Welcome to my little corner on the Internet!

I am a joint Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy and Sociology at Duke University, where I am affiliated with the Duke Population Research Institute (DUPRI) and the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy (CCFP). I am also a doctoral fellow affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR).

My research primarily examine how inequalities in wealth and health are produced and reproduced through family process or broader structural constructs, and how public policies may mitigate or exacerbate these dynamics. I am particularly interested in quantitatively analyzing these processes from life-course (temporal) and socio-ecological (spatial) perspectives. My work has been published or is forthcoming in journals like International Journal of Epidemiology, Demography, Social Currents, and etc. You can find more about my research and interests in this Q&A.

Currently, my curiosities have been drawn to two broad topics:
(1) inequality in young adults’ wealth accumulation
(2) the consequences of living in places with high levels of wealth inequality