Feng Hou

Ph.D. (University of Western Ontario, 1997)
Adjunct Professor

Feng Hou's research focuses on socioeconomic integration of immigrants and the second generation, dynamics of social diversity, neighbourhoood and community contextual effects, and applied statistical techniques. He is a senior researcher with Social Analysis Division, Statistics Canada. From 1996 to 1999, he was a researcher with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto.

Areas of interest

Immigration and the second generation
Socioeconomic status of racial minorities
Ubran residential patterns
Applied quantitative methods

Selected publications

Hou, F. and S. Coulombe. 2010. "Earnings gap for Canadian-born visible minority groups in the public and private sectors" Canadian Public Policy 36(1): 29-43.

Hou, F. and Z. Wu. 2009. "Racial diversity, minority concentration and trust in Canadian urban neighbourhoods" Social Science Research 38(3): 693-716.

Hou, F. and J. Myles. 2008. "The changing role of education in the marriage market: Assortative marriage in Canada and the United States since the 1970s" Canadian Journal of Sociology 33(2): 337-366.

Hou, F. 2007. "Changes in the initial destinations and re-distribution of Canada's major immigrant groups: Re-examining the role of group affinity" International Migration Review 41(3): 680-705.

Hou, F. 2006. "Spatial assimilation of racial minorities in Canada's immigrant gateway cities" Urban Studies 43(7): 1191-1213.

Hou, F. and L. Bourne. 2006. "The migration-immigration link in Canada's gateway cities: A comparative study of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver." Environment and Planning A 38(8): 1505-1525.

Hou, F. and J. Myles. 2005. "Neighbourhood inequality, neighbourhood affluence and population health" Social Science & Medicine 60(7): 1557-1569.