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Hi, my name is Yue Qin (hear name). I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am also a predoctoral researcher at Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) and Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) at UW-Madison. 

My research primarily focuses on social determinants of health inequality in mid- and later life. I am particularly interested in how education, family relationships, and work-related factors shape health disparities across the life course. My work in this area has been published in The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences and Journal of Applied Gerontology.

Given growing concerns about precarious work and job inequality, I also investigate how precarity intersects with other forms of social inequality, how it is justified and reproduced, and how it impacts individual well-being across the life course. I developed the concept of "security capital" to analyze the reproduction of precarity, which is published in Work, Employment and Society.