Yongxin Shang
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Sociology, Yale University
Email: yongxin.shang@yale.edu
Postdoctoral Associate
Department of Sociology, Yale University
Email: yongxin.shang@yale.edu
Hi! I am Yongxin, a Postdoctoral Associate in Sociology at Yale University, supervised by Dr. Emma Zang. I received my PhD in Public Policy (with a minor in Demography and a concentration in Sociology) at Cornell University.
I am broadly interested in family demography and health inequalities. Some overarching questions that motivate my research include: Who is going to care for older adults in an increasingly aging society? What are the life course patterns of care-giving and care-receiving? What types of social policy can better support older adults in need of care and their caregivers? I am trying to further the understanding of these questions from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.
News:
September 2025: I am going to organize a PAA 2026 session titled "Flash: The Demography of Care for Older Adults" (call for paper), please consider submitting your relevant papers to the session (submission deadline is October 5, 2025)!
July 2025: I successfully defended my dissertation and graduated from Cornell University with my PhD in Public Policy. See some of my stories and reflection here.