Sha Jiang - Research

Publications

[2025 (forthcoming)] Sha Jiang, Wenyun Zuo, Zhen Guo, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. "Changing demographic rates reshape kinship networks." Demography.
[2025] Sha Jiang, Wenyun Zuo, Zhen Guo, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. "When to claim a pension: the effect of uncertainty in ages at death." Genus 81 (5).
[2023] Sha Jiang, Wenyun Zuo, Zhen Guo, Hal Caswell, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. "How the demographic transition affects kinship networks: a formal demographic approach" Demographic Research 48(32): 899-930.
[2022] Sha Jiang, Harman Jaggi, Wenyun Zuo, Madan K. Oli, Tim Coulson, Jean-Michel Gaillard, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. "Reproductive dispersion and damping time scale with life-history speed." Ecology Letters 25, no. 9 (2022): 1999-2008.
[2021] Peng, Yuan, Lin Dong, Haili Liang, Liuqing Yang, Sha Jiang, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Zhen Guo. "The changing trend of life expectancy for the Chinese elderly and its rural–urban disparity." China Population and Development Studies 5 (2021): 25-40.
[2018] Zuo, Wenyun, Sha Jiang, Zhen Guo, Marcus W. Feldman, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. "Advancing front of old-age human survival." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115, no. 44 (2018): 11209-11214.
[2017] Guo, Zhen, and Sha Jiang. "Research on the dispersion of the age pattern of fertility in China." Chinese Journal of Population Science (06):32-42+126. In Chinese.

Under Review

Working Papers

Sha Jiang, Haili Liang, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Emilio Zagheni. "Navigating aging with limited kin in China: The role of education in family support networks".
Sha Jiang, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Pil H. Chung, and Monica Alexander. "Intergenerational support and aging: Measuring kin-based dependency in a changing world".
Sha Jiang, Wenyun Zuo, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. "Lifetime reproductive success provides a novel perspective on human fertility change".
Sha Jiang, Joshua Goldstein. "Understanding mortality convergence: A comparative study on different mortality selection models"
Zhiwen Zheng, Xiangyun Pang, Sha Jiang, Zhen Guo. "Application of kinship network on Chinese family care for the elderly: kin-based dependency ratio and household saving rates".

Presentations

[2025]"Navigating aging with limited kin in China: The role of education in family support networks", Flash session: Population Association of America 2025 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 11. [Poster]
[2025]"Lifetime reproductive success provides a novel perspective on human fertility change", Poster: Population Association of America 2025 Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 13. [Poster]
[2025] "Navigating aging with limited kin in China: The role of education in family support networks", Oral presentation: The Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association (ISA), Milan, Italy, Mar 25.
[2025] "Navigating aging with limited kin in China: The role of education in family support networks", Oral presentation: workshop "Navigating Aging and Health with Limited Family Ties: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Responses" at the National University of Singapore, Feb 6.
[2024] "Early-life Conditions and Survival: Results from Humans and Comparison across Species", Oral presentation: Ecological Association of 2024 America Annual Meeting (special symposium), Aug 8.
[2024]"Understanding Mortality Convergence: A Comparative Study on Different Mortality Selection Models", Poster: Population Association of America 2024 Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, April 18. [Poster]
[2024]"Family-Centered Insights into Demographic Change: The Kin-Based Dependency Ratio", Poster: Population Association of America 2024 Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, April 19. [Poster]
[2023]"Lifetime reproductive success provides a novel perspective on human fertility change", Lighting talk: 8th meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society, Paris, France, Mar 31.
[2023]"Changes in kinship in response to time-varying demographic rates", Poster: 8th meeting of the Evolutionary Demography Society, Paris, France, Mar 30. [Poster]
[2023] "Changing Demographic Rates Reshape Kinship Networks”, Oral presentation: Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research, Germany, Mar 22.
[2022] "How do changing vital rates influence kinship networks?", Demography Brown Bag Colloquium, Berkeley Population Sciences, UC Berkeley, Sept. 14 [Video]
[2022] "How do changing vital rates influence kinship networks?", Oral presentation: European Population Conference (EPC2022) [Slides]
[2022] "When to claim your pension: the effect of uncertainty in ages at death", Oral presentation: Grad Seminar, Biology Department, Stanford University
[2021] "When to claim your pension: the effect of uncertainty in ages at death", Oral presentation: XXIX International Population Conference (IPC2021)[Slides]
[2021] "The changing process of China's fertility level from an international perspective: based on research of fertility age pattern", Oral presentation: XXIX International Population Conference (IPC2021) [Slides]