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:
The first line of research investigates issues related to marital formation, dissolution, and repartnering.
The second project focuses on gender dynamics in marriage and family, with a particular emphasis on the implications of couples' relative socioeconomic status on their individual and marital lives.
The third research line examines how children's life chances and experiences are gendered and stratified across families and societies.
My work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Demographic Research, and Population Research and Policy Review, among other outlets.