Sinn Won Han
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I am a social demographer studying low fertility challenges in the postindustrial world. Under this overarching theme, my ongoing research explores several agendas as follows: (1) long-term labor market transformations, growing fundamental uncertainty, and their implications for the ongoing decline in period fertility rates in economically advanced moderate-fertility societies (e.g., the Nordic countries, US), (2) sources of the post-1990 divergence in fertility between South Korea and Japan, and (3) the left-right political fertility gap hypothesis and its empirical validity in advanced industrial democracies.
I am a social demographer studying low fertility challenges in the postindustrial world. Under this overarching theme, my ongoing research explores several agendas as follows: (1) long-term labor market transformations, growing fundamental uncertainty, and their implications for the ongoing decline in period fertility rates in economically advanced moderate-fertility societies (e.g., the Nordic countries, US), (2) sources of the post-1990 divergence in fertility between South Korea and Japan, and (3) the left-right political fertility gap hypothesis and its empirical validity in advanced industrial democracies.
My doctoral dissertation, The Normative Foundations of Postindustrial Fertility Variation, explored the sources of the variation in fertility levels across high-income postindustrial countries. Questions that were addressed include (1) whether and how individuals' views and perceptions towards childbearing are shaped by the normative context varlorizing the desirable roles of men and women (Population and Development Review, European Sociological Review), and (2) how people's gender-role beliefs and visions of family life have differently evolved in different countries?
My doctoral dissertation, The Normative Foundations of Postindustrial Fertility Variation, explored the sources of the variation in fertility levels across high-income postindustrial countries. Questions that were addressed include (1) whether and how individuals' views and perceptions towards childbearing are shaped by the normative context varlorizing the desirable roles of men and women (Population and Development Review, European Sociological Review), and (2) how people's gender-role beliefs and visions of family life have differently evolved in different countries?
My previous research projects tested the predictions of two macro-level theoretical approaches—SDT theory & two-phase gender revolution theory—by analyzing diverging fertility trends in postindustrial regions of Europe since the 1990s (Population and Development Review) and analyzed cross-national trends in college-educated women's educational hypogamy (Demography).
My previous research projects tested the predictions of two macro-level theoretical approaches—SDT theory & two-phase gender revolution theory—by analyzing diverging fertility trends in postindustrial regions of Europe since the 1990s (Population and Development Review) and analyzed cross-national trends in college-educated women's educational hypogamy (Demography).
I teach and research at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow at the Research Hub of Population Studies at HKU. Before joining HKU, I was postdoctoral associate in Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. I received my doctoral degree in sociology at Harvard University.
I teach and research at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow at the Research Hub of Population Studies at HKU. Before joining HKU, I was postdoctoral associate in Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. I received my doctoral degree in sociology at Harvard University.
Photography by Brian Tam, HKU