Sangsoo Lee

I am a social demographer studying family, gender, and inequality across various stages of the life course. My research often takes a cross-national comparative perspective, with a regional focus on South Korea and other East Asian societies. I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Deputy Director of the Institute on Aging at Korea University. Previously, I held positions at New York University Shanghai and Ewha Womans University. I earned my PhD in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. 


I am currently pursuing three lines of work:


My work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Demographic Research, and Population Research and Policy Review, among other outlets.