Wei-Jun Yeung

Brief Introduction

Professor Yeung is a Provost-Chair Professor in the NUS Sociology Department and Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. Prior to NUS, her academic history includes time at the University of Michigan and New York University. She is the founding Director of the Center for Family and Population Research in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at NUS. Professor Yeung is the President of the Population Association of Singapore. She is also the President of International Chinese Sociological Association and an international academic advisor to the Institute of Social Science Studies at Peking University and Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Professor Yeung was a co-principal investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the longest-running social science longitudinal study in the world. She is an international advisor for several family panel studies in the world. She has conducted a study with colleagues to examine the impact of migration on Chinese children’s development. Currently, she leads a project on Singapore preschool children's development - Singapore Longitudinal EArly Development Study (SG LEADS). Professor Yeung has published extensively and has been on the editorial boards of several top-ranking international journals such as Demography, Journal of Marriage and Family, Child Development, Social Science Research, and Journal of Family Issues, and on numerous scientific review committees and advisory boards. She has received many prestigious research awards in her career including those from NSF, NICHD, and the Singapore Ministry of Education. She has consulted with United Nations on various topics. Professor Yeung’s current research includes various family demographic issues in Asia and in America. Her work appears in leading journals and is cited widely in academic publications and high-impact media such as BBC News and The Economist. Her recent publications include changing family values and behavior, children's well-being, human capital, and aging. Edited volumes include Family and Demographic Transition in Southeast Asia, Singapore Family and Population Changes, Family and Population Policies in Asia, Productive Aging, One-Person Households, Young People in Uncertain Labor Markets: International Evidence, Transitioning to Adulthood in Asia, Long-Term Care, and Economic Stress and Human Capital in Asia.

Teaching Areas

• China, Demography, Family and Children, Aging, Education, Stratification, Research Methods

Research Interests

• Family, Children, Social Inequality, Demography, China's Social Transformation, Social Policy, Human Capital, Stratification