Email: [email protected]
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Research Interests:
Aging and the Life Course; Health and Well-Being; Neighborhoods and Urban Sociology; Spatial Inequality; Environmental Sociology; Inequality; Social Networks

Jason WONG is a third-year Ph.D. student in Sociology at Yale University. He is a sociology and population health researcher in training.

His main research agenda examines the spatial dimensions of stratification and health disparities over the life course. One strand of his research focuses on the place-based determinants of health and life chances across environmental, state policy, economic, and welfare contexts. A second focus of his research investigates spatial inequality from the perspectives of human mobility and neighborhood connectedness. He applies quantitative and computational methods to mobile phone, Google Street View, social network, administrative, and survey data.

Beyond that, he is interested in the evolving nature of intergenerational family relationships across the life course in the early 21st century, with a particular focus on spousal spillovers of early-life disadvantage, parental educational expectations on children, grandparents’ involvement in childcare, and the family caregiving networks.

His articles have appeared in Health & Place, The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, The Gerontologist, Social Science Research, and Ageing & Society. He serves as the Newsletter editor for the ASA Section on Aging and the Life Course.
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