Xinge Wu

Research interests: health and well-being; work and family; demography; aging and life course; quantitative and computational methods

Bio: Xinge is a Ph.D. student in Sociology. She has conducted research on the sociology of health, caregiving and family relations. Her earlier work investigated elder mistreatment by adult children caring for parents with dementia, as well as caregiving stress experienced by parents of children and adolescents with mental disorders in the Chinese cultural context, with attention to family values and caregiver stigma. Her current research examines wellbeing and health outcomes in later life through a life course perspective. She studies how cumulative disadvantages in work trajectories shape access to healthcare and contribute to health inequalities, and how gendered differences in work and family roles influence wellbeing and health after retirement.