Working Papers

Work in progress and papers under review, with replication files when available.

2026

  1. Under review
    The Color of Activity Space: Redlining and the Racial Segregation of Everyday Places
    Wenhao Jiang and Yongjun Zhang
    2026
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In the Pipeline

  1. Revise & resubmit
    The Color of Activity Space: Redlining and the Racial Segregation of Everyday Places
    Wenhao Jiang and Yongjun Zhang (equal authorship)
    Revised manuscript resubmitted to Demography.
  2. Revising after review
    The Growing Geographic Affinity Between High- and Low-Paying Occupations
    Wenhao Jiang and Siwei Cheng (equal authorship)
    Revising after a journal rejection for submission elsewhere.
  3. Revising after review
    Bad Health, Bad Jobs, But for Whom? Health Status, Gender, and Sorting Into Precarious Work
    Linsey Edwards and Wenhao Jiang (equal authorship)
    Revising after a journal rejection for submission elsewhere.
  4. Drafting
    Economic Crisis and the Discipline of Work Time
    Wenhao Jiang
    Complete draft; available upon request.
  5. Drafting
    Detection of Social Interaction through Images
    Bruce Yue Yu, Wenhao Jiang (equal authorship), and Siwei Cheng
    Fine-tuning a vision-language model on 12,000 annotated photo pairs; methods draft in progress.
  6. Drafting
    Who Pays for Shareholder Power? Governance Votes, Index Funds, and Precarious Work Schedules
    Jake Burchard, Wenhao Jiang (equal authorship), and Alejandro Sarria
    Analysis complete; full manuscript draft in progress.
  7. Drafting
    When Work (Dis)connects: Occupational Exposure in American Workplaces and Neighborhoods, 2000–2024
    Siwei Cheng and Wenhao Jiang (equal authorship)
    Manuscript draft in progress.
  8. Data collection
    Who Talks to Whom? Segregation in Informal Interactions at Academic Conferences as a Particular Workplace
    Siwei Cheng and Wenhao Jiang (equal authorship)
    Applying the image-based interaction detector to conference photographs.
  9. Conception
    Housing Status and Hiring: A Correspondence Audit of Homelessness
    Wenhao Jiang and Jerry Eiswerth
    Funding letter of inquiry drafted; survey pretest and IRB protocol in preparation.