Dr. Qin Gao, Professor at the Columbia School of Social Work and Director of the Columbia China Center for Social Policy, received a grant from the UNICEF to study multidimensional child poverty in China. Prof. Gao and her research team will examine the incidence, patterns, and determinants of child multidimensional poverty in the national, urban, rural, and migrant populations in China. They will also investigate the extent to which China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee (or Dibao) policy has helped address child poverty and promote child development.
Shu jung Li, a professor at the Department of Social Work, Soochow University, Taiwan, is a visiting scholar at the Columbia School of Social Work and the Columbia China Center for Social Policy during the 2019-2020 academic year. She shared her background, interests, and Columbia expectations in a recent written interview.
Dr. Jinyu Liu, associate professor in the Columbia School of Social Work and faculty of the China Center for Social Policy, received a $627,210 National Institute of Health (NIH) Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (often referred to as K01 award) for her research titled “Developing a culturally-sensitive volunteering program to reduce stress of dementia caregivers in Chinese American Communities.”
By the end of my one-year stay, I am deeply grateful to Columbia for having equipped me with the advanced tools and the inspiration to recommence my Ph.D. journey back home in Nanjing. I also feel I have developed an international network of scholars who share my interests in the Chinese welfare state—beginning with, of course, Professor Gao, who has generously shared both her knowledge and her contacts. I look forward to remaining connected with her and the Columbia network in the future.
By the end of my one-year stay, I am deeply grateful to Columbia for having equipped me with the advanced tools and the inspiration to recommence my Ph.D. journey back home in Nanjing. I also feel I have developed an international network of scholars who share my interests in the Chinese welfare state—beginning with, of course, Professor Gao, who has generously shared both her knowledge and her contacts. I look forward to remaining connected with her and the Columbia network in the future.
In a new study, Professor Qin Gao and her colleague found that for rural participants in China’s social safety net program, positive psychological effects outweigh the stigma surrounding participation in means-tested welfare.
China’s Minimum Livelihood Guarantee program, also known as Dibao, was launched nationwide in rural areas in 2007 as part of the government’s plan to address severe poverty. The rural Dibao has since grown to become the main welfare program in China and the largest social safety net program in the world, reaching nearly 54 million recipients at its peak in 2013. Professor…
Pengzhan Yang, a doctoral student at the School of Finance in Renmin University of China, is a visiting scholar at the Columbia School of Social Work and the Columbia China Center for Social Policy during the 2019-2020 academic year. He shared his background, interests, and Columbia expectations in a recent written interview.
Columbia has equipped me with the tools and the inspiration necessary to recommence, with renewed vigor, my PhD journey back home in France.
