Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies @Columbia @ColumbiaSoc studying occupations, AI/future of work, Asian Americans, and social mobility
Philadelphia, PA
Joined January 2010
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I thought sociologists know this gender display phenomenon for a long time…
The more women earn, the more housework they do: Inside the paradox a Wharton economist calls ‘an existential problem for men'
fortune.com/2026/04/01/whart…
features research by PSC Research Associate Corinne Low (@femonomics) in Fortune
Super interesting work!
In our new article in @ESR_news, Jan Saarela, myself, and @ognjenob, explore ethnic self-identification based on family heritage using 4 generations of data from contemporary Finland, using data on exogamous family networks.
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae006
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In our new article in @ESR_news, Jan Saarela, myself, and @ognjenob, explore ethnic self-identification based on family heritage using 4 generations of data from contemporary Finland, using data on exogamous family networks.
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae006
We have just wrapped up the 2026 @ColumbiaSoc Summer Academy on Large Language Models for Social Science, held from May 26 to June 5, 2026.
Over two weeks, participants engaged in keynote lectures, hands-on tutorials, TA-led workshops, group discussions, collaborative projects, and final team presentations on how LLMs and AI tools can advance social science research.
We were grateful to hear from an outstanding group of speakers, including Sandra Matz, Marcelo Mattar, Sharad Goel, Matt Connelly, Yamil R. Velez, Kathy Zhou, and Ying Jin. The program covered topics such as LLMs for social science, AI in education, respondent-centered research, robot control, automated hypothesis testing, coding tools, transformers, NLP, deep learning, AI agents, simulations, fine-tuning, RAG, and in-context learning.
Thank you to all of our speakers, program assistants, and participants for making this an inspiring and productive two weeks at Columbia.
See our schedule below
#LLMs #AI #SocialScience #ComputationalSocialScience #ColumbiaUniversity
📢 Applications Open!
Join the 2026 Summer Academy on Large Language Models for Social Science at Columbia University
🗓 May 26 – June 5, 2026
📅 Apply by March 20, 2026
#LLM #SocialScience #AIResearch #ComputationalSocialScience #NLP
ASA methodology mid year meeting will be hosted at University of Toronto this year on April 24-25. Submission ddl March 5 @ASAnews @AsaMethodology
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Many thanks to the @ReadDemography reviewers and editors for their constructive and meticulous feedback that made this a better paper! This grew out of my second-year paper. Big shoutout to my second-year thesis committee—Emily Hannum, Xi Song @xisong, and Jere Behrman—for their invaluable support!
“Duration & Timing of Parental Out-migration & Early Childhood Development in China”: Using CFPS data, @XiuqiY accounts for longitudinal exposure to parents’ migration & the dynamic selection process to examine the effects on childhood development. @upenn read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
We find that changes in kinship network will create new caregiving burden for families around the world in the next two decades. And China is among the top of this list.
Scheduled
In “Present & Future Dementia Burden in China,” @myntziak (Kai Feng), @xisong & Hal Caswell estimate kin availability & dementia prevalence in kinship networks, finding that the caregiving burden is expected to climb 18-fold in several decades. read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
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The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its PhD program in Demography. We look forward to recruiting a strong and diverse cohort for Fall 2026! Applications are due December 15, 2025. Learn More: demog.pop.upenn.edu/prospect…
Delayed tenure promotions at UNC. Hope the pause will be lifted soon. archive.is/eUyZK
Excited to see several of these projects that the students developed in my class will soon be presented at PAA.
📊 The PAA Practice talks will take place this coming Monday, March 31, 2025. Various Titles and Presenters will be showcasing their work before the annual meeting in DC, see the list below. The event will take place from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the PSC Commons (McNeil 403). #GGD
ALT The PAA Practice talks will take place this coming Monday, March 31, 2025. Various Titles and Presenters will be showcasing their work before the annual meeting in DC, see the list below. The event will take place from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in the PSC Commons (McNeil 403).
Congratulations @drschut !! That’s an amazing project. Cannot wait to see this database and findings from the data.
Congrats to our alum Rebecca Schut (@drschut), recipient of an @RussellSageFdn Pipeline Grant for Emerging Scholars!
bit.ly/3DUtGvu
All Penn students, faculty and affiliates are welcome to participate in this event! @Penn
Coding & Data Management Festival
📆Date: April 4, 2025
🕛Time: 12 – 5:00 PM
📍 Location: PSC Commons
💻 Audience: Open to all Penn faculty, students, and researchers interested in quantitative methods, coding, and data management. @PennPSC
Register: forms.gle/cfZdyy6eVUiRRxHK9
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CALL FOR PAPERS! Submissions for the ASA Methodology Section Midyear Meeting, May 16-17 at the University of Pennsylvania, are DUE APRIL 1.
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: bit.ly/3DiPqkj
REGISTER FOR EVENT: bit.ly/41tsEyn
Please come to join us for this event!
Coding & Data Management Festival
📆 April 4, 2025
🕛 12 – 5:00 PM
📍 PSC Commons
💻 Open to all Penn faculty, students, and researchers interested in quantitative methods, coding, and data management.
Register to attend: bit.ly/3QlKnmf...
Looking forward to this summer school in Brasilia
Delighted that @UCStoneCenter is collaborating with @LSEInequalities and the Institute of Applied Economic Research for this summer school and conference in Brasilia. Please apply!
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Excited that this paper is out! @p_fomby and I describe nonresident parent wealth among children in the US using the @umpsid. We show that children likely have access to this wealth, and that it matters for their educational attainment in young adulthood.
@jakejhays & @p_fomby, in “Nonresident Parent Wealth Among Children,” give 1st estimates of nonresident parent wealth for minor children, noting "the spread of resources across households...is critical to understanding" inequality. @umichStoneCID @PennPSC read.dukeupress.edu/demograp…
Please apply!
SICSS-Penn application is open! Deadline March 7, 2025. More information can be found ➡️sicss.io/2025/penn/apply @xisong @dhopkins1776 @duncanjwatts #computational #socialscience #SICSS
Looking forward to going back to my alma mater for my favorite conference!
Announcing the ISA RC28 @OfficialRC22025 Summer Meeting at UCLA! Conference theme: “Social Inequality and Labor Market Restructuring;” Keynotes by Michael Hout @MikeHoutNY and Xi Song @xisong
Conference dates: August 4-7, 2025
Abstracts due: February 17, 2025
See you in L.A.!