I am interested in studying Aging, Health, Family, Marriage, and Gender related topics in various social contexts, including the US, China, India, Taiwan, and the Philippines.
United States: Making use of the nationally representative longitudinal data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), my dissertation explores the provision of care by an increasingly diverse care networks, and whether some types of care networks are inherently better than the others in meeting older adults’ care needs. My dissertation has been supported by the Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship and Harriet B. Presser Fellowship.
India: Using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), I examine the trend and variation in educational assortative mating during the period of 1970-2012 (Demography 2020). I am also interested in gender differences in the health implications of widowhood (GSA 2018), and caste inequalities in social capital and mortality in India (PAA 2019).
China: I study how the intergenerational relationship is related to old age support (IJAHD 2016) and older adults’ psychological well-being (PH 2018). I am also interested in the impact of eldercare on employed children’s well-being, including their jobs and income (JCCG 2017) and mental health (GSA 2018). Recently, I move beyond family to explore various social determinants of health, including social networks (AMH 2020) and neighborhood environments (CSR 2021).
Taiwan: In the context of Taiwan becoming the first in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage, I am interested in comparing relationship dynamics between same-sex and different-sex couples (DR 2019), which won the Poster Award in the PAA 2018. I am also interested in how intergenerational coresidence is associated with romantic relationship experiences (CSR 2019). Both studies have used data from the Taiwan Education Panel Survey and Beyond (TEPS-B).
