Research
My research operates at the intersection of demography, sociology, and epidemiology. I employ a wide variety of multi-source data—including census records, social surveys, biographies, and biomarkers—alongside quantitative and computational methods to delve into these topics.
Social epidemiology orientation
Ddentifying how work and family life shape physiological health and subjective well-being
Relevant working papers and publications:
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Wanying Ling, Senhu Wang, Zhuofei Lu. 2025. Working Time Mismatch and Employee Subjective Well-being Across Institutional Contexts: A Job Quality Perspective. Work, Employment and Society.
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Wanying Ling, Senhu Wang, Shuanglong Li. 2024. Diversity Patterns in Non-Standard Employment and Their Relationship with Self-Rated Health in Urban China from 2010 to 2021 Social Science & Medicine. 116827.
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Tarani Chandola, Wanying Ling, Patrick Rouxel. 2025. Are anxious Mondays associated with HPA-axis dysregulation? A longitudinal study of older adults in England Journal of Affective Disorders. 119611.
Formal demography orientation
Characterizing patterns and temporal dynamics in births, deaths, and health
Relevant working papers and publications:
- Expansion or compression? Understanding inequalities in healthy life expectancy for the Chinese elderly from a life course perspective.
Oral presentation at the Annual China Population Society Conference 2023 (Shanxi, China, July 2023), entitled Expansion or compression? Investigating healthy life expectancy of Chinese elderly from a life course perspective.
Oral presentation at the Annual SIGMA Research Symposium 2023 / 19th International Conference on Pensions, Insurance and Savings (Tokyo, Japan, May 2023), entitled Inequality of disability-free life expectancy of the Chinese elderly from a life course perspective.
Computational social science
Exploring novel ways to observe and measure social behavior using nontraditional data, analytic methods, and visualization
Relevant working papers and publications:
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Wanying Ling, Sizhan Cui. 2025. The Limits of Replication: The Possibility and Feasibility of Silicon Samples (In Chinese). Journal of Intelligent Society.
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Are Silicon Samples Feasible? Evidence from a Cross-National Factorial Survey Experiment on Fertility Intentions, with Senhu Wang (National University of Singapore), Qi Xu (Nanjing University).
Tools, Codes and Notes
- (tools) ChineseDemopædia: Chinese-based Demographic Dictionary
- (codes) Healthy life expectancy and the Sullivan Method
- (notes) Notes for Decomposition of Differentials in Health Expectancies from Multistate Life Tables
Reading List
A curated reading list of mine.