



Leping Wang
43 posts

@LepingWangSoc
Post-doc @VanderbiltU | PhD @BU_Tweets | MA @NYUSociology |Medical Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Social Networks, Inequality, Quantitative Methods












▶️ Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=dEvT91… Are Social Security rules fueling inequality? Dr. @DeborahCarr723's new research shows married seniors fare best but divorced & prematurely widowed especially women face late-life hardship. Reforms like caregiver credits might close these gaps.








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.7…


Social Security benefits rules disadvantage divorced and prematurely-widowed older adults (esp. women). Learn why in new WLS analysis (with L. Wang & P. Smock) @BU_Tweets @PopAssocAmerica @CCF_Families @geronsociety @ASA_SALC @asa_families @UWSoc academic.oup.com/gerontologist/…






Some great news to end the year!! New paper with @YingdanL_kk and @jenjpan! In it, we estimate the influence of foreign (American, Russian, and Ukrainian) and domestic Chinese media on conversations on Weibo about the Russo-Ukrainian War. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…