BOOKS

2020 Ma, Yingyi. Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese Undergraduates Succeed and Struggle in American Higher Education. Columbia University Press

2017 Ma, Yingyi and Martha A. Garcia-Murrilo. Editors. Understanding International
Students from Asia in American Universities Learning and Living Globalization.
Springer. (2019 Honorable mention of the Best Book Award from the Comparative and International Education Association, in the Study Abroad and International Students category.)

2022 Xin Zhao, Michael Kung, Krishna Bista, Yingyi Ma. Editors. Home and Abroad: International Student Experiences and Graduate Employability. STAR Scholars

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

2023 Ma, Yingyi and Ning Zhan “The Narratives of Freedom Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Edited by Guobin Yang, Narratives of COVID19 in China and the World: Technology, Society and Nations. Michigan State University Press
2022 Ma, Yingyi “Supporting Students: Chinese Educational Exchange to America.” Edited by Yawei Liu and Michael Cerny in Finding Firmer Ground: The Role of Higher Education in U.S.-China Relations. Carter Center Report.
2022 Ma, Yingyi and Chongmin Yang. “Stay or Return: That is the Question.” International Higher Education.
2021 Ma, Yingyi. “Educating the Elites: School Counselors as Education Nannies in Urban China.” Comparative Education Review Vol65(3): 493-512
2021 Ma, Yingyi and Shiyang Xiao*. “Math and Science Identity Change and Switching of STEM majors.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World
2021 Ma, Yingyi. “Will International Education in the U.S. Enter the Post-China Era?” K. Bista, R. M. Allen, & R. Y. Chan (eds.), Impacts of COVID-19 on international students and the future of student mobility. Routledge
2020 Ma, Yingyi and Ning Zhan*. “To Mask or Not to Mask Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: How Chinese Students in America Experience and Cope with Stigma.” Chinese Sociological Review: 1-26
2019 Ma, Yingyi. “Transnational Agents: Chinese International Students in America.” Page 59-70 in Osamah F Khalil (Ed.) United States Relations with China and Iran: Towards the Asian Century, London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2019 Ma, Yingyi et al “Beyond Normalization: A Roundtable Discussion on the Present and Future of Sino-American Relations.” Page 90-105 in Osamah FKhalil (Ed.) United States Relations with China and Iran: Towards the Asian Century, London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
2018 Ma, Yingyi and Amy Lutz. “Jumping on the STEM Train: Differences in High School Math and STEM College Degree Attainment between Children of Immigrants and Natives in the United States.” at Research in Sociology of Education. Volume 20 Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.129 – 154
2017 Ma, Yingyi and Yan Liu “Entry and Degree Attainment in STEM: The Intersection of  Gender and Race/Ethnicity.” Social Science 6(3), [89]. DOI: 10.3390/socsci6030089 Reprinted in Gender and STEM: Understanding Segregation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics by Maria Charles and Sarah Thebaud, MDPI publishing
2017 Ma, Yingyi. “Paradigm Shift: Learning is a Two-Way Street between American  Universities and Asian International Students” in Learning and Living Globalization: Understanding International Students from Asia in American Universities. Yingyi Ma and Martha A. Garcia-Murrilo. Editors. Springer. Page 1-11.
2017 Ma, Yingyi and Martha A. Garcia-Murrilo. “Conclusion” in Learning and Living Globalization: Understanding International Students from Asia in American Universities. Yingyi Ma and Martha A. Garcia-Murrilo. Editors. Springer. Page 267-272.
2016 Ma, Yingyi and Lifang Wang. “Fairness in Admission: Voices from Rural Female Students in Chinese Universities.” Frontiers of Education in China Vol 11 (1): 44-73
2015 Ma, Yingyi and Yan Liu. “Race in STEM Degree Attainment” Sociology Compass.9 (7) Page 609-618
2015 Ma, Yingyi. “Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side of the Pacific?” Context Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 34-39.American Sociological Association. Media Coverage of this paper has appeared in Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
2015 Ma, Yingyi and Yue Zhang. “Bamboo Ceiling.” Asian American Leadership: A Concise Reference Guide.
2015 Ma, Yingyi and Adrienne Lee Atterberry “Asian Americans in Selective Colleges and Universities.” Asian American Leadership: A Concise Reference Guide.
2014 Ma, Yingyi and Gokhan Savas. “Which is More Consequential for Income Disparity: Fields of Study or Institutional Selectivity” Review of Higher Education 37 (2): 221-247.
Media Coverage of this paper has appeared in CNN, NPR, USA Today, Insider Higher Ed, Education Week
2013 Ma, Yingyi and Gokhan Savas. “Gender Inequality: Returns to Educational Investments.” Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide. SAGE.
2013 Ma, Yingyi and Carrie Roseamelia. “Women in Math/Science.” Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide. SAGE.
2011 Ma, Yingyi. “Gender Differences in the Paths Leading to a STEM Baccalaureate.” Social Science Quarterly 92 (5): 1169-1190.
2011 Ma, Yingyi. “Math and Reading Achievement Gaps—New Insights to Old Problems.” Sociological Studies of Children and Youth 14: 51-74.
2011 Ma, Yingyi. “Chinese Rural Women in Agriculture and Urban Work.” American Review of China Studies 12(1): 1-12 (Lead Article).
2011Hao, Lingxin and Yingyi Ma. “Immigrant Youth in Postsecondary Education.” In The Immigrant Paradox in Children and Adolescents: Is Becoming American a Developmental Risk? Edited by Cynthia Garía Coll, and Amy Marks. American Psychological Association publishing: 275-296.
2011 Ma, Yingyi. “College Major Choice, Occupational Structure and Demographic Patterning by Gender, Race and Nativity.” The Social Science Journal 48 (1):112-129.
2010 Ma, Yingyi. “Model Minority, Model for Whom?–An Investigation of Asian American Students in Science/Engineering.” AAPI Nexus Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Policy, Practice & Community 8(1): 43-73.
2009 Ma, Yingyi. “Family Socioeconomic Status, Parental Involvement, and College Major Choices—Gender, Race/Ethnic, and Nativity Patterns.” Sociological Perspectives 52 (2):210-234.
2009 Ma, Yingyi. “Pre-College Influences and College Major Choice: Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Nativity Patterning.” Theory in Action, 2(2): 96-122.
2009 Ma, Yingyi. “The Chinese Women’s Movement: From State Control to Independent Global Participation.” Critical Half (the issue on Global Women’s Movements in Changing Societies) 7(1): 21-26.
2008 Ma, Yingyi. “Acculturation.” in Vincent N. Parrillo (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2021 Ma, Yingyi. “Is this the end of China’s American Education Craze?” Sixth Tone.
Ma, Yingyi. Foreword. Global Higher Education During COVID-19: Policy, Society, and Technology, Joshua S. McKeown, Krishna Bista, and Roy Y. Chan (Ed.) STAR Scholar Networks Publishing
2020 Ma, Yingyi. Book Review for Saving Face, by Angie Chung. American Journal
of Sociology 125 (3): 855-858
2020 Ma, Yingyi. “Academic Elites or Economic Elites.” Journal of International
Students 10 (3)
2020 Ma, Yingyi. “Chinese Students are Ambitious but Anxious.” University World News
2019 Ma, Yingyi. “China’s Education System Produces Stellar Test Scores, so Why do
600,000 Students Head Abroad to Study?” Washington Post
2019 Ma, Yingyi. “Are Western Universities Doing Enough for Their Chinese Students?” Times Higher Education
2014 Ma, Yingyi. “Being Chinese away from China.” Op-ed on China Daily
2014 Ma, Yingyi. “The Right Time to Study Abroad.” Op-ed piece on China Daily
2013 Ma, Yingyi. “Academic Integrity: A Key Cross-Cultural Issue for Chinese Students Overseas?”
2012 Ma, Yingyi. “Learning to be more like each other.” Op-ed published on China.org
2012 Ma, Yingyi. “Gaokao a rite of passage, not an end point.” Op-ed published on
China.org
2012 Ma, Yingyi. “Preparing for study abroad: not just test scores.” Op-ed published on
China.org
2006 Alexander, Karl, A. Estacion, C. Tracy and Yingyi Ma. “A Year in the Life of Sociology of Education: A View from the Inside.”  American Sociological Association.