GSAPP and School of Social Work Event Please join us for a Forum with: Deborah Davis, Professor Emerita of Sociology Yale University Jane Duckett, Professor of Politics University of Glasgow Peilei Fan, Professor of Urban Planning Michigan State University Qin Gao, Professor of Social Work Columbia University Shi Li, Professor of … [Read more...]
“China’s Unfolding Romantic Revolution”
School of Social Work Event Please join us for a lecture with: Melissa Schneider, LCSW and author of: The Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China Moderated by: Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy, Columbia University Imagine a world where nobody … [Read more...]
Qin Gao publishes new article linking Dibao welfare participation and life satisfaction in rural China
WEAI's Professor Qin Gao has published an article with Beijing Normal University's Professor Huawei Han in the Journal of Happiness Studies. The article, titled "Does Welfare Participation Improve Life Satisfaction? Evidence from Panel Data in Rural China" uses recent national longitudinal survey data from the China Family Panel Studies in 2012 and 2014 and a combination of … [Read more...]
Qin Gao coedits Journal of Asian Public Policy symposium section
A symposium section of the Journal of Asian Public Policy coedited by Professor Qin Gao has just been published and will be featured in the journal's July 2019 issue. The first article in the section is titled "Supporting variability in women’s lifestyles: a study of single-motherhood transition in South Korea and Japan" and is coauthored by Jiajia Zhou, MARSEA '18 and Jennifer … [Read more...]
“Labor Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China”
Brown Bag Lecture Rachel Murphy, Professor of Chinese Development and Society and Head of School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford Professor Murphy’s research examines transformations in China due to inter-related processes of industrialization, urbanization, demographic transition, and marketization. She has conducted in-depth longitudinal … [Read more...]
