My research lies at the intersection of sociology, demography, and political economy, with a focus on social stratification and inequality in housing systems. I am particularly interested in how socioeconomic transformations—such as financialization, welfare retrenchment, and housing market volatility—shape micro-level experiences of insecurity, advantage, and life chances.
I am working on the following topics:
Economic insecurity has become a defining feature of post-crisis context, yet the protective role of housing wealth remains insufficiently understood. This study examines whether housing functions as a private buffer against economic insecurity and how this effect depends on household debt and institutional context.
Working paper:
Buffer or Burden? The Conditional Role of Housing Wealth in Economic Insecurity Across Europe
This research examines the heterogeneity of intergenerational housing transfers in China, focusing on differences across generations, urban-rural divides, gender, and sibling configurations. We explore how family transfers reproduce class privilege, shape housing careers, and vary across institutional contexts.
Working paper:
Paths of Inheritance: Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Transmission of Housing Inequality: Evidence from Cohort Study in China (1935-2003) (with Zhuowen Qin)
This project investigates how financialization—the growing role of financial markets, logics, and institutions—reshapes housing and amplifies wealth inequality. I examine both macro-level dynamics (e.g., credit expansion) and micro-level mechanisms (e.g. mortgage debt, ownership norms), focusing on how housing serves as a key site of stratification across class and generation.
Working paper:
Housing Financialisation and Wealth inequality in China: Analysis based on Mortgage Behaviours (with Changchun Fang and Yixuan Ma)
How do housing and wealth inequality shape demographic behaviour? I explore the relationship between social inequalities and fertility, with a focus on China and Nordic countries.
Working paper:
Housing tenure, housing satisfaction, and fertility intentions in the Nordic context of the early 2020s (with Erik Carlsson. & Jessica Nisén)
Publication:
Fang, Changchun. & Yuting Li., (2024) “Social inequalities and the societal context of fertility costs: The structural mechanism of lowest-low fertility. [in Chinese]”《利益分化与育儿成本的情境性：低生育率的结构成因》Hebei Academic Journal (04),175–81. (CSSCI) [LINK]