Yifan
SHEN
沈一帆
PhD Brown University, 2022
Assistant Professor
Profile
Yifan Shen is Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the Division of Social Science. He obtained his PhD in Sociology from Brown University. He studies how ongoing changes in family life are intertwined with economic inequality in the United States and China. His recent work focuses on explaining the rising earnings correlation between spouses in the United States. His work has appeared in Demography and American Journal of Sociology.
Research Interests
• Income Inequality
• Gender Inequality
• Demography
• Marriage and Family
• Education
• East Asia
Courses Taught
SOSC 1110: Data Analysis for Quantitative Social Research
SOSC 2140: Research Methods in the Social Sciences