Wanying Ling (She/Her/Hers)

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 structures shape health and subjective well-being

Relevant working papers and publications:

Formal demography orientation

Using life expectancy and derived indicators to map population-level patterns and temporal change

Relevant working papers and publications:

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

Leveraging novel data and analytic strategies to link micro-level behavior to macro-level patterns

Relevant working papers and publications:

Tools, Codes and Notes

Reading List

A curated reading list of mine.