Yeung's current research and teaching focus on intergenerational studies, family and children’s well-being and policies, social inequality, and China’s socioeconomic and demographic transition.
She has served on the editorial board for the Journal of Marriage and Family and Child Development and on numerous scientific review committees for the government.
Using longitudinal history in the PSID and data from the 1997 Child Development Supplement, this project will assess the extent to which social and economic involvement with children varies with fathers' changing life circumstances.
Using longitudinal history in the PSID and data from the 1997 Child Development Supplement, this project will assess the extent to which social and economic involvement with children varies with fathers' changing life circumstances.
Using a national sample of baby-boomers, both leading edge (born 1945-54) and trailing edge (born 1955-64), and prior cohorts with elderly parents, the analysis aims at examining differences across these groups in terms of: level and type of transfers, actual changes in work hours (short-run and long run), extent to which transfers engendered changes in work hours, and how individual histories of social, economic and demographic circumstances and behaviors relate to these outcomes.
With funding received from the National Science Foundation, this project examines the long-term trends of poverty and welfare receipts in U.S. Yeung documented the duration and patterns of poverty and welfare receipt for multiple cohorts of individuals in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, by different individual and family characteristics such as ethnicity, marital status, and age of the household head.
The project also examines intergenerational correlation between childhood poverty and young adult achievement such as educational attainment and welfare status.
Parts of the results from this project were used to support the production of the annual report on the indicators of poverty and welfare dependence by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
Yeung and Dalton Conley received a research grant from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development to examine the link between parental wealth and young children's physical and mental well-being.