Kristin Liao
Biography
I am a PhD student in Sociology, a Master’s student in Statistics, a predoctoral trainee at the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) and a graduate student affiliate with the Social Inequality Data Science Lab (SIDS-lab). Interested in both formal and social demography, I study the social stratification and mobility of immigrants and other sociodemographic minorities, with a particular interest in inequalities in the labor market and families. For example, one of my work (coauthored with Prof. Andres Villarreal) examined the unequal effects of the COVID-19 epidemic on immigrants’ employment by race/ethnicity and gender.
Fields of Study
Demography, Social Stratification and Inequality, Immigrants in the US, Quantitative Methods
Research
I am currently studying 1) the heterogeneous returns to education among immigrant workers in the US labor market, 2) the effect of immigration on Mexican workers’ occupational status, 3) assortative mating patterns by intergenerational mobility trajectory, 4) gender disparity in nighttime use revealing “nighttime scare” that restricts women’s nighttime activities, and 5) immigrant integration from the perspective of daily time use patterns.
Publications
Liao, Kristin and Andrés Villarreal. 2022. “Unequal Effects of the COVID-19 Epidemic on Employment: Differences by Race/Ethnicity and Immigrant Status”. PLoS One. 17(11): e0277005. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277005
Awards & Grants
California Center for Population Research Predoctoral Traineeship (NICHD Traineeship), 2023-2024
UCLA Sociology Excellence in Teaching Award, 2023
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2023
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2023
Silton Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2022
UCLA Sociology Service Award, 2022
Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, 2022
Pearl Wang Fellowship, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 2021-2022
UCLA Grad Division Fellowship, 2020-2021
