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...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Qin Gao
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW) and Faculty Affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and WEAI. Professor Gao, who joined Columbia's faculty in the fall of 2016, is also an Academic Board Member of the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing … [Read more...]
Qin Gao Publishes New Book “Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China”
In March 2017, Oxford University Press published a new book by WEAI professor Qin Gao titled Welfare, Work and Poverty: Social Assistance in China (Oxford University Press, 2017). Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program -- Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, … [Read more...]
