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Xi Song
@xisong
Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies @Columbia @ColumbiaSoc studying occupations, AI/future of work, Asian Americans, and social mobility
Philadelphia, PA
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    May 13, 2022
    I am truly humbled by this. It means a lot to me. The students probably didn’t know that a lot of the advice they received from me were given by other colleagues in our department, who patiently answered my questions about mentoring via long phone calls, emails, and meetings.
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    Sociology at Penn
    @SociologyatPenn
    May 12, 2022
    Since 2019, graduate students recommend and vote on a faculty member who has gone above and beyond in mentoring graduate students. GSS is pleased to name Professor @xisong as the 2021-2022 Mentor of the Year! 🎉
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    Xi Song
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    Feb 14, 2022
    Intergenerational mobility has declined dramatically in China, but it is still higher than that in the United States.
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    Yu Xie
    @YuXie3
    Feb 13, 2022
    Hot off the press: "Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China" PNAS by Xie, Dong, Zhou, and Song. pnas.org/content/119/7/…
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Nov 8, 2019
    This finally came out! The RR took us almost 1.5 years and so many times I thought that we won’t be able to send back the revisions. @siwei_cheng
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    Ang Yu
    @AngYu_soci
    Nov 8, 2019
    Linked Lives, Linked Trajectories: Intergenerational Association of Intragenerational Income Mobility - Siwei Cheng, Xi Song, journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jun 14, 2023
    First time to do a podcast on social mobility and inequality with @sndurlauf sponsored by the @UCStoneCenter at @UChicago @HarrisPolicy More information about where to listen to this podcast coming soon!
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    Xi Song
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    Jun 8, 2023
    This marks an important professional milestone for both Alex and me! As the *first* dissertation I chaired, I am grateful to Alex for entrusting me with this important role.
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    Alex Adames
    @socinequality
    Jun 7, 2023
    Happy to announce that I successfully defended my dissertation and will be joining @PUSociology as a postdoc this fall! Extremely grateful to my committee and @xisong for being a wonderful advisor and to the lasting friendships I made that have been a source of enduring support!
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jul 31, 2024
    I am glad to become a member of Penn’s Population Aging Research Center. Looking forward to interacting more with colleagues there and learning new developments in aging research.
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    Population Aging Research Center at Penn
    @PennPARC
    Jul 31, 2024
    Welcome to @PennPARC, new Research Associate Dr. Xi Song (@xisong), Associate Professor of @SociologyatPenn aging.upenn.edu/bio/xi-song Read here work: scholar.google.com/citations?user… 📣 Listen to her discuss intergenerational mobility "The Inequality Podcast" on apple.co/3yCptcG
    Xi Song (宋曦) is an Associate Professor of Sociology (2019—present) and a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Demography at University of Pennsylvania. She is an external affiliate of the Population Research Center and the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the University of Chicago and a faculty affiliate of the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health, and Data Science in Germany. She is currently on leave as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2023–2024).

Her research interests include social mobility, occupations and work, population studies, and quantitative methodology. Her current topics of investigation include economic mobility through lifecycle and intergenerational processes, the evolution of occupational structure, new occupational ranking and autocoding methods, kinship network, and the link between intra- and intergenerational mobility.
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Feb 20, 2024
    Our forthcoming review article on Asian Americans’ educational and labor market (dis)advantages. Link:
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    Jennifer Lee 🦁
    @JLeeSoc
    Feb 18, 2024
    1/ Studies of #bias against #AsianAmericans have focused on the sources & consequences. We rewrite the Q to consider how Asian Americans ANTICIPATE & RESPOND to bias ⬇️⬇️ How do #AsianAmericans seek to preempt bias by STRATEGICALLY ADAPTING to mitigate it? @AnnualReviews 2024
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    Presumed Competent: The Strategic Adaptation of Asian Americans in Education and the Labor Market
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jul 12, 2024
    A preview of the International Conference for Computational Social Sciences to be held at Penn next week July 17-20. We received 708 submissions 🔥🔥🔥See ➡️ic2s2-philadelphia-2024.streamlit.app #IC2S2 #SICSS @dhopkins1776 @duncanjwatts @SICSS_Penn @IC2S2 @SociologyatPenn @Penn @PennDDDI
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jul 17, 2024
    International Conference on Computational Social Sciences at Penn Day 0 Tutorial Day. We have more than 300 participants who signed up for today’s events. Photo: @profjamesevans on deep learning @duncanjwatts @dhopkins1776 @IC2S2 #computational #socialscience
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jul 19, 2024
    It’s great to see that next year’s #ic2s2 will be hosted by sociologist @PeterHedstrom1 and his team in Sweden! Looking forward to seeing mingling between analytical sociologists and computational social scientists @duncanjwatts @IAS_LiU @benfjarvis
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jun 23, 2022
    Check out our new paper on kinship and socioeconomic inequality! @HalCaswell
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    Demography Journal
    @ReadDemography
    Jun 23, 2022
    A new study by @xisong & @HalCaswell considers unemployment & exposure to it from a kinship perspective, allowing them to “estimate concentrated unemployment in kinship groups & show the reverberating effects of job loss through extended family networks.” ow.ly/oEMW50JFEhK
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jul 21, 2024
    Are you interested in knowing the chance that Harris will be sworn in as president before November 2024 from a demographer’s view? Check out the homework exercise from my class in 2020 👇#BidenHarris2024
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Jul 12, 2024
    It’s great to see professors and graduate students from so any different fields working on important questions at the intersection of computational science and social science. In particular, we have more than 10 participants from sociology this year!
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    SICSS-Penn
    @SICSS_Penn
    Jul 11, 2024
    SICSS-Penn year THREE 🎉 So happy to meet y’all in Philly and enjoy a productive week! 🆒😎
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    Xi Song
    @xisong
    Apr 9, 2022
    A picture of me during my presentation #PAA2022 when ⁦@FabianPfeffer⁩ told me 2 minutes left
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