Airan Liu
Assistant Professor 
Center for Social Research
Peking University
Contact
Natural Science Building 5#
Room 634
Peking University
Yiheyuan Road 5#
Beijing, CN 100039
arliu@pku.edu.cn
I am an Assistant Professor in Center for Social Research, Peking University. My academic interest is in social stratification and inequality. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology and Public Policy (2017) from the University of Michigan, where I was also a trainee at the Population Studies Center. I received my B.A in Sociology and Economics (2011) from Peking University, China.

My research focuses on the following areas:
  • Child Development and Inequality. How the inequality gets produced in the process of child development during early life course.
  • Asian American. The well being and development of Asian American youth.
  • Quantitative Methodology. Causal inference in longitudinal data.
  • Comparative Studies. Child development in China and other social context.



















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