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PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
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  • Wang, Yiwen, Katherine Alexander, Caroline Wolski, Bridget Gorman, and Rachel Kimbro. 2026. “Keys to the Future: How Gender and Sexuality Jointly Shape Parental Financial Support for Home Ownership.” Socius.

  • Umberson, Debra, Sara Mernitz, Hye Won Chai, Yiwen Wang, and Charlotte Perez. 2026. “How Aging Same-Sex and Different-Sex Spouses Influence Each Other’s Health Behaviors: Change Over a Six-Year Period.” Research on Aging.

  • Wang, Yiwen. 2026. “End-of-Life Planning in Aging Same-Sex and Different-Sex Married Couples.” Research on Aging.

  • Coffey, Diane, Yiwen Wang, and Aashish Gupta. 2026. “A Gender Gap in Happiness: Documenting a Puzzle from Indian Survey Data.” Asian Population Studies 22(1): 86–101.

  • Wang, Yiwen, and Hui Liu. 2025. “Marital Quality and Daily Memory Among Aging Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 80(10).

  • Wang, Yiwen, Hye Won Chai, Debra Umberson, and Sara Mernitz. 2025. “The Gendered Sexual Experiences and Marital Quality of Middle-Aged Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples.” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 54(4), 1427-1440.

  • Wang, Yiwen. 2024. “Who’s Worried? Memory, Worries About Dementia, and Marital Strain in Midlife Same- and Different-Sex Marriages: A Dyadic Perspective.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79(8).

  • Wang, Yiwen, and Hui Liu. 2024. “A National Longitudinal Study of Same-Sex Partnership and Self-Rated Health Trajectories.” Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health.

  • Wang, Yiwen, and Debra Umberson. 2023. “Dyadic Coping and Marital Quality in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages.” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40(3), 996–1017.

  • Wang, Yiwen. 2022. “Marital Stress, Childhood Adversity, and Emotion Work in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Marriages.” Journal of Family Studies, 29(4), 1666-1686.

  • Wang, Yiwen. 2022. “Self-Rated Health Changes of Individuals in Same-Sex Compared to Different-Sex Relationships: A Longitudinal Study.” BMC Public Health, 22(1), 862.

PEER-REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
  • Wang, Yiwen, and Hui Liu. 2025. “Sexual Orientation and Health Behavior.” Pp. 251-265 in Handbook of Social Epidemiology, edited by T. Hill, T. Chandola, and G. Garcia-Alexander. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter.

  • Chai, Hye Won, Yiwen Wang, Sara E. Mernitz, Daniel A. Powers, and Debra J. Umberson. 2025. “Correlates of Longitudinal Change in Sexual Motives Among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples in Mid to Later Life.” Pp. 239–62 in Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality, edited by A. K. Baumle and Z. Oyarvide Tuthill. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

  • Wang, Yiwen, and Debra J. Umberson. 2024. “Long-Term Same-Sex Couples.” In The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ+ Studies, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc.

  • Wang, Yiwen, and Daniel A. Powers. 2020. “Conditional Logit Model.” In Sage Research Methods Foundations, edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, and Richard A. Williams. London: SAGE Publications Ltd.

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