Yongxin Shang

PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Cornell University

Email: ys982@cornell.edu / Twitter: @ShangYongxin

Hi! I am Yongxin, a PhD candidate at the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University with a concentration in sociology and a minor in demography. I am also a graduate student affiliate at the Cornell Population Center (CPC), Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI), and Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). I received my MA in Economics in 2020 from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and BAs in Economics and Sociology in 2018 from Peking 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:

November 2024: I am going to give an oral presentation titled "When Your Caregiver is Also Your Confidant: Caregiver Functions and the Quality of Care Received by Older Adults" at GSA 2024 in Seattle, WA.
October 2024: I accepted a postdoctoral offer to join Emma Zang's research team starting in Fall 2025!
September 2024: My first first-authored publication titled "Confidants and Caregivers: Network Multiplexity and Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults" (co-authored with Sarah Patterson) has just been published in the Journals of Gerontology: Series B (link to the paper). An earlier version of this paper has previously won a poster award at PAA 2024.
August 2024: I gave a roundtable presentation on a project titled "Whom to Rely on for Support: Changing Networks of Confidants and Caregivers in Later Life" and served as a discussant for an oral session titled "Changing Families in Aging Societies" at the annual conference of the American Sociological Association held in Montréal, Canada.
May 2024: I received the "Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award" at Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy in 2023-2024, for my teaching assistantship job for a master-level course titled "Applied Multivariate Statistics in Public Affairs" (instructor: Prof. Douglas Miller) in Fall 2023.
April 2024: I am going to present a paper (coauthored with Kelly Musick and Paula Fomby) and a poster (coauthored with Sarah Patterson) at the PAA 2024 in Columbus, Ohio. I am also going to chair a session "Caregiving and Healthcare Across the Life Course". Looking forward to meeting many old and new friends there!
November 2023: I am going to participate in the APPAM 2023 as the chair for the panel session "Politics and Migration Policy" and the discussant for the panel session "Disability and Access to Care". This will be my first time ever participating in the APPAM conference. I look forward to connecting with a lot of policy scholars and policy practitioners in Atlanta!
October 2023: I was honored that two projects I've been working on as a research assistant were on the program for the CAPS Annual Conference 2023 (virtual), as part of the "Conversation on Families and Aging" session.
September 2023: My first peer-reviewed publication titled "Geographic relocation in response to parents' health shocks: Who moves and how close?" (co-authored with Adriana Reyes) has just been published in the Journal of Marriage and Family (link to the paper).
August 2023: I successfully defended my dissertation proposal and officially became a PhD candidate!

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