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Graduate Student

• Affiliation(s)

  • Joint PhD student with the Ford School of Public Policy Trainee, Population Studies Center Center for Chinese Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Social stratification and inequality
  • Quantitative Methodology

• About

  Siwei Cheng graduated with B.A. in Economics and B.Sc. in Statistics from Peking University, China. She is currently a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Sociology and a trainee at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, where she received a Master's degree in Statistics. Her research focuses on two areas. First, she employs the method of computational simulation as well as statistical analysis on real data to study the structural effect of the social context on racial segregation in social networks. Second, she takes a sociological approach towards topics related to earnings inequality. Specifically, she has investigated the role of occupation in determining the cross-sectional earnings inequality, and bring in the life course perspective to study the intracohort pattern of earnings inequality.

• Education

  • M.A. Statistics, University of Michigan B.A. Economics, Peking University, China B.Sc. Statistics, Peking University, China

• Research Areas of Interest

  • Earnings Inequality Work and occupations; Life course inequality and career trajectory; Social networks; China