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 mixed methods to delve into these topics.
Sociological Orientation
Using quantitative and mixed methods to understand the role of work in the formation of health inequalities across institutional and cultural contexts.
Relevant working papers and publications:
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Wanying Ling, Senhu Wang, Zhuofei Lu. Forthcoming. 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.
Demographic Orientation
Applying and developing estimation methods and decomposition tools for life expectancy to elucidate the patterns of inequalities in life expectancy across populations, and provide implications for labour market and family policy design.
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.
Epidemiological Orientation
Drawing on a series of biomarkers to identify health disparities "under the skin", and to reveal population health inequalities from a multidimensional perspective.
Relevant working papers and publications:
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Measuring Resilience to Chronic Pain in Population Surveys Using Hair Cortisol, with Tarani Chandola (The University of Hong Kong), Stephanie Cahill (University of Manchester) and Kumari Meena (University of Essex).
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The biological consequences of social isolation and loneliness, with Tarani Chandola (The University of Hong Kong), Patrick Rouxel (The University of Hong Kong).
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Do Stressful Mondays Increase Cardiovascular Disease Risk? A Longitudinal Study of Older Adults in England, with Tarani Chandola (The University of Hong Kong).
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.