Research

My current research focuses on China’s economic transformation and entrepreneurship. My theoretic goal is integrating organizational perspectives and economic sociology by research on firm innovations and the evolution of organizational forms in the course of China’s marketization. In general, my major research topics have been evolving around behavioral concepts such as inertia, conformity, risk-taking and innovation, as is demonstrated in my recent publication on determinants of risky driving of NASCAR racers (with Bothner and Stuart, Administrative Science Quarterly 2007).

My methodological research has been concerned about selection bias both in survey and in analysis. With colleagues, I am writing how the effects of community contexts on survey response rates vary across survey modes: Census vs. General Social Survey. I also recently published a paper on how tobit regression has been misused in sociology in attempts to take care of selection process (Sociological Methods and Research 2007).

My interest in selection bias extends to the field of health and aging where I and my colleagues are examining cultural sources of bias in survey response to sensitive questions such as sexual health and functioning. We seek reasons and remedies for differential validity and reliability of health measures based on survey data, across culturally different population subgroups.

Publications

Bothner, Matthew S., Jeong-han Kang, and Toby E. Stuart. Forthcoming. “Competitive Crowding and Risk Taking in a Tournament.” Administrative Science Quarterly.

Glasser, Dale B., Culley C. Carson, Jeong-han Kang, and Edward O. Laumann. Forthcoming. “Prevalence of Storage and Voiding Symptoms Among Men Aged 40 Years and Older in a US Population-Based Study: Results From the Male Attitudes Regarding Sexual Health Study.” International Journal of Clinical Practice.

Kang, Jeong-han. 2007. “The Usefulness and Uselessness of the Decomposition of Tobit Coefficients.” Sociological Methods and Research 35 (4): 572-582.

Kim, Jibum, Jeong-han Kang, Min-Ah Lee, and Yongmo Lee. 2007. “Volunteering of Older People in Korea.” Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences62B: S69-S73.

Laumann, Edward O., Dale B. Glasser, Suzanne L. West, Culley C. Carson, Raymond C. Rosen, and Jeong-han Kang. 2007. "Prevalence and Correlates of Erectile Dysfunction by Race and Ethnicity Among Men Age 40 or Older in the United States: From the Male Attitudes Regarding Sexual Health Survey." Journal of Sexual Medicine 4: 57-65.

Laumann, Edward O., Anthony Paik, Dale B. Glasser, Jeong-han Kang, Tianfu Wang, Bernard Levinson, Edson Moreira, Alfredo Nicolosi, and Clive Gingell. 2006. “A Cross-National Study of Subjective Sexual Well-being among Older Women and Men: Findings from the Global Study of Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors.” Archives of Sexual Behavior 35: 145-161.

Kang, Jeong-han, Edward O. Laumann, Anthony Paik, and Dale B. Glasser. 2005. “Worldwide Prevalence and Correlates.” Pp 42-51 in Women's Sexual Function and Dysfunction: Study, Diagnosis and Treatment. Edited by Goldstein, I., C. Meston, S. Davis, and A. Traish. UK: Taylor and Francis.