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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, work experiences, and residential contexts shape health disparities across the life course. My work in this area has been published in Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 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.