & Zhai, F. (2012). Anti-poverty family policies in China: A critical evaluation. Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 6(1): 122-135.
Gao, Q., Yoo, J.Y., Yang, S., & Zhai, F. (2011). Welfare residualism: A comparative study of the basic livelihood security systems in China and South Korea. International Journal of Social Welfare, 20(2): 113-124.
Gao, Q.
(2010). Redistributive nature of the Chinese social benefit system:
Progressive or regressive? The China Quarterly, 201(1):
1-19.
Gao, Q.,
Zhai, F. & Garfinkel, I. (2010). How does public assistance affect
family expenditures? The case of urban China. World Development,
38(7), 989-1000.
Gao, Q.
& Zhai, F. (2010). Demographic changes and household income in urban
China: 1988-2002. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 3(1), 18-36.
Zhai, F. & Gao, Q.
(2010). Center-based care in the context
of the one-child policy in China: Do child gender and siblings matter? Population Research and Policy Review, 29(5), 745-774.
Zhai, F., Raver, C., Jones,
S., Li-Grining, C., Pressler, E., & Gao, Q. (2010). Dosage
effects of classroom-based interventions on school readiness: Evidence
from a randomized experiment in Head Start settings. Social Service
Review, 84(4), 709-711.
Gao, Q., Garfinkel, I.
& Zhai, F. (2009). Anti-poverty
effectiveness of the Minimum Living Standard Assistance policy in urban
China. Review of Income and Wealth, 55(s1): 630-655.
Zhai, F. & Gao, Q.
(2009). Child maltreatment among Asian Americans: Characteristics and
explanatory framework. Child Maltreatment, 14(2): 207-224.
Gao, Q.
(2008). The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition:
Reforms and Impacts on Income Inequality. Annals of the New York
Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1136: 342-347.
Zhai, F. & Gao, Q.
(2008). Center-Based Early Childhood Education and Care in China:
Policies, Trends, and Implications. Asian Social Work and Policy
Review, 2(3): 127-148.
Kaushal, N., Gao,
Q., & Waldfogel, J. (2007). Welfare reform and family expenditures:
How are single mothers adapting to the new welfare and work regime? Social Service Review, 81(3),
369-396. Winner of the 2008 Frank R.
Breul Memorial Prize, awarded to the best article published in Social
Service Review in 2007, and One of the Top 20 Articles of 2008 in
the Annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family
Research competition.
Lewis, C., Garfinkel,
I. & Gao, Q. (2007). Incarceration and unwed fathers in fragile
families. Journal of Sociology & Social
Welfare, 34(3), 77-94.
Rich, L., Garfinkel,
I. & Gao, Q. (2007). Child support enforcement policy and
unmarried fathers’ employment in the underground and regular economies. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26(4),
765-784.
Gao, Q.
(2006). The social benefit system in urban China: Reforms and trends
from 1988 to 2002. Journal of East Asian Studies, 6(1),
31-67.
Peer-reviewed Book Chapters:
Gao, Q.,
Evans, M. & Garfinkel, I. (2013). Cash transfers and income
inequality in post-socialist China and Vietnam. In Baehler, K. &
Besharov, D. (eds.), Chinese Social Policy in a
Time of Transition. Oxford University Press.
Gao, Q.
& Riskin, C. (2013). Generosity and participation: Variations in
urban China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee policy. In Kennedy, D. &
Stiglitz, J. E. (eds.), Law and Economics with Chinese
Characteristics: Institutions for Promoting Development in the 21st
Century. Oxford University Press.
Gao, Q., Garfinkel, I.
& Zhai, F. (2011). Anti-poverty
effectiveness of the Minimum Living Standard Assistance policy in urban
China. Chinese
version of the paper in Review of Income and Wealth (2009)
published in Xu, X., Li, S., Wu, X., & Yue, X. (eds.), Productivity
and Income Distribution: Macro Accounting and Micro measurement.
Beijing, China: Beijing University Press.
Kaushal, N. &
Gao, Q.
(2011). Food Stamp program and consumption choices in low-educated
single mother families. In Grossman, M. (ed.),
Economic Aspects of
Obesity,
University of Chicago Press.
Riskin, C. &
Gao, Q.
(2010). The changing nature of urban poverty in China. In Anand, S.,
Segal, P. & Stiglitz, J. E. (eds.),
Debates in the
Measurement of Global Poverty.
Oxford University Press.
Gao, Q.
& Riskin, C. (2009). Market versus social benefits: Explaining China’s
changing income inequality. In Davis, D. & Wang, F. (eds.), Creating
Wealth and Poverty in Postsocialist China. Stanford University
Press.
Gao, Q.,
Kaushal, N., & Waldfogel, J. (2009). How have expansions in the Earned
Income Tax Credit affected family expenditures? In Ziliak, J. (ed.),
Ten Years after: Evaluating the Long-Term Effects of Welfare Reform on
Children, Families, Welfare, and Work. Cambridge University Press.
Gao, Q.
(2008). Social benefits in urban China: Determinants and impacts on
income inequality in 1988 and 2002. In Wan, G. (ed.),
Understanding Inequality and Poverty
in China: Methods and Applications.
Palgrave Macmillan.
GRANTS
2014-2016 Lois and Samuel Silberman Fund Faculty Grant, “Cultural Values, Childrearing Practices, and Child Maltreatment among Asian Immigrant Families in Hawaii.” Co-Principal Investigator. Principal Investigator: Jing Guo at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Co-Principal Investigator: Fuhua Zhai at Fordham University.
2013-2014 Fordham University Faculty Fellowship, “Child Maltreatment among Asian Americans: Risk and Protective Factors.” Principal Investigator.
2012-2013 Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Scholar Grant, “Social Policy, Poverty, and Income Inequality in China: From 2002 to 2007.” Principal Investigator. Co-Investigator: Shi Li.
2012-2013 Fordham University Faculty Research Grant, “Sources and Distribution of Hidden Income in China: Evidence from Guangzhou.” Principal Investigator.
2009-2012 Lois and Samuel Silberman Fund
Faculty Grant Program, “Cultural Values, Childrearing Practices, and Child Maltreatment among Asian Americans in
New York City.” Principal Investigator. Co-Investigator: Fuhua Zhai.
2009-2012 Fahs-Beck Fund for Research and Experimentation
Faculty Research Grant Program, “Cultural
Values, Childrearing Practices, and Child Maltreatment among Asian
Americans in New York City.” Principal Investigator. Co-Investigator:
Fuhua Zhai.
2009-2010 Global Public Policy Network, “Social Benefits
and Income Inequality in Post-Socialist China and Vietnam.” Principal Investigator. Co-Investigators:
Martin Evans and Irwin Garfinkel.
2009-2010 Fordham University Faculty Fellowship, “How Does
Public Assistance Affect Family Expenditures and Happiness? The Case of Urban China.” Principal
Investigator.
2008-2009 Fordham
University Faculty Research Grant, “Anti-Poverty Effectiveness of
the Minimum Living Standard Assistance Policy in Urban China.” Principal
Investigator.
2007-2008 Chiang
Ching-Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Junior Scholar
Grant, “The Chinese Social Benefit System in Transition: Impacts and
Implications for Future Reforms.” Principal Investigator.
2007-2008 Horowitz
Foundation Social Policy Award, “The Chinese Social Benefit
System in Transition: Size, Domains, and Redistributive Effects.”
Principal Investigator.
2007-2008
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Young Investigator
Development Grant, “The Earned Income Tax Credit, Family
Expenditures, and Child Well-being.” Principal Investigator.
2006-2007 Fordham
University Faculty Research Grant, “Reforming the Chinese Social
Benefit System: Transitions, Impacts, and Policy Implications.”
Principal Investigator.
HONORS AND
AWARDS
10/2013 Winner of Best Paper Prize, paper on social insurance inequality in urban China presented at the 20th Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS) conference (with co-author Johanna Rickne).
05/2012 Funded-Research Scholar Award, Fordham University, sole winner in the social sciences for outstanding contributions to the University and its mission through externally funded research.
06/2011 Invited Speaker, United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Expert Group Meeting on “Assessing family policies: Confronting family poverty and social exclusion & ensuring work-family balance”
06/2009 One of the Top 20 Articles of 2008 in the Annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research competition, awarded to an article published in Social Service Review in 2007
12/2008
Emerging Social Work Leader Award, National Association of Social
Workers – New York City Chapter
2007-2008 Invited
Participant, University of Manchester Brooks World Poverty Institute and
Columbia University Initiative for Policy Dialogue China Task Force
FEATURED IN
MEDIA
“Qin Gao on China: As
Sleeping Giant Awakes, Social Problems Loom.”
Inside Fordham, March 31, 2008.
“Fordham and China Forge Lasting Partnerships.” Inside Fordham, January 14, 2013
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