Prof. Dai Haijing
Associate Professor
B.A. (Literature and Economics) (Peking University); M.S.W., M.A. (Sociology), Ph.D. (University of Michigan); RSW 3943 1830Research Interests
- Gender and social organization of care work
- Family dynamics and family care
- Community-based social welfare and social service
- Comparative welfare reforms
- Power inequality and resistance in post-socialist China
- Ethnography
- Dai, H. (Forthcoming in 2025). Beyond Market Meritocracy: Work and Family Care in Chinese Societies. Oxford University Press.
- Dai, H., Zhu, L., & Jiang, N. (Accepted). Health penalty of primary family caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Family Relations.
- Dai, H., Xia, L., Jiang, N., Liu, W. & Chen, S. (Accepted). The involution of middle-class tiger moms? An exploration of parental expectations in a coastal region of China. Journal of Family Studies.
- Dai, H. & Ma, G. (2024). The broken link: Learning habitus of rural students in county key high schools during COVID-19 related school closure in China. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 90, 100916.
- Dai, H., Ma, G., Jiang, N., & Gong, H. (2024). Behavioral and attitudinal support to zero-COVID policies among adolescents in a Chinese coastal area: direct experience and political socialization. Journal of Asian Public Policy, 17(2), 311–330.
- Dai, H., Jung, N., Li, N., & Hu, M. (2022). Market merits and family virtues: Family caregivers in the labor market of Hong Kong. The China Review, 22(3), 325-351.
- Dai, H., Jiang, N., & Li, R. (2022). Social worker turnover under the Lump Sum Grant Subvention System in Hong Kong: Organization-level analyses. British Journal of Social Work, 52, 1683-1702.
- Dai, H. (2019). Embracing urbanity: Childcare arrangements and motherhood anxiety in China’s urban transition. Journal of Family Issues, 40(17), 2389–2411.
Selected Projects
- Family Life and Social Stratification in the Post-COVID World (Collaborators: Zhejiang University, National Seoul University, and Columbia University)
- Head-Start of China (Collaborators: Zhejiang University and New York University - Shanghai)
- Work and Family Life under Platform Capitalism in China (Collaborator: Zhejiang University