Jianxuan Lei

Jianxuan Lei

Email: lei00035@umn.edu

2022

A Note on the Life Course Perspective in Sociology

18 minute read

This post contains my notes for Prof. Phyllis Moen’s doctoral seminar Topics in Life Course: Work and Well-Being in Turbulent Times at the University of Minnesota, Fall 2022. The seminar, in Phyllis’s own words, is to “adopt a gendered life course, stress process, intersectional approach” to “address the health and well-being implications of, and inequities around, the changing nature and culture of paid work, along with ongoing disparities around both paid work and unpaid family care work.”

Book Review - Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis by Nancy Fraser

7 minute read

Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (Fraser, 2013) is a collection of essays by Nancy Fraser from 1985 to 2010. The book, in Fraser’s own word, is to clarify the “struggles and wishes” of the second-wave feminism in the United States (p. 26). In doing so, Fraser sheds lights on a new pathway towards gender justice in the contemporary world. As Fraser is a political philosopher, the book proves to be mostly conceptual. The contents of the book are organized into three parts, corresponding to three distinct themes of the second-wave feminism: redistribution, recognition, and representation. The present book review follows a similar structure, as I will highlight the struggles and wishes around each of the three themes. I will also briefly discuss how Fraser’s work can inform future research on work and employment at the end of the review.

Simple Stata-to-LaTeX Tempaltes

1 minute read

Stata’s popular user-wrriten command estout/esttab is a powerful tool to export Stata output to other envrionments (csv, txt, word, and tex). Nevertheless, there are lots of details one need to remember to use esttab/estout to produce nice tables. Things become even more intimidating if one wishes to use Stata for analysis and LaTeX for writing, because of LaTeX’s plasticity and, therefore, complexity.

An Invitation to Industrial Relations

9 minute read

This post is a collection of literature in industrial relations (IR), as well as an introduction of IR-related work to readers from the outside. I will continuously update this collection and occasionally write brief reviews for important and interesting work in IR. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me via email.

Dummy out Categorical Variables in Stata

4 minute read

It is somewhat painful to produce a table of summary statistics for categorical variables in Stata. The issue is that the popular user-written package estout/esttab does not accept factor notations for summary statistics.