CASER at NYU Shanghai

🌡️ How has climate change reshaped children’s heat exposure in China? A new study in PNAS, co-authored by Marco M. Laghi, a doctoral student at CASER, finds that children’s annual exposure to moderate or stronger heat increased by 385 hours over three decades.

📊 NYU Shanghai’s Sociology discipline ranks 101–150 globally in the 2026 ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, placing it among the six universities in mainland China ranked in the top 200.🎉 Learn more: shanghairanking.com/universi…

That’s a wrap on the 15th Applied Social Science Research Methods Workshop at NYU Shanghai! From July 1–15, 80 participants from 54 institutions explored agentic AI, quantitative text analysis, and social network analysis. #NYUShanghai #SocialScience

The 2026 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS Shanghai) is underway at NYU Shanghai’s Qiantan campus. Hosted by CASER for the third time, it brings 25 emerging scholars together for lectures, collaboration, and new research ideas. #ComputationalSocialScience

Applications are open for the 2026 Summer School in Applied Social Science Research Methods at NYU Shanghai. Advanced English-taught courses on Agentic AI, Quantitative Text Analysis, and Social Network Analysis. Apply by May 29: caser.shanghai.nyu.edu/train…

Join us for a CASER seminar on wealth inequality featuring Fabian Pfeffer (LMU Munich & ISI). Topic: Wealth Distribution, Redistribution, and Predistribution 📅 Apr 23, 8:00–9:30 PM (Beijing Time) 🌐 Language: English 💻 Zoom | Registration required

Academic Achievement | Professor Xiaogang Wu, Director of CASER @nyushanghai, has published a review essay in the American Journal of Sociology: “Exams, Meritocracy, and Disenchantment with the Chinese Dream” Congratulations to Professor Wu on this important publication!

🆕 New research 📄 Equal opportunity policy and the reverse gender gap in academic achievement 🎓 When gender-based barriers in school admissions are removed, girls not only catch up—but outperform boys in math and science. 👩‍🏫 Duoduo Xu (HKU) & Xiaogang Wu 📖 Published in RSSM

📢 CSR Special Issue The Chinese Sociological Review invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Rural–Urban Inequality in Post-Reform China: Persistent Divides and Key Stratifying Forces.” Abstract deadline: March 20 Manuscript deadline: August 31 think.taylorandfrancis.com/s…

📢 New Publication A new study by Dongqin Wang (former postdoc), Minghong Shen (postdoc), and Xiaogang Wu examines how socioeconomic status shapes early childhood non-cognitive skill development in China. The paper is published in China Economic Review.

📢 Publication Highlight Congratulations to Li Xin (East China Normal University & former CASER postdoc) and Zhang Lifang on their new article in Sociology Compass! “Social Inequality in Early Childhood Development in China” 👏

📢 New Publication Congrats to Donglin Zeng (former Postdoc at CASER), Xiaogang Wu, and Jia Miao! Their paper, “Risk of Exposure to COVID-19 and Informal Social Control in Hong Kong: the Mediating Role of Social Cohesion,” is now online in Social Forces.

📢 New Publication Congratulations to Assistant Professor Lucas G. Drouhot on the publication of “Shades of Égalité: Educational Mobility and Ethnoracial Hierarchy Over Three Generations in France” in the American Sociological Review.

📢 New Publication A new paper by Dr. Yi Zhang (Xiamen University; Visiting Research Fellow at NYU CASER) and Prof. Xiaogang Wu has been published in Social Science Research (Vol. 133, Jan 2026). “Public Housing and Neighborhood Composition in Hong Kong, 1981–2016”

📢 New Publication Congrats to Minghao Tang and Prof. Xiaogang Wu on their article in Social Science Research: “Family background, romantic experience and realistic attitudes toward love in China.”(Vol. 134, Feb 2026) #NYU #SocialScienceResearch

📢 Upcoming Talk A Tale of Two Periods: Changes in Asian Americans’ Mobility Over the Last Century 🗓️ Nov 13, 8:30–9:50 PM (Beijing) 🎙️ Xi Song, Schiffman Family Presidential Professor, University of Pennsylvania #Sociology #NYUShanghai #CASER #AsianAmericanStudies

📢 New Publication NYU Shanghai’s Adjunct Research Fellow Yi Zhang and Assistant Professor Jia Miao publish in Social Science & Medicine (Vol. 384, 2025): Streetview images and survey data show less neighborhood disorder → better mental health, especially for low-SES residents.

📢 Join us at NYU Shanghai for a lecture: “Gifts as Binding Signals: Social Contacts and Gifts in Europe” 🎙️ Prof. Berkay Özcan (NYU Abu Dhabi) 🗓 Oct 9, 2025 | 8:00–9:30 PM Beijing Time 📍 Online via Zoom (Scan to Register)