Sha Jiang

Demographer & "Professional" Cat Sitter 🐈| Postdoc @MPIDRnews | @Stanford, Biology '23 | @HuazhongUST, Sociology '19

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

Lifespan is uncertain, even for well-informed individuals. We show that this irreducible demographic risk increases with delayed pension claiming and hits male and low-income groups harder. https://t.co/Ioo9iXQi69

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

How would peers of similar ages experience different kinship networks? The speed of demographic transition is the key.

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

🆕📰 Rapid Demographic Changes Reshape Family Structures: Accelerated demographic change is creating significant differences in the number of relatives between peers of similar ages shows a study by Sha Jiang et al. in @ReadDemography. https://t.co/uZCFRlybgh
@Stanford @2024_HUST

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

Check out our work on pension claiming in the U.S. 💸

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

🔦[SPOTLIGHT] Should you Claim Your #Pension Early or Wait? Retiring later increases the monthly pension amount in the 🇺🇲. Sha Jiang et al. have investigated whether this is optimal, given the uncertainties surrounding #LifeSpan. What they found:
https://t.co/DIU1MJxWYR

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

Happy to share my paper on kinship networks!

[Demography Journal @ReadDemography]

In “Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks,” @ShaJiang44, W Zuo, Z Guo & S Tuljapurkar “explore how demographic transition, especially the speed of transition, affects the number and age of kin” & change in kin networks. @Stanford @MPIDRnews https://t.co/nSC5vb3zri

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

Excited to join this amazing program as a supervisor—a new and meaningful role for me! 🤓Grateful to everyone who made this event possible!👏

[IMPRS-PHDS @IMPRS_PHDS]

💡💡💡We are delighted to welcome @IMPRS_PHDS students and their supervisors to the Annual Academy 2024 @MPIDRnews. We're looking forward to two more days of student and faculty presentations, networking, and sharing future research endeavors. 🎓🎓🎓
#demography #phdlife #PhD

[Berkeley Population Sciences @BPC_UCBerkeley]

Our final Brownbag of the semester will be on Wed, Nov 20 at 12pm with Yuan Peng, Graduate Visiting Researcher Student at Stanford University. Title: “Mortality Variation Across U.S. States and Counties.” Join us at 310 Social Sciences or via Zoom. https://t.co/UhGlzfSDYl

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

Are you a #student who is interested in #Demography and #DataScience & you have no plans for ☀️#summer 2025 yet? Look no more! @MPIDRnews has just the program for you: Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program! Apply until Jan 8, 2025 https://t.co/c6YPq0Gize

[Diego Alburez @d_alburez]

A new analysis of Norwegian registries finds an association between family transitions and wealth differences over the life course, shedding light on the role of family structures and dynamics in reproducing social inequalities. Great work by @BHuenteler, @theresanutz, @JoWoern!

[Diego Alburez @d_alburez]

Even if all hostilities were to cease immediately, we estimate it would take over 50 years of uninterrupted peace to reduce the proportion of bereaved individuals in the Palestinian population to a quarter of current levels. New article w/ @Acosta_Kike_ 👇 https://t.co/f9DVQhXeje

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

Welcome Weeks @MPIDRnews are starting with
@ShaJiang44. She joins the Research Group Kinship Inequalities and the Laboratory of Population Dynamics and Sustainable Well-being. Hello Sha! Welcome to the institute! https://t.co/o71UPf5gS7
#newjob #hello #welcome #poptwitter

[Diego Alburez @d_alburez]

Going to #IPC2025? Please consider sending your work to 'Session 18. Family networks beyond the household: an international perspective', which I will chair. Not sure if it's a good fit? Happy to answer any questions about the appropriateness of the session for your work!

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

Happy to comment on this impressive work!!

[Diego Alburez @d_alburez]

Nice reporting by @sciam of the large changes in family structures that we expect in the future and the challenges for social policy that they will imply, with excellent commentary from @ShaJiang44 and @AVerdery!

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

Congrats @d_alburez ! Awesome paper on kinship projections! 🥳 P.S. The word "niblings" made a nerdy appearance on the TV show "Young Sheldon"; everyone asked Sheldon the same question too!

[Diego Alburez @d_alburez]

We wrote something about kinship and the most common question I get is: what are 'niblings'?! Niblings are nieces/nephews, not something you snack on😂 Also, here is the paper; please cite it 👇
https://t.co/htquAXHvy0

[Sha Jiang @ShaJiang44]

Delighted to be a part of this excellent work by @fhill_official. Cousins exist in a distinctive gray area between closeness and distance. The shrinking of American families, notably among cousins, raises questions about its impact on cousin relationships.

[Diego Alburez @d_alburez]

I enjoyed talking to @fhill_official about cousins for her piece 'The Great Cousin Decline' featuring other kinship demographers: "With fewer of them around, cousins may need to depend on one another even more. Families are shrinking—but that doesn’t mean they need to come apart"