Yang Yang
Assistant Professor
B.A. Beijing University, 1998
M.A. The Ohio State University, 2000
M.S. Duke University, 2004
Ph.D. Duke University, 2005
Office: Social Sciences 407
Phone: 773-834-1113
Email: yangy@uchicago.edu
Homepage: http://home.uchicago.edu/~yangy
CV: see the most up-to-date version at my homepage
Yang's current substantive interests focus on how social and demographic structures and processes influence health across the life course, including measures of fertility, morbidity, mortality in demography and measures of social antecedents of physical and mental health status in medical sociology. Current methodological interests focus on new models and methods for cohort analysis, including Intrinsic Estimator for population level tabular data, hierarchical models for contextual cohort effects, and Bayesian statistical inference for small sample size problems. Current research projects include length of quality life, temporal trends of human morbidity and cause-specific mortality, and social differentials in health trajectories over the life course.
Research Interests
Population, Sociology of Health and Medicine, Methods and Models, and Stratification
Selected Publications
"Social Inequalities in Happiness in the U.S. 1972-2004: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis." American Sociological Review 73:204-226, 2008 .
"Trends in U.S. Adult Chronic Disease Mortality: Age, Period, and Cohort Variations." Demography 45: 387-416, 2008.
"Long and Happy Living: Trends and Patterns of Happy Life Expectancy in the U.S., 1970 - 2000." Social Science Research: In press.
"Is Old Age Depressing? Growth Trajectories and Cohort Variations in Late Life Depression." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48:16-32, 2007.
"Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Repeated Cross-Section Surveys: Fixed or Random Effects?" (with Kenneth Land). Sociological Methods and Research 36(special issue): 297-326, 2008.
"How Does Functional Disability Affect Depressive Symptoms in Late Life? The Role of Perceived Social Support and Psychological Resources." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 47:355-372, 2006.
"Bayesian Inference for Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models of Repeated Cross-Section Survey Data." Sociological Methodology 36:39-74, 2006.
