
Affiliation
tjcai@um.edu.mo
Tel
+853 8822 8841
Office
Rm.3007, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (E21)
Department of Sociology, University of Macau
Taipa, Macau SAR, China
Consultation Hours
Tuesday 10am to 12pm
Thursday 3 to 4 pm
or by appointment
Personal Website
Tianji CAI 蔡天驥
Associate Professor
Academic Qualifications
2010 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sociology
2006 M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sociology
2004 M.A. Peking University, Demography, China
2001 B.A. Lanzhou University, Sociology, China
Research Interests
Data Mining
Quantitative Methods
Health Behavior
Gene and Environment Interplay
Teaching Areas
Data Mining
Quantitative Methods
Health Behavior
Gene and Environment Interplay
Publications
Tang, Ruoyang, and Tianji Cai*. (2020) .“Smuggling of Drugs by Body Packing: Evidence from Chinese Sentencing Documents”, International Journal of Drug Policy, 78, (Forthcoming) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102732
Niño, Michael*, and Tianji Cai. (2020). “Timing of Parental Incarceration and Allostatic Load: A Developmental Life Course Approach”, Annals of Epidemiology , 43,18-24 (Forthcoming) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.02.002
Li, Fumin, Yisu Zhou, and Tianji Cai* (2019). “Trails of Data: Three Cases for Collecting Web Information for Social Science Research”, Social Science Computer Review (Forthcoming) https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439319886019.
Xia, Yiwei., Yisu Zhou, & Tianji Cai*. (2019). gidm: A command for generalized inflated discrete models. The Stata Journal, 19(3), 698–718. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867X19874246
Xie, Liyi, Xuhui Bao, Tianji Cai, Susan G. Silva, Jinli Ma, Zhen Zhang, Xiaomao Guo*, & Lawrence B. Marks. “Elevated risk of radiotherapy-associated second malignant neoplasms in young African American women with breast cancer”, International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics (forthcoming), DOI:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2019.06.010
Xia, Yiwei,Yisu Zhou, Li Du, and Tianji Cai*. “Mapping Trafficking of Women in China: Evidence from Court Sentences”, Journal of Contemporary China (forthcoming), DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2019.1637564.
Xin, Yanyu, and Tianji Cai* (2019). “Paying Money for Freedom: Effects of Monetary Compensation on Sentencing for Criminal Traffic Accident Offenses in China”, Journal of Quantitative Criminology,DOI: 10.1007/s10940-019-09409-w.
Xia, Yiwei, Tianji Cai*, and Hua Zhong (2019). “Effect of Judges’ Gender on Rape Sentencing: A Data Mining Approach to Analyze Judgment Documents”, The China Review, 19(2), 125-149. Q2 32/68 in Area Studies
Xin, Yanyu, and Tianji Cai* (2019). “Child Trafficking in China: Evidence from Sentencing Documents”, International Journal of Population Studies, , 4(2):1-10. DOI: 10.18063/ijps.v4i2.817.
Wang, Hongyu*, Tianji Cai, Yanyu Xin, and Baichao Chen (2019). “The Effects of Previous and Current Instrumental Involvement and Expressive Involvement on Online Political Participation among Chinese College Students”, Sociological Inquiry, 89(2), 214-238. DOI: 10.1111/soin.12252.
Cai, Tianji*, Li Du, Yanyu Xin and Lennon Chang (2018). “Characteristics of cybercrimes: evidence from Chinese judgment documents”, Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 19(6), 582-595, DOI: 10.1080/15614263.2018.1507895
Wang, Hongyu*, Tianji Cai and Guangchao Charles Feng (2018). “Media exposure and Chinese college students’ attitudes toward China’s maritime claims and disputes in the South and East China Seas”, 4:1482995 Cogent Social Sciences (OASS),4(1), 1-15. DOI: 10.1080/23311886.2018.1482995
Cai, Tianji*, Yiwei Xia, and Yisu Zhou (2018). “Generalized Inflated Discrete Models: A Strategy to Work with Multimodal Discrete Distributions”, Sociological Methods & Research, DOI: 10.1177/0049124118782535 (Forthcoming).
Cai, Tianji*, Yiwei Xia (2018). “Estimating size of drug users in Macau: an open population capture-recapture model with data augmentation using public registration data”, Asian Journal of Criminology, 13(3), 193-206. DOI: 10.1007/s11417-018-9266-0.
Cai, Tianji, Yisu Zhou*, Michael Niño, and Nichola Driver (2018). “The School Contextual Effect of Sexual Debut on Sexual Risk-Taking: A Joint Parameter Approach”, Journal of School Health, 88(3): 200-207.
Cai, Tianji*, and Hongyu Wang. (2018). “Comparing weighting methods for non-response in the HKPSSD survey and the BCSPS”, Chinese Sociological Review, 50(1): 1-26.
Niño, Michael D.*, Tianji Cai, Xochitl Mota-back, and Joseph Comeau (2017). “Gender differences in trajectories of alcohol use from ages 13 to 33 across Latina/o ethnic groups”, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 180: 113-120.
Wang, Hongyu*, Tianji Cai, Yi Mou, and Shifa Yong. (2017). “Traditional resources, Internet Resources and Youth Online Political Participation: the Resource Theory Revisited in the Chinese Context”, Chinese Sociological Review, 49(3): 1-22.
Niño, Michael D.*, Gabe Ignatow, and Tianji Cai. (2017). “Social Isolation, Strain, and Youth Violence”, Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 15(3): 299-313.
Wang, Hongyu*, and Tianji Cai (2017). “Parental Involvement, Adolescents’ Self-Determined Learning, and Academic Achievement in Urban China”, International Journal of Psychology, 52(1): 58-66.
Niño, Michael*, Tianji Cai, Gabriel Ignatow, Philip Yang, (2017). “Generational Peers and Alcohol Misuse”, International Migration Review, 51(1): 67-96.
Zhou, Yisu*, Tianji Cai, and Dan Wang, (2016). “Social Segregation in Hong Kong’s Schools: 2000–2012”, Chinese Sociological Review,48(3): 248-270.
Niño, Michael*, Tianji Cai, and Gabriel Ignatow, (2016). “Social isolation, drunkenness, and cigarette use among adolescents”, Addictive Behaviors, 53: 94-100.
Guo, Guang*, Yi Li, Tianji Cai, Hongyu Wang, and Greg Duncan, (2015). “Peer Influence, Genetic Propensity, and Binge Drinking: A Natural Experiment and a Replication”. American Journal of Sociology, 121(3): 914-954.
Guo, Guang*, Yilan Fu, Hedwig Lee, Tianji Cai, Kathleen Mullan Harris, (2014). “Recognizing a small amount of superficial genetic differences across African, European and Asian Americans helps understand social construction of race”. Demography, 51(6): 2337-2342.
Densley, James A.*, Tianji Cai, Susan Hilal (2014). “Social dominance orientation and trust propensity in street gangs”, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations,17(6): 763-779.
Guo, Guang*, Yilan Fu, Hedwig Lee, Tianji Cai, Kathleen Mullan Harris, Yi Li, (2013). “Genetic Bio-Ancestry and Social Construction of Racial Classification in Social Surveys in the Contemporary United States”, Demography, 51(1): 141-172.
Shen, Yuying*, Dale E. Yeatts, Tianji Cai, Philip Q. Yang, Cynthia M. Cready, (2013) “Social Capital and Self-Rated Health Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults in China: A Multilevel Analysis”, Research on Aging, 36(4): 497-521
Cai, Tianji*, (2013). “Investigation of Ways to Handle Sampling Weights for Multilevel Model Analyses”, Sociological Methodology, 43(1): 178-219.
Guo, Guang*, Tianji Cai, Rui Guo, Hongyu Wang, and Kathleen Harris, (2010). “The Dopamine Transporter Gene, a Spectrum of Most Common Risky Behaviors, and the Legal Status of the Behaviors”, PLoS ONE.5(2): e9352.
Guo, Guang*, Glen H. Elder, Tianji Cai and Nathan Hamilton. (2009). “Gene–environment interactions: Peers’ alcohol use moderates genetic contribution to adolescent drinking behavior”, Social Science Research. 38: 213-224.
Guo, Guang*, Roettger Michael, and Tianji Cai. (2008). “The Integration of Genetic Propensities into Social-Control Models of Delinquency and Violence among Male Youths”, American Sociological Review. 73: 543-68.
Guo, Guang* and Yuying Tong and Tianji Cai. (2008). “Gene by Social-Context Interactions for Number of Sexual Partners among Male Youths: Genetics-informed Sociology”. American Journal of Sociology. 114 Sppl: S36-S66
Cai, Tianji*, Yisu Zhou (2016). “What should sociologists know about big data?” ISA eSymposium for Sociology, 6(3):1-9
李德*, 蔡天骥, 马岩, 张小华, 林建, 唐伟, 叶嘉茵, 夏一巍. (2015). 澳門在學青少年與藥物2014年調查報告.
李涌平*, 蔡天骥 (2014). “理解单独二胎人口政策:为了未来人口发展的平衡”, 人口与发展 (CSSCI), 06(20):104-109
Lindblad, Mark R., Quercia, Roberto G., Riley, Sarah, Jacoby, Melissa B., Cai, Tianji, Wang, Ling and Manturuk, Kim, Coping with Adversity: Personal Bankruptcy Decisions of Lower-Income Homeowners Before and After Bankruptcy Reform (April 26, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2031622
蔡天骥*, 蒋耒文, 任强. (2005). “住房状况对老年居住方式的影响”, 国务院人口普查办公室和国家统计局人口和社会科技统计司编, 《2000年人口普查国家级重点课题研究报告》第二卷, 民族·老龄化·家庭与住房, 第882-895页, 北京: 中国统计出版社。
蔡天骥*. (2004). 女性独居老人自评生活满意度的影响因素分析,中国人口科学 (CSSCI) ,增刊(老龄健康与社会经济发展专辑): 70-74
李玲*, 王启俊, 蔡天骥, 祝伟星. (2004). 肿瘤监测资料统计中的人口预测, 中国肿瘤 (CSCI), 13(12): 754-756.
BOOK REVIEWS
Cai, Tianji (2010). Review of Bayesian Statistical Modeling, by Peter Congdon. Sociological Methods & Research, 2010(39): 302
2019—
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Macau
2013—2019
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Macau
2010—2012
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Texas