Research Interests 

• Methods: Network Analysis; Causal Inference; Bayesian Analysis

• Applications: Inequality and Social Policy; Health; Organizations

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

• An, Weihua and Shawn Bauldry. 2022. Methodological Advances in Quantitative Social Science. The Social Science Research 50th Anniversary Series (Volumes 107, 108, 109, and 110).

• An, Weihua. 2021. New Quantitative Approaches to Studying Social Inequality. Sociological Methods and Research 50(3).

• An, Weihua, Matthew Brashears, and Cathryn Johnson. 2020. Social Networks and Social Psychology. Social Psychology Quarterly 83(4).

Network Analysis

• An, Weihua. 2022. "Comparing Egocentric and Sociocentric Centrality Measures in Directed Networks."  Sociological Methods and Research. (Forthcoming) [Replication]

• An, Weihua, Roberson Beauvile, and Benjamin Rosche. 2022. "Causal Network Analysis." Annual Review of Sociology 48: 23-41.

• An, Weihua. 2022. "You Said, They Said: A Framework on Informant Accuracy with Application to Studying Self-Reports and Peer-Reports." Social Networks 70: 187-197. 

• An, Weihua. 2022. "Friendship Network Formation in Chinese Middle Schools: Patterns of Inequality and Homophily." Social Networks 68: 218-228.

• An, Weihua. 2021. "A Tale of Twin-Dependence: A New Multivariate Regression Model and an FGLS Estimator for Analyzing Outcomes with Network Dependence." Sociological Methods and Research. (Forthcoming)

• An, Weihua. 2016. "Fitting ERGMs on Big Networks." Social Science Research 59: 107-119. (Special issue on Big Data in the Social Sciences)

• An, Weihua. 2016. "On the Directionality Test of Peer Effects in Social Networks." Sociological Methods and Research 45(4): 635-650.

• An, Weihua and Yu-Hsin Liu. 2016. "keyplayer: An R package for Locating Key Players in Social Networks." The R Journal 8(1): 257-268.

• An, Weihua. 2015. "Instrumental Variables Estimates of Peer Effects in Social Networks." Social Science Research 50: 382-394.

• An, Weihua. 2015. "Multilevel Meta Network Analysis with Application to Studying Network Dynamics of Network Interventions." Social Networks 43: 48-56.

• An, Weihua and Long Doan. 2015. "Health Surveillance through Social Networks." Social Networks  42: 8-17.

• An, Weihua and Sam Schramski. 2015. "Analysis of Contested Reports in Exchange Networks Based on Actors' Credibility." Social Networks 40: 25-33.

• An, Weihua and William McConnell. 2015. "The Origins of Asymmetric Ties in Friendship Networks: From Status Differential to Self-perceived Centrality." Network Science 3(2): 269-292.

• An, Weihua. 2011. "Models and Methods to Identify Peer Effects." Pp. 514-532 in The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis, edited by John Scott and Peter J. Carrington. London: The Sage Publications. (Invited Paper)

Causal Inference

• An, Weihua and Tyler J. VanderWeele. 2022. "Opening the Blackbox of Treatment Interference: Tracing Treatment Diffusion through Network Analysis." Sociological Methods and Research 51(1): 141–164.

• An, Weihua and Adam Glynn. 2021. "Treatment Effect Deviation as an Alternative to Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Studying Social Inequality." Sociological Methods and Research 50(3): 1006-1033.

• An, Weihua. 2018. "Causal Inference with Networked Treatment Diffusion." Sociological Methodology 48: 152-181.

• An, Weihua and Ying Ding. 2018. "The Landscape of Causal Inference: Perspective from Citation Network Analysis." The American Statistician 72(3): 265-277.

• An, Weihua and Christopher Winship. 2017. "Causal Inference in Panel Data with Application to Estimating Race-of-Interviewer Effects in the General Social Survey." Sociological Methods and Research 46(1): 68-102. (Special issue on General Social Survey, edited by Michael Hout)

• An, Weihua and Xuefu Wang. 2016. "LARF: Instrumental Variable Estimation of Causal Effects through Local Average Response Functions." Journal of Statistical Software 71(1): 1-13.

• VanderWeele, Tyler J. and Weihua An. 2013. "Social Networks and Causal Inference."  Pp. 353-374 in Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, edited by Stephen Morgan. New York: Springer. (Invited Paper)

• An, Weihua. 2010. "Bayesian Propensity Score Estimators: Incorporating Uncertainties in Propensity Scores into Causal Inference." Sociological Methodology 40: 151-189.

Inequality and Social Policy

• Browne, Irene, Weihua An, Daniel Auguste, and Natalie D. Deckard. 2023. "Race, State Surveillance, and Policy Spillover: Do Restrictive Immigration Policies Affect Citizen Earnings?” Social Forces. (Forthcoming)

• An, Weihua and Bruce Western. 2019. "Social Capital in the Creation of Cultural Capital: Family Structure, Neighborhood Cohesion, and Extracurricular Participation." Social Science Research 81: 192-208.

• An, Weihua and Maoliang Ye. 2017. "Mind the Gap: Disparity in Redistributive Preference between Political Elites and the Public in China."  European Journal of Political Economy 50: 75-91.

• An, Weihua and Yesola Kweon. 2017. "Do Higher Government Wages Induce Less Corruption? Cross-Country Panel Evidence."  Journal of Policy Modeling 39(5): 809-826. 

• Yuan, Yue and Weihua An. 2017. "Context, Network, and Adolescent Perceived Risk." Social Science Research 62: 378-393.

• Desmond, Matthew and Weihua An. 2015. "Neighborhood and Network Disadvantage among Urban Renters." Sociological Science 2: 329-350.

• Desmond, Matthew, Weihua An, Richelle Winkler, and Thomas Ferriss. 2013. "Evicting Children."  Social Forces 92(1): 303-327.

Essays

• An, Weihua and Shawn Bauldry. 2022. "Methodological Advances in Quantitative Social Science: In Celebration of the Social Science Research 50th Anniversary." Social Science Research 110. (Introduction to the Special Series)

• An, Weihua. 2021. "Fear Not Scarcity but Inequality, Not Poverty but Instability." Sociological Methods and Research 50(3): 939-943. (Introduction to the Special Issue)

• An, Weihua, Matthew Brashears, and Cathryn Johnson. 2020. "The Nearness between Us, and the Space within Ourselves." Social Psychology Quarterly 83(4): 315–318. (Introduction to the Special Issue)

Software and Code (>130K Downloads)

• An, Weihua. 2023. "DIDMatch: Combing Difference-in-Difference and Matching for Robust Causal Inference in Panel Data Analysis." Stata Code. (Forthcoming)

• An, Weihua. 2021. "fglsnet: A Feasible Generalized Least Squares Estimator for Regression Analysis of Outcomes with Network Dependence." An R package available on CRAN. [6K Downloads]

• An, Weihua and Yu-Hsin Liu. 2015. "keyplayer: Locating Key Players in Social Networks." An R package available on CRAN. [29K Downloads]

• An, Weihua. 2014. "Credibility: Addressing Contested Reports in Exchange Networks Based on Actors' Credibility." R code to implement the methods proposed in An and Schramski (2015).

• An, Weihua and Xuefu Wang. 2013. "LARF: Local Average Response Functions for Instrumental Variable Estimation of Treatment Effects."  An R package available on CRAN. [62K Downloads]

• An, Weihua, Huizi Xu, and Zhida Zheng. 2013. "IUPS: Incorporating Uncertainties in Propensity Scores." An R package available on CRAN. [33K Downloads]