Haowei Wang

Assistant Professor, Sociology Department

Senior Research Associate, Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion and Population Health

Courses

SOC 513 - Statistics for Social Science

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston, 2020

Bio

Haowei Wang is an assistant professor in the Maxwell School's Sociology Department. She received a Ph.D. in gerontology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston in 2020 and was trained as a postdoc scholar at the Population Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University.

Wang seeks to understand social determinants of healthy aging from a global perspective. In doing so, she is engaged in three areas of research: (1) to explore how demographic changes and social policies impact physical and mental health of aging populations, (2) to examine population aging and food insecurity in a global setting, and (3) to test how changing family dynamics influence well-being and caregiving in later life.

In addition, Wang currently has over 10 first-author articles published in highly regarded journals as well as a strong pipeline of projects in progress.

Research Interests

Aging and health disparities, population health, medical sociology, global families, COVID-19 and health outcomes, social statistics, computation methods

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Wang, H., Smith-Greenaway, E., Bauldry, S., Margolis, R., & Verdery, A. M.t (in press).

Mourning in a pandemic: The differential impact of widowhood on mental health during

COVID-19. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social

Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac085

Brown, M. J., Wang, H., Lin, 1-F., Gan, D., Oyeyemi, D., Manning, M., & Freedman, V. A.

(in press). COVID-19 related changes in assistance networks for older adults with and without

dementia. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social

Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac089

Wang, H., Kim, K., Burr, J. A., & Fingerman, K. L. (2022). Financial problems in established

adulthood: Implications for psychological well-being and relationship quality with parents.

Journal of Adult Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10804-022-09409-4

Wang, H., Verdery, A. M., Margolis, R., & Smith-Greenaway, E. (2021). Bereavement from

COVID-19, gender, and reports of depression among older adults in Europe. The Journals of

Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.

https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbabl 32

Newmyer, L., Verdery, A. M.t, Wang, H., & Margolis, R. (2022). Population aging,

demographic metabolism, and the rising tide of late middle age to older adult loneliness

around the world. Population and Development Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12506

Song, Q., Wang, H., & Burr, J. A. (2022). Depressive symptoms among rural "left-behind"

older adults: A test of the high outmigration penalty hypothesis. The Journals of Gerontology,

Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77(3), 592-603.

https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab040

Wang, H., Han, S. H., Kim, K., & Burr, J. A. (2022). Adult children's achievements and

ageing parents' depressive symptoms in China. Ageing and Society, 42(4), 896-917.

https:/ /doi.org/10.1017 /SO 144686X20001270

Book Chapters

Wang, H., Han, S., Xu, P., Mutchler, J. E., Du, P., & Burr, J. A. (2021). Family, friendship, and

loneliness among older Chinese adults: Urban-Rural Comparisons. In M. Silverstein (Ed.),

Aging Families in Chinese Society. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003015529-4

Other Publications

Smith-Greenaway, E., Verdery, A. M, Wang, H., & Bauldry, S. (2022). "l in 8 U.S. deaths from

2020 to 2021 came from COVID-19 - leaving millions of relatives reeling from distinctly

difficult grief'. The Conversation. Available at: https://theconversation.com/l-in-8-u-sdeaths-from-2020-to-2021-came-from-covid-19-leaving-millions-of-relatives-reeling-fromdistinctly-difficult-grief-186608