READI

Sponsored by the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China (CCC), the Office of Population Research (OPR), and the Global Japan Lab (GJL), the Research on East Asian Demography and Inequality (READI) is an invite only monthly forum that aims to share work in progress while building connections across junior and senior scholars working on China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

The seminar will meet virtually once a month, on the second Tuesday of each month from 8:30-10:00PM EST (9:30AM in Tokyo/Seoul, 8:30AM in Beijing). The time is chosen to facilitate live participation on both sides of the pacific. 

READI is collaborative, inviting participants to present their works in progress to the group for discussion.

For more information, please visit www.readi.ccc.princeton.edu

Logistics

  1. We will send out regular announcements regarding the talks with an RSVP link so we will know who plans to attend. Group members should feel free to recommend additional participants at any time (we are especially eager to welcome graduate students who are committed to work on demography and inequality in East Asia).
  2. The READI seminar will be held over Zoom Meeting. Turning on your video camera is strongly encouraged to help foster community and engagement, so please make sure you are in a well-lit area. Microphones will be automatically muted at the beginning of the seminar. When the floor is open to questions or comments, please remember to re-mute yourself once you are finished speaking.  
  3. Talks will be recorded for archiving but we do not plan to share/release them.
  4. China related papers are eligible to be in our Working Paper Series
  5. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the seminar coordinator at [email protected]

Past READI Events

Do No Harm, Do No Good: Ethics of Harmlessness and Social Solidarity in South Korea
Dec 10, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Chaeyoon Lim
University of Wisconsin
"Mother's Time to Return Home From Work and Child Obesity"
Nov 12, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Takuya Hasebe
Sofia University
Rising Youth Unemployment and Underemployment in China and Its Political Implications
Oct 8, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Yao Lu
Columbia University
Are Childcare Policies Effective in Encouraging Maternal Employment and Fertility?
Jul 11, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Miki Kohara
Osaka University
Flexibility Stigma Against Teleworkers from the Manager Perspective: The Roles of Gender-Parenthood Status and Teleworking Policy Contexts Abstract
May 14, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Senhu Wang
National University of Singapore
Periodicity of Sex Worker Touring: An Image Assisted Analysis
Apr 9, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Tianji Cai
University of Macau
Daily Life logic underlying the Changing Marriage Systems in Contemporary China: Middle Class Parents at the Matchmaking Corner in the Shanghai People’s Park
Mar 13, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Yingchun Ji
Shanghai University
The Declining Significance of Education for Promoting Equality
Feb 13, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Arthur Sakamoto
Hong Kong Baptist University
Cultural Differences in End-of-Life Care Planning: Findings from Qualitative Interviews in South Korea and the US
Jan 9, 2024, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Jung-Hwa Ha
Seoul National University
Family Structure and Reproductive Success across Family Systems: East Asia, 1700-1950
Nov 14, 2023, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Hao Dong
Peking University
Understanding Disability of Older Adults in China: Theoretical Reflection and Policy Implication from the Measurement Perspective
Sep 12, 2023, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Quishi Feng
National University of Singapore
Perceptions of Social Mobility in South Korea: A Vignette Study
Jun 13, 2023, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Sun-Jae Hwang
Chungnam National University
The Rise of the Childless Single in South Korea
May 9, 2023, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Kate Choi
Western University
Later and Less Marriage in Japan: Plausible Explanations and Evidence from Longitudinal Studies
Mar 13, 2023, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Wei-hsin Yu
UCLA
The Power of Culture: Imperial Civil Exam, Family SES, and Children’s Education Achievement in Contemporary China.
Feb 14, 2023, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Airan Liu
Peking University
"Why is fertility low in Japan? Research on the behavioral and biological correlates of fertility and fecundity”
Dec 13, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Shoko Konishi
The University of Tokyo
Are Economic Growth and Well-Being Compatible? Welfare Reform and Life Satisfaction in Japan
Nov 8, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Hiroshi Ono
Hitotsubashi University Business School School of International Corporate Strategy
The Media and Public (Mis)Perception of Inequality in China
Oct 11, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Xi Song
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Enclaves: Mate Preferences and Platform Choices Among Chinese Immigrant Online Daters
Sep 13, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Yue Qian
University of British Columbia (Vancouver)
"Retirement Trajectories and Health in Japan"
Aug 9, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Masaaki Mizuochi
Nanzan University
The Expanding Search for Work: Gender Gap of Rural Chinese People’s Livelihood Changes from 1989 to 2015
Jun 14, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Yuying Tong
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Immigrant women in the Japanese labor and marriage markets: Double disadvantage or exception?
May 10, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Kikuko Nagayoshi
University of Tokyo
The Second Hurdle: Widening Gender Gaps at the Early Stage of Work Careers among College Graduates in South Korea
Apr 12, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor ChangHwan Kim
University of Kansas
Contingent Legitimation of Pay Differentials in Reform China: A Paradox of Effects Heterogeneity
Mar 8, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Tony Tam
Chinese University of Hong Kong
How much is a super-aged society inclusive? Focusing on redistribution in Japan
Feb 8, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Sawako Shirahase
The University of Tokyo
Inter-generational relationship in Chinese families with multiple children: A family system view
Jan 11, 2022, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Ting Li
Renmin University of China
Achievement Gaps before School in Singapore
Nov 9, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
National University of Singapore
Reconfiguring Social Disconnectedness and Its Link to Subjective Well-being among Older Men and Women in Rural China
Oct 12, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Feinian Chen
University of Maryland
Educational Assortative Mating and Motherhood Penalty in China
Sep 14, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Cheng Cheng
Singapore Management University
Work, Marriage, and Children in Korea: Exploration of Health Implications for Women
Aug 10, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Hyeyoung Woo
Portland State University
Ethnic Identification in China: Policies, Gender, and Social Contexts
Jul 13, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Zheng Mu
National University of Singapore
Predicting School Dropout among South Korean Adolescents: A Machine Learning Approach
Jun 8, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Yoonsun Han
Seoul National University
Understanding Fertility in China: A Contextual Approach
May 11, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Jia Yu
Peking University
Income Inequality in Japan from a Sociological Perspective
Apr 13, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Shin Arita
University of Tokyo
The Future of Unpaid Work: How will automation transform time spent on domestic and care work in the UK and Japan?
Mar 9, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Dr. Setsuya Fukuda
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (Tokyo)
Same Environment, Stratified Impacts? Air pollution, Extreme temperatures, and Birth weight in Southeast China
Feb 9, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Emily Hannum
University of Pennsylvania
Fertility Decline and Trends in Educational Gender Inequality in China
Jan 12, 2021, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Xiaogang Wu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Opting Out or Left Out? Gendered Pathways to Singlehood in South Korea
Dec 8, 2020, 8:30 pm
Speakers
  • Professor Paul Chang
    Harvard University
  • Professor Young-Mi Kim
    Yonsei University
The Role of Higher Education Expansion in Economic Inequality: A Case of South Korea
Nov 10, 2020, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Dohoon Lee
Yonsei University
What’s the Use? Low Fertility and Fathers’ Use of Childcare Leave in Japan
Oct 13, 2020, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Mary C. Brinton
Harvard University
The Luxury of Family: The Growing Education Divide in Family Life in South Korea
Sep 8, 2020, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Hyunjoon Park
University of Pennsylvania
Trends in Intergenerational Mobility and the OED Triangle in Japan
Aug 11, 2020, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Hiroshi Ishida
University of Tokyo
Employment Trajectories, Divorce, and Women’s Economic Well-Being in Japan
Jul 14, 2020, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor James Raymo
Princeton University
Chinese Family in Transition
Jun 16, 2020, 8:30 pm
Speaker
Professor Yu Xie
Princeton University