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Leping Wang

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Post-doc @Vanderbilt U | PhD @Boston U | MA @NYUSociology |Medical Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Family Demography, Social Networks, Inequality https://lepingwang928.github.io/

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How Social Security Helps Married People More Than Singles Social Security is a vital system, but it also perpetuates inequality between married and never-married people and men and women.

Married people get around $1,000 more per month in Social Security income than never-married people! TY for your important research, Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social & Pamela J Smock
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...

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Happy to share a pdf copy if you cannot access the full text :)

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In this new paper, we found off-time marital transition, featured by premature widowhood in China, is associated with higher likelihood of loneliness, whereas on-time marital transition, featured by midlife divorce in the U.S., is associated with less loneliness.
doi.org/10.1332/1757...

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Shoutout to Jonathan Mijs, Debby Carr, Neha Gondal, Michel Anteby, and Ashley Mears for their dedicated mentorship and constructive feedback!

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Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel β€œMerit-Fit-Diversit” framework to show how narr...

How do evaluations in junior faculty hiring reproduce inequality? In this study, I propose a "Merit-Fit-Diversity" framework to unpack the academic gatekeeping process across sociology and business departments, and across private and public universities: doi.org/10.1111/soin...

01.08.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

See our new study to find out how social security disparities persist even after adjusting for life course characteristics including human capital, labor supply, health, and socio-demographics!

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