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Parenting and Inequality

Li, Angran. 2024. “Parenting Approaches, Parental Involvement, and Academic Achievement in US Elementary Schools.” British Journal of sociology of Education 455):798-819.

Li, Angran, Simon Cheng, and Todd E. Vachon. 2023. “Too Much of a Good Thing? Testing the Curvilinear Relationship between Parental Involvement and Student Outcomes in Elementary School.” Social Forces 101(3):1230-1257.

Li, Angran. 2023. “The Marketization of Educational Resources and Individual Choice: Examining the Heterogeneous Treatment Effect of Private Tutoring in Middle Schools.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 9(2):250-282.

Li, Angran, and Daniel Hamlin. 2019. “Is Daily Parental Help with Homework Helpful? Reanalyzing National Data Using a Propensity Score-based Approach.” Sociology of Education 92(4):367-85.

Hamlin, Daniel, and Angran Li. 2019. “The Relationship between Parent Volunteering in School and School Safety in Disadvantaged Urban Neighborhoods.” Journal of School Violence 19(3):362-376.

Li, Angran, and Mary J. Fischer. 2017. “Advantaged/Disadvantaged School Neighborhoods, Parental Networks, and Parental Involvement at Elementary School.” Sociology of Education 90(4):355-77.

Beliefs, Values, and Meritocracy

Tang, Minghao, Angran Li, and Xiaogang Wu. 2025. “Meritocratic Myth in Mind? Socioeconomic Backgrounds and Shifting Beliefs about Meritocracy among College Students in China.” Sociology of Education.

Li, Angran, and Anning Hu. 2021. “Community Contexts, Socioeconomic Status, and Meritocratic Beliefs and Perceptions in China.” Chinese Journal of Sociology 7(3):470-493.

Li, Angran. 2019. “Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Meritocracy? Academic Ability and China’s Urban-Rural Gap in Access to Higher Education.” Chinese Sociological Review 51(2):115-46.