Haoming Song

SUCCESSFUL DEFENSE: June 1, 2023
GRADUATE STUDENT
M.A. Brown University
M.A. Renmin University of China
B.A. Renmin University of China

Research Interests

Inequality & Stratification; Gender, Family, & Sexuality; Demography; Health; Race & Racism; Quantitative, Computational, & Mixed Methods

Biography

Year of Entry: 2017

Haoming Song is a PhD candidate of Sociology at Brown University. As an inequality scholar, he focuses on gender, sexuality, and family issues in the global context. His research agenda explores how family reproduces or reduces socioeconomic inequalities and health disparities based on gender, sexuality, race, and class. Situated in the U.S. and East Asia, his work mainly adopts quantitative methods, including computational and experimental methods, and he is also collecting qualitative data mostly in China. Currently, he is finishing a U.S.-based dissertation project, which combines several nationally representative datasets to explore the social organization of family life among sexual minorities (gays, lesbians, and bisexuals), including the questions of partner selection, the division of housework and childcare time, and the relations between structural heteropatriarchy, family structure, and health.

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Publications:

  • Song, Haoming. 2021. “The Unequal Consequences of Family Structures for Infant Health.” Social Science Research 100:102604. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102604.
  • Song, Haoming. 2022. “Women’s Divergent Union Transitions After Marital Dissolution in the United States.” Population Research and Policy Review 41(3):953–80. doi: 10.1007/s11113-021-09677-0.
  • Rauscher, Emily., Haoming Song. 2022. “Learning to Value Girls: Balanced Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Parental Education in the United States, 1969-2018.” Demography 59(3). doi: 10.1215/00703370-9968420.
  • Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Haoming Song. 2022. “Gender, Union Formation, and Assortative Mating among Older Women.” Social Science Research 103:102656.  doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102656.
  • Song, Jian, Tingting Qin, and Haoming Song. 2018. “Intergenerational Effects of Gender Preference: Observations through Desire and Behavior of Parents.” Population Research: 42 (2)15-28. (In Chinese)