Hello! I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

I study social stratification, family demography, and subjective well-being. My dissertation explores the subjective experience of educational mobility and sorting, with a focus on conjugal and intergenerational family relationships. My advisor is Zheng Mu, and committee members are Bussarawan (Puk) Teerawichitchainan and Senhu Wang.

My dissertation builds on my recent study published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, which earned the 2024 Best Student Paper Award from the Population Association of Singapore. I look into how intergenerational educational mobility, viewed as a family project, affects the well-being of primary movers and their parents, with attention to family structures and gender dynamics. This work inspired my two other articles: one on the subjective experience of educational sorting across European societies, published in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, and the other on the structural forces and subjective preferences behind educational sorting patterns in China, under review at Demography.

Another line of my research examines demographic trends in East Asia. In collaboration with Bussarawan (Puk) Teerawichitchainan and Christine Ho, I highlight the trend of rising voluntary childlessness within marriages in Singapore, published in Advances in Life Course Research. Another project with Zheng Mu, published in Family Relations, explores the heterogeneity in partnership trajectories towards childlessness in China, noting the declining degree of diversity and strengthening ties between marriage and fertility.