Leping Wang
@lepingwang.bsky.social
Post-doc @Vanderbilt U | PhD @Boston U | MA @NYUSociology |Medical Sociology, Aging and the Life Course, Family Demography, Social Networks, Inequality
https://lepingwang928.github.io/
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Married people get around $1,000 more per month in Social Security income than never-married people! TY for your important research, Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social & Pamela J Smock
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How Social Security Helps Married People More Than Singles
Social Security is a vital system, but it also perpetuates inequality between married and never-married people and men and women.
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September 27, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Married people get around $1,000 more per month in Social Security income than never-married people! TY for your important research, Deborah Carr @carrds723.bsky.social Leping Wang @lepingwang.bsky.social & Pamela J Smock
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In this new paper, we found off-time marital transition, featured by premature widowhood in China, is associated with higher likelihood of loneliness, whereas on-time marital transition, featured by midlife divorce in the U.S., is associated with less loneliness.
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
August 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
In this new paper, we found off-time marital transition, featured by premature widowhood in China, is associated with higher likelihood of loneliness, whereas on-time marital transition, featured by midlife divorce in the U.S., is associated with less loneliness.
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
doi.org/10.1332/1757...
How do evaluations in junior faculty hiring reproduce inequality? In this study, I propose a "Merit-Fit-Diversity" framework to unpack the academic gatekeeping process across sociology and business departments, and across private and public universities: doi.org/10.1111/soin...
Unpacking Merit, Fit, and Diversity: A Multifaceted Framework to Academic Gatekeeping in Social Sciences at U.S. R1 Research Universities
This study draws on interviews with 50 sociology and business professors across two private and five public American universities, and proposes a novel “Merit-Fit-Diversit” framework to show how narr...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How do evaluations in junior faculty hiring reproduce inequality? In this study, I propose a "Merit-Fit-Diversity" framework to unpack the academic gatekeeping process across sociology and business departments, and across private and public universities: doi.org/10.1111/soin...
See our new study to find out how social security disparities persist even after adjusting for life course characteristics including human capital, labor supply, health, and socio-demographics!
Social Security benefits rules disadvantage divorced and prematurely widowed older women. Learn why in WLS analysis w/ @lepingwang.bsky.social & P. Smock) @buciss.bsky.social @bostonu.bsky.social @ccfamilies.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social
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Do Social Security Benefits Rules Perpetuate Marital Status and Gender Inequalities?
ABSTRACTBackground and Objectives. Social Security benefits rules privilege married persons and penalize divorced, prematurely widowed, and lifelong single
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July 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
See our new study to find out how social security disparities persist even after adjusting for life course characteristics including human capital, labor supply, health, and socio-demographics!