Sheng-Pin Huang

Hello! I am an incoming PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. I mainly use quantitative methods and survey data to study social inequality and mobility in the United States, focusing on the intersection of family change, gender, work, and education.

In my master thesis, I use causal decomposition approach and the NLSY97 to understand the role of higher education in shaping disparities in first-marriage rates across family backgrounds. My ongoing projects explore the relationship between fertility decline and trends in intergenerational mobility, the effect of cohabitation and marriage on adult’s socioeconomic outcomes, and causes underlying the stalled convergence of gender pay gap.

I expect to obtain my M.A. in Sociology from National Taiwan University this summer, where I also earned my B.A. in Sociology. I also spent one year as a visiting student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where I discovered that I enjoy long, snowy winters.

You can find my CV here.