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Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is a sociologist and demographer. She was born in Taiwan, received her Masters and Ph.D degrees in Sociology in the United States and Canada.

Academic career
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung has taught in University of Michigan and New York University. Currently, she is a professor at the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Research, Honours and Awards
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung is affiliated with the China Economic Research Center in Peking University, the National Poverty Center of the School of Public Policy and the Institute for Social Research in the University of Michigan, and the RAND Policy Research Corporation. She is a co-principal investigator of one of the longest running social science longitudinal surveys - Panel Study of Income Dynamics. She serves as an academic advisor to the Institute of Social Science Studies in Peking University. She is secretary/treasurer for the section of Children and Youth of the American Sociological Association.

Professor Yeung has received numerous awards, including those from the National Science Foundation, National Institute on Aging, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Yeung's current research and teaching focus on intergenerational studies, family and children’s well-being and policies, social inequality, and China’s socioeconomic and demographic transition.

Prof Yeung's publications appear in top scientific journals and include topics such as parental investment in children, work and family balance, ethnic disparities in educational attainment, poverty, and family wealth. Her most cited work includes those that address the impact of economic stress on families and the fatherhood issues. She has served on the editorial board for the Journal of Marriage and Family and Child Development and on numerous scientific review committees for the government. Her international experiences also include advising on large-scale longitudinal surveys in Asia, Europe, and Australia and to the United Nations.