She Left or He Left: Marriages at the Crossroads in Contemporary China
Divorce rates in China have increased dramatically, and women initiate over seventy percent of litigated divorces. My dissertation addresses this phenomenon by investigating gender differences in motivations, experiences, and outcomes of divorce litigations and how such differences are linked to the broader gender structure reconfigurations in the post-reform China. I compiled an original dataset based on a probability sample of 1064 divorce litigation records from 2014-2019 in a northern midsize city of China. I also conducted over 3 months of ethnographic observations in courts and collected 33 in-depth interviews of divorce plaintiffs.
On a similar topic, my collaborator and I used web scraping to retrieve over 10,638 divorce cases in the jurisdiction of Beijing to investigate pushing and pulling factors that predict women being the plaintiff in divorce litigation. |
Motherhood Penalty and Workplace Discrimination under Three-Child PolicyThis study investigates the consequences of motherhood status for the employment outcomes of non-mothers and mothers under the three-child policy in China. By experimentally holding constant the qualifications and experience of three fictitious job applications and varying only their parental status, this project can directly test the independent effect of motherhood status on the likelihood of callbacks in real-life employment settings. The findings of this research will unpack mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against women with different motherhood statuses, which is an interest for any country that wants to tackle one of the most durable social inequalities in the world.
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Public Evaluations of Sentencing Judgments of Sexual ViolenceThis study examines how a survivor’s age influences individuals’ perceptions of appropriate criminal sentencing toward perpetrators of rape. By conducting vignette survey experiments, my collaborator and I test whether participants’ perceptions and recommendations of sanctioning toward rape offenders vary significantly by survivors' age. The findings of this study will provide insights in understanding how extralegal factors such as diffused stereotypes of social groups shape evaluations of the punitive decisions, which can hinder the access to justice for the most vulnerable.
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