HAO DONG ( )

363 Wallace Hall Phone: +1 (609) 258-7082

Princeton University Email: haodong@princeton.edu
Princeton, NJ 08544, United States Website: www.hdong.net
EMPLOYMENT

Princeton University
2016- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Postdoctoral Affiliate, Department of Sociology
Postdoctoral Affiliate, Office of Population Research
EDUCATION

Ph.D. Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 2016
Dissertation: Patriarchy, Family System and Kin Effects on Individual Demographic Behavior throughout the Life
Course: East Asia, 1678-1945
Committee: James Z. Lee (Advisor), Cameron Campbell, Christian Daniels, Jack Goldstone (George Mason
University), Rebecca Sear (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Xiaogang Wu

Visiting Student Sociology, Utrecht University Feb. June 2014

Host: Ineke Maas

M.Phil. Social Science, HKUST 2012

LL.B. Sociology (major), Zhejiang University 2010
Public Administration (minor), Chu Kochen Honors College
Exchange Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University Sept. Dec. 2008
RESEARCH INTEREST

Social Demography, esp. Family, Kinship, Migration, and Health; Social Stratification and Mobility; Life Course; Multi-
Genertaional Socioeconomic and Demogranic Processes; Comparative Historical Demography
SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION (@: OPEN ACCESS)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

11. Siwei Fu, Hao Dong, Weiwei Cui, Jian Zhao, Huamin Qu. How Do Ancestral Traits Shape Family Trees Over
Generations? IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Forthcoming. @Prototype demo
[2016 Impact Factor: 2.840, ranking 14/106 in Computer Science, Software Engineering-SCI]

10. @Hao Dong, and Satomi Kurosu. Postmarital Residence and Child Sex Selection: Evidence from Northeastern
Japan, 1716-1870. Demographic Research. Forthcoming.
[2016 Impact Factor: 1.320, ranking 12/26 in Demography-SSCI]

9. @Hao Dong, Matteo Manfredini, Satomi Kurosu, Wenshan Yang, and James Z. Lee. 2017. Kin and Birth Order
Effects on Male Child Mortality: Three East Asian Populations, 1716-1945. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(2):
208-216.
[2016 Impact Factor: 3.383, ranking 2/39 in Social Sciences, Biomedical-SSCI; 2/14 in Psychology, Biological-SSCI; 9/51 in Behavioral
Science-SCIE]

8. @Satomi Kurosu, Miyuki Takahashi, and Hao Dong. 2017. Marriage, Household Context and Socioeconomic
Differentials: Evidence from a Northeastern Town in Japan, 1729-1870. Essays in Economic and Business History,
XXXV(1): 235-259

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7. @HaoDong, Cameron Campbell, Satomi Kurosu, Wenshan Yang, and James Z. Lee. 2015. New Sources for
Comparative Social Science: Historical Population Panel Data from East Asia. Demography, 52(3): 1061-1088.
[2014 Impact Factor: 2.616, ranking 1/25 in Demography-SSCI]

6. @Hao Dong, Cameron Campbell, Satomi Kurosu, and James Z. Lee. 2015. Household Context and Individual
Departure: The Case of Escape in Three Unfree Populations in East Asia, 1700-1900. Chinese Journal of Sociology,
1(4): 515-539.
5. @Hao Dong, and James Z. Lee. 2014. Kinship Matters: Long-Term Mortality Consequences of Childhood
Migration, Historical Evidence from Northeast China, 1792-1909. Social Science & Medicine,119: 274-283.
[2013 Impact Factor: 2.558, ranking 5/37 in Social Sciences, Biomedical-SSCI; 19/143 in Public, Environmental & Occupational Health-SSCI;
41/162 in Public, Environmental & Occupational Health-SCIE]
Travel Award, Population Association of America
Best Postgraduate Research Award, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST

In Chinese
4. @ChenLiang, Hao Dong, Yunzhu Ren, and James Z. Lee. 2017. Changes in the Social and Geographical Origins of
Chinas Educated Elites, 1865-2014, Sociological Studies 3: 48-70. ( ,,,
1865-2014,)

3. Chen Liang, Hao Dong, and James Z. Lee. 2017 forthcoming. Historical Science in the Era of Internet. Journal of
Literature, History and Philosophy (, , ,)
2. @ChenLiang, Hao Dong, and James Z. Lee. 2015. Big Microdata and Historical Research. Historical Research, 2:
113-128. (,, ,)
1. @Chen Liang and Hao Dong. 2015. Construction and Analysis of Big Historical Micro-Level Data Chinese Journal
of Sociology, 35(2): 94-108 (, , )
Data Documentation
3. @Hao Dong, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee. 2015. Longitudinal Links to Construct the Korean Multi-Generational
Panel Dataset Tansung (KMGPD-TS) from the Tansung Household Registers. Data Documentation. Hong Kong, China:
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Institutional Repository.
2. @Cameron Campbell, Hao Dong, and James Z. Lee. 2014. China Multigenerational Panel Dataset (CMGPD) Training
Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
1. @Hongbo Wang, Shuang Chen, Hao Dong, Matthew Noellert, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee. 2013. China
Multi-Generational Panel Dataset, Shuangcheng (CMGPD-SC) 1866-1914. User Guide. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research
WORKING PROJECTS

Working papers
8. Trends in Educational Assortative Marriage in China (with Yu Xie)
7. Multigenerational Family Structure and Migration in Rural China (with Yu Xie)
6. Demographic Transition and Intergenerational Mobility: The Netherlands, 1850-1957 (with Ineke Maas).
Aage. B. Srensen Memorial Student Travel Award, Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28),
International Sociological Association

5. Who Wants to Study Overseas? Academic Performance versus Family Background of Chinese College Students (with
Wenhui Yang)
4. Determinants of Interethnic Marriage in 19th Century China (with Bijia Chen and Cameron Campbell)
3. Marriages are Made in Heaven? The Influence of Extended Family in East Asia, 1688-1945

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2. Extended Families and Reproduction in East Asia, 1678-1945
1. Old-age Mortality in Joint and Stem Families: A Comparison between northeast China and Japan, 1716-1909
Selected Projects in Progress
Couples Status Exchange in China (with Yu Xie)
Trends of Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the East and West (with Yu Xie)
Educational Opportunity and Social Transformation in China, 1865-2014 (with James Z. Lee, Chen Liang, Cameron
Campbell, Bijia Chen, and Yunzhu Ren)
Book project tentatively commissioned to Princeton University Press

Constructing Big Data for Japanese Historical Population, 1700-1900 (with Satomi Kurosu)
EXTERNALLY FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS

4. Collaborator (Principle Investigator: Satomi Kurosu). Longitudinal Study of Population, Economy, and Family:
Construction of Multigenerational Panel Database Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology-Supported Program for the Strategic Research Foundation at Private Universities No. S1591001L,
2015-2019 (JP 45,000,000 [~US$395,000])
3. Collaborator (Principle Investigator: Satomi Kurosu; other Collaborators: Cameron Campbell, Sangkuk Lee,
Wenshan Yang). Comparative Study of Population and Family Using Historical Demographic Data in East Asia
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) No. 15H03139, 2015-2019
(JP 710,000,000 [~US$6,233,000])

2. Co-Investigator (PI: James Z. Lee; other Co-I: Cameron Campbell, Satomi Kurosu, Wenshan Yang). Human
Agency and Population Behavior in Historical and Comparative Perspective: New Discoveries from East Asian
Panel Data. Hong Kong Research Grants Council Project No.16400714, 2014-2016 (HK$ 638,000 [~US$82,000])
1. Collaborator (Principle Investigator: Satomi Kurosu). Construction of Database for Population and Economic
History, Reitaku Archives Grant for Archive Construction, Reitaku Institute of Political Economics and Social
Studies, 2014-2015 (JP 755,000 [~US$7,000])
HONORS AND AWARDS

2017-2018 Teaching Fellowship in Scientific Writing, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University (declined)
2012-2016 Awardee, Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS), Hong Kong Research Grants Council
(HK$1,000,000 [~US$130,000])
My 2012 cohort: 135 awardees selected from 4000+ applicants (from 40+ countries / regions) for PhD in all disciplines

2015 Aage. B. Srensen Memorial Student Travel Award, Research Committee on Social Stratification and
Mobility (RC28), International Sociological Association (US$750)
2014 Best Postgraduate Research Award, School of Humanities and Social Science, HKUST (HK$5,000 [~US$650])

2014 Overseas Research Award, HKUST (HK$38,343 [~US$5,000])

2012 Travel Award, Population Association of America
2011-2012 Research Travel Grant, HKUST (HK$16,282 [~US$2,000])
2010-2012 Research Postgraduate Studentship, HKUST (HK$326,400 [~US$42,000])
2006-2010 Excellent Student Leadership, Triple A Student, and Excellence in Arts and Sports, Zhejiang University
2010 Chu Kochen Honors Certificate, Zhejiang University
2008 Overseas Exchange Scholarship, Zhejiang University (CN6,000 [~US$1,000])

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Invited Talks
2017 University of Minnesota, Minnesota Population Center Seminar Series (USA) scheduled on Nov. 27
Princeton University, Office of Population Research Notestein Seminar Series (USA) scheduled on Oct. 3
Harvard University, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies CBDB Friday Talk Series (USA)
2016 Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Economic Research (Japan)
Kagawa University, Department of Humanity and Environmental Studies (Japan)
Reitaku University, Population and Family History Project (Japan)
2015 Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Economic Research (Japan)
Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Political Science and Department of Sociology (China)
Zhejiang University, School of Public Affairs (China)
2014 Utrecht University, Department of Sociology (Netherlands)
Wageningen University, School of Social Sciences (Netherlands)
Radboud University Nijmegen, Department of History (Netherlands)
2013 Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Economics (China)
Shanxi University, Department of History (China)
Reitaku University, Population and Family History Project (Japan)
2012 Academia Sinica, Program for Historical Demography (Taiwan)

Conference Panel Presentations

(* presented by the first author. ASA: American Sociological Association; EPC: European Population Conference, ESHD: European Society of
Historical Demography; ICHS: International Congress of Historical Science; ISA RC28: International Sociological Association Research Committee
28 on Social Stratification and Mobility; IEEE VAST: IEEE Conference on Visul Analytics Science and Technology; IUSSP IPC: International
Union for the Scientific Study of Population International Population Conference; PAA: Population Association of America; PAJ: Population
Association of Japan; SSHA: Social Science History Association; WEHC: World Economic History Congress)

Hao Dong. Extended Family Norms, Co-resident Kin and Reproduction in East Asia, 1678-1945. WEHC Kyoto,
Japan 2015; SSHA Chicago, USA 2016; ESHD Leuven, Belgium 2016; ISA RC28 Singapore 2016; IUSSP IPC
Cape Town, South Africa 2017
*Siwei Fu, Hao Dong, Weiwei Cui, Jian Zhao, Huamin Qu. How Do Ancestral Traits Shape Family Trees Over
Generations? IEEE VAST Phoenix, USA 2017
Hao Dong and Yu Xie. Multi-Generational Family Structure and Migration in Rural China PAA Chicago, USA 2017
Hao Dong and Satomi Kurosu. Post-Marital Residence and Child Sex Selection: Evidence from Northeastern Japan,
1716-1870. PAJ Kashiwa, Japan 2016; SSHA Chicago, USA 2016; PAA Chicago, USA 2017
Hao Dong Marriages are Made in Heaven? The Influence of Extended Family in East Asia, 1688-1945 SSHA Chicago,
USA 2016
*James Z. Lee, Hao Dong, and Tommy Bengtsson. Inequality and Hard Times in the Past: From Euraisa to East Asia.
Invited Plenary Talk, ESHD Leuven, Belgium 2016
*Bijia Chen, Cameron Campbell, and Hao Dong Determinants of Interethnic Marriage in 19th Century China. PAA
San Diego, USA 2015; SSHA Baltimore, USA 2015; ESHD Leuven, Belgium 2016
Hao Dong Living Arrangements and Old-Age Mortality across East Asian Extended Family Norms, 1716-1945. SSHA
Baltimore, USA 2015; ICHS Jinan, China 2015; ISA RC28 Singapore 2016

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Hao Dong and Youjin Lee. New Sources for Comparative History and Social Science: Historical Population Data from
East Asia. ICHS Jinan, China 2015
Hao Dong and Ineke Maas. Demographic Transition and Intergenerational Mobility: The Netherlands, 1850-1957. ISA
RC28 Tilburg, The Netherlands 2015
Hao Dong, Cameron Campbell, and James Z. Lee. Kin Networks and Social Mobility: New Evidence from a Natural
Experiment in Imperial China. SSHA Toronto, Canada 2014
Hao Dong, Satomi Kurosu, Wenshan Yang, and James Z. Lee. Kin and Birth Order Effects on Male Child Mortality:
Three East Asian Populations, 1716-1945. ISA RC28 Budapest, Hungary 2014; EPC Budapest, Hungary 2014;
ASA San Francisco, USA 2014
Hao Dong, Cameron Campbell, Satomi Kurosu, and James Z. Lee. Household Context and Individual Departure: The
Case of Escape in Three Unfree Populations in East Asia, 1700-1900. SSHA Vancouver, Canada 2012 & Chicago,
USA 2013; IUSSP IPC Busan, South Korea 2013
Hao Dong and James Z. Lee. Kinship Matters: Long-Term Mortality Consequences of Childhood Migration, Historical
Evidence from Northeast China, 1792-1909. PAA San Francisco, USA 2012; IUSSP IPC Busan, South Korea 2013

Invited Workshops
2016 IUSSP and Reitaku University, Linking Past to Present: Long-Term Perspectives on Micro-Level Demographic
Processes (Japan)
2015 Academia Sinica, Workshop of East Asian Historical Demography (Taiwan)
Wageningen University, Power of the Family. (Netherlands)
Sungkyunkwan University, Issues of Historical Demography of East Asia: Inequality Origins and Matters from
Comparative Perspectives (South Korea)
2014 Lund University, 7th Annual PhD Conference in Economic Demography (Sweden)
HKUST, Rewriting the Past: Historical Big Data and a Scholarship of Discovery (Hong Kong)
2011 UCLA, Historical Migration in East Asia (USA)

TEACHING

Lecturer
Coursera.com: Understanding China, 1700-2000: A Data Analytic Approach (co-teaching with James Z. Lee)
Four-week massive open online course (MOOC). Instruction language: English.
First round offered in November and December 2015 (https://www.coursera.org/course/newchinahistory2)
3170 enrolled students from 118 countries (63% Males; 33% Asian, 30% European, 28% North American; 83% holding a bachelor
or above degree); ~50% students finished all the 20 lectures; ~12500 total lecture views
Second round scheduled in late 2017

Guest lecturer
Princeton University: Contemporary China (UG)
- Three lectures on Hukou and Migration, Gender, and Family

Teaching Associate/Assistant
Princeton University: Categorical Data Analysis (PG); Global Seminar Contemporary Chinese Society (UG)
HKUST: A New History for a New China, 1700-2000 (PG); Population and Economic Development in China (UG);
Population and Society (UG); Social Science Research Design and Methods (PG)
NICHD-funded summer school: China Multi-Generational Panel Data Training Workshop (PG & above)

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PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Administrative Service
Committee on Postgraduate Studies, University Senate, HKUST, 2013-2015
Association and Conference Service
Chair and Discussant, IUSSP IPC 2017 Session Life course trajectories in formation and dissolution of families and
households
Ambassador, Association for Young Historical Demographers, 2016-
Co-organizer (with Tommy Bengtsson), WEHC 2015 Session Demographic Differentials by Wealth and Status
Chair and Discussant, ESSHC 2014 Session Social Homogamy
Organizer, SSHA 2013 Session Altruistic Effects of Kin
Occasional Reviewer
Demographic Research, Demography, History of the Family, PlosOne, Population Horizons, Scientific Reports, Social Science & Medicine
Professional Association Membership
ASA, EAPS, ESHD, ISA RC28, IUSSP, PAA, PAJ, SSHA
Visiting Researcher
Reitaku University, Population and Family History Project, April 2013, March 2015, January-July 2016 (Japan)
Academia Sinica, Program for Historical Demography, July 2012 (Taiwan)
OTHER INFORMATION

Language: Mandarin Chinese (native), English (fluent)

Statistical packages: Stata, R, Mplus
Classical violinist: Occasional semi-professional solo, chamber, and orchestra performances in Mainland China, Hong
Kong, and United States
A short musical bio and some recent performance videos are available at my website

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