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 assortative mating and mobility, with a focus on the dynamics of conjugal and intergenerational family relationships. My advisors and committee members are Zheng Mu, 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 currently under review: one on the subjective experience of assortative mating across European societies and the other on the mating preferences and structural forces behind assortative mating patterns in China.

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 explores the heterogeneity in partnership trajectories towards childlessness in China, noting the declining degree of diversity and strengthening ties between marriage and fertility.