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:
Housing insecurity refers to a range of precarious conditions—unaffordable rents, overcrowding, insecure tenure—that fall short of homelessness but still undermine well-being. It signals structural inequalities in income, credit, and social membership. Despite growing policy concern, cross-national research remains limited and often overlooks how housing insecurity varies.
Working paper:
Comparing Housing Insecurity in Europe: The Role of Gender, Generations, and Family Structure
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 Jessica Nisén. & Erik Carlsson)
Publication:
Fang, Changchun. & Yuting Li., (2024) “Social inequalities and the societal context of fertility costs: The structural mechanism of lowest-low fertility. [in Chinese]” Hebei Academic Journal (04),175–81. (CSSCI) [LINK]