Well-written piece. I would stress that the extremely early retirement ages (50, 55) are mainly applied to women. This adds another layer of inequality, compounding the existing one associated with the rural-urban divide in China. Some thoughts: niussp.org/gender-issues/…

How does #ClimateChange impact children's education? Sukie Xiuqi Yang and Kai Feng, #2023GEMReport fellows, delve into the complex relationship between climate anomalies and educational attainment in #SubSaharanAfrica: bit.ly/3HG97B5 #WorldEducationBlog

Had a different view: In 2021-2023, Chinese immigrants caught at the *southwest* border increased by 54 times (450 to 24314). Indians by 16 times (2588 to 41770). Not sure why Canadians, but their numbers increased from 76 to 100. In 2024, thus far 15038 Chinese and 9546 Indian.

Retirement, a major life transition, may increase hospitalizations for mental illness. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age by occupation for China’s female workers, we provide some of the 1st causal evidence. w/ Ruochen Sun Jody Sindelar Yale Health Policy & Management Yale School of Public Health Economics & Human Biology

oh thanks for sharing!

Interesting research estimating COVID excess death in China using obituaries from the Chinese Academy of Engineering journals.lww.com/epidem/abstrac…

In the name of protecting research security, the U.S. government has created a law enforcement architecture grounded in exclusion and fear, mirroring the very authoritarian society we are trying to compete with. My latest piece in The Hill: thehill.com/opinion/educat…

In yesterday's Methodology Working Group at PennPSC Sociology at Penn, I introduced commonly used climate data and showed how to process and link them with demographic data. Check out the slides and code I prepared for the workshop :) github.com/szkaifeng/Clim…

Happening on 3/29 Environmental Contexts of Childhood in China Speakers include Penn's Kai Feng and Sukie Xiuqi Yang and NYU's Jia Miao seminar co-sponsored by PennPSC & NYU Shanghai 's new Center for Applied Social & Economic Research MORE INFO bit.ly/49SlRkR

🚨New Publication Alert!🚨 Kai Feng, PhD Candidate in Demography & Sociology, and Xi Song, Associate Professor of Sociology, new co-authored article, "Kinship And Care: Racial Disparities In Potential Dementia Caregiving In The U.S. From 2000 To 2060"➡️bit.ly/3Wb5jQL

Check out a new research on racial disparities in dementia caregiving by PennPSC's Xi Song grad student Kai Feng READ IT HERE, in The Journals of Gerontology : bit.ly/4aYnXjp

Please read and share Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO Fellow Rodney Nkrumah's blog on understanding learning disparities in Ghana: world-education-blog.org/2024/06/04/und….

⁦PennPSC⁩ had an excellent showing at the RC28 conference in Shanghai RC28 NYU Shanghai ⁦Sociology at Penn⁩ ⁦Penn⁩

Excited to read the paper! Thanks for featuring the work by Kai Feng and I supported by Global Education Monitoring Report UNESCO fellowship.

The The New Yorker writer Peter Hessler joins me this week on the Sinica Podcast to talk about his outstanding new book, out July 9, "Other Rivers: A Chinese Education." A phenomenal longitudinal cohort study rendered in Hessler's gorgeous prose. Link in replies below.

wow congrats!!!

Kai Feng, PhD Candidate in Soc. & Dem., & Emily Hannum, Professor of Soc., have recently published a new article titled, "Diverse pathways from adolescence to early adulthood among China's rural youth: A New Perspective" Access the full research here ➡️doi.org/10.1177/205715…

What does career "success" really mean for college students? In my first solo-authored PhD article in Social Problems, I explore how students' racial and class backgrounds shape the moral tensions they face in their career decision-making ➡️ tinyurl.com/socpro056