Xie, Yu. 1992. "The Log-Multiplicative Layer Effect Model for Comparing Mobility Tables." American Sociological Review 57:380-395. (doi:10.2307/2096242)
Xie, Yu and Ellen Efron Pimentel. 1992. "Age Patterns of Marital Fertility: Revising the Coale-Trussell Method." Journal of the American Statistical Association 87:977-984. (doi:10.2307/2290634)
Xie, Yu. 1994. "Log-Multiplicative Models for Discrete-Time, Discrete-Covariate Event-History Data." pp. 301–340 in Sociological Methodology, edited by Peter Marsden. Washington, D.C.: The American Sociological Association.
Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie. 2000. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis. New York: Academic Press.
Xie, Yu and Xiaogang Wu. 2005. "Market Premium, Social Process, and Statisticism." American Sociological Review 70:865-870. (doi:10.1177/000312240507000508)
Xie, Yu. 2007. "Otis Dudley Duncan’s Legacy: the Demographic Approach to Quantitative Reasoning in Social Science." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 25:141-156. (doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2007.05.006 )
Brand, Jennie and Yu Xie. 2007. "Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects with Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes." Sociological Methodology 37:393-434. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2007.00185.x)
Powers, Daniel A. and Yu Xie. 2008. Statistical Methods for Categorical Data Analysis, Second Edition. Howard House, England: Emerald.
Zeng, Zhen and Yu Xie. 2008. "A Preference-Opportunity-Choice Framework with Applications to Intergroup Friendship." American Journal of Sociology 114: 615-648.
Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. 2010. "Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education." 'American Sociological Review 75:273–302. (doi:10.1177/0003122410363567) PMCID: PMC2865163
Xie, Yu, and Xiang Zhou. 2012. "Modeling Individual-level Heterogeneity in Racial Residential Segregation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 109 (29): 11646–11651. (doi:10.1073/pnas.1202218109).
Xie, Yu, Jennie Brand, and Ben Jann. 2012. "Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data." Sociological Methodology 42:314–347. (DOI: 10.1177/0081175012452652). NIHMSID: NIHMS404680
Cheng, Siwei and Yu Xie. 2013. "Structural Effects of Size on Interracial Friendship." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (doi:10.1073/pnas.1303748110).
Xie, Yu and Kimberly Goyette. 1997. "The Racial Identification of Biracial Children With One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census." Social Forces 76:547-570. (doi:10.2307/2580724)
Goyette, Kimberly and Yu Xie. 1999. "Educational Expectations of Asian-American Youth: Determinants and Ethnic Differences." Sociology of Education 72:22-36. (doi:10.2307/2673184)
Mouw, Theodore and Yu Xie. 1999. "Bilingualism and the Academic Achievement of First- and Second-Generation Asian Americans: Accommodation with or without Assimilation?" American Sociological Review 64:232-252. (doi:10.2307/2657529)
Xie, Yu, and Kimberly Goyette. 2003. "Social Mobility and the Educational Choices of Asian Americans." Social Science Research 32:467-498. (doi:10.10 16/S0049-089X(03)00018-8)
Xie, Yu and Kimberly Goyette. 2004. A Demographic Portrait of Asian Americans. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Population Reference Bureau.
Zeng, Zhen and Yu Xie. 2004. "Asian Americans’ Earnings Disadvantage Reexamined: The Role of Place of Education." American Journal of Sociology 109:1075-1108. (doi:10.1086/381914)
Greenman, Emily and Yu Xie. 2008. "Is Assimilation Theory Dead? The Effect of Assimilation on Adolescent Well-Being." Social Science Research 37: 109-137. (doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.07.003 )
Brand, Jennie, and Yu Xie. 2010. "Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education." American Sociological Review 75:273–302. (doi:10.1177/0003122410363567) PMCID: PMC2865163
Xie, Yu, and Alexandra A. Killewald. Forthcoming. "Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Britain and the U.S. Since 1850: Comment." American Economic Review. NIHMSID: NIHMS440166.