Emma Zang, Ph.D.
Department of Sociology
Yale University, USA

Contact
493 College St,
New Haven, CT 06511
emma.zang@yale.edu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. I received my PhD in Public Policy in 2019 and MA in Economics in 2017, both from Duke University. 

As a demographer, my research interests lie at the intersection of health, family demography, and inequality. My work aims to improve the understanding of 1) how early-life conditions affect later-life health outcomes; 2) social stratification and health; 3) spillover effects within the household exploiting policy changes. 

I am also interested in developing and evaluating methods to model trajectories and life transitions in order to better understand how demographic and socioeconomic inequalities shape the health and well-being of individuals from life course perspectives. My ongoing work explores 1) Bayesian approaches to modeling group-based trajectories, incorporating Bayesian Model Averaging techniques; 2) Bayesian approaches to making multi-state life tables using high-dimensional survey data; 3) evaluations of Age-Period-Cohort (APC) models. 
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My work has appeared in journals such as the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Social Science & Medicine, Psychological Methods, Journal of Marriage and Family, and International Journal of Epidemiology.

My research has been reported by major media outlets in the United States, China, South Korea, and India, such as CNN, NBC, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, and ThePaper.cn (澎湃新闻). I have been interviewed as an expert in China by the BBC World News and as an expert in gendered consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic by MoneyToday (South Korea).