Meiying Li

Postdoc @Cornell University with research & teaching interests in Race, Gender, Stratification, Work, Family Policy, and Quantitative Methods

Journal Articles

Li, Meiying. (In Press) “Devaluation for whom? Feminization and wages in an economically polarized labor market, 2003-2019.” Social Forces Replication Package

  • Winner of the Robert D. Mare Graduate Student Paper Award (2024), American Sociological Association (ASA) Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility
  • Honorable Mention for the Burt Best Student Paper Award (2024), ASA Section on Economic Sociology
  • Awarded the Travel Award at RC28 (Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility of the International Sociological Association) Summer Meeting, 2022.

Li, Meiying. (2023) “Does Feminization Always Lead to A Decline in Earnings? Evidence from China’s Marketization (1988—2013).” Sociological Quarterly, 1-26.

Hook, Jennifer L., Meiying Li, Eunjeong Paek, and Brigid Cotter. (2022). “National Family Policies and the Occupational Segregation of Mothers in European Countries, 1999–2016.” European Sociological Review, 39(2), 280-300.

  • Finalist for the 2024 annual Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research (one of the 16 finalist chosen from over 2,500 research articles published in 2023 in the interdisciplinary field of work and family research internationally)

DiRago, Nicholas V., Meiying Li, Thalia Tom, Will Schupmann, Yvonne Carrillo, Carey M. Colleen, and Michael S. Gaddis. (2022) ”COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts and the Reproduction of Urban Spatial Inequality: Disparities Within Large US Cities in March and April 2021 by Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition.” Journal of Urban Health 99(2): 191-207

  • Finalist for the Jane Addams Article Award (2023), ASA Section on Community and Urban Sociology

Book Chapters

Hook, Jennifer and Meiying Li (2020). “Gendered Tradeoffs”. Chapter 11 (pp. 249-266) in The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy. Nieuwenhuis, R. and Van Lancker, W. (Eds.). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave.

Working Papers (available upon request)

Li, Meiying. “The Two Stages of Occupational Gender Integration: An Examination on the Declining Negative Effect of Occupational Feminization on Wages in the United States, 1960–2019”

Li, Meiying. “A Tale of Two Labor Markets—How the Wage Penalty for Entering Women’s Occupations Varies in Higher- and Lower-Skilled Occupations, United States 1997–2019”

Hook, Jennifer and Meiying Li. “National Work-Family Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap in European Countries, 1999–2019.”