Shige Song is Professor and Chair of Sociology at  Queens College of The City University of New York, Professor of CUNY Graduate Center’s Certificate Program in Demography, and Faculty Associate of CUNY Institute of Demographic Research (CIDR).

Dr. Song’s research focuses on the integration of the social and biomedical approaches to health and well-being. He has studied the effect of social conditions and cultural preferences on infant mortality and physical growth of children and the long-term “fetal origins” effect of prenatal exposure to acute malnutrition on mortality, reproductive health, and mental health outcomes. Dr. Song has a strong interest in the evolutionary explanations of human behaviors and is exploring novel methodologies such as agent-based model and game theoretical model to disentangle the complex underlying generative processes. His most recent work makes use of various types of “big data” to understand human incentive and its macro consequences.

NEW PAPERS

■ 2019 Song, Shige, and Weidong Wang. “Testing the Only-Child Advantage in Cognitive Development in the Context of China’s One-Child Policy.” Population Research and Policy Review 38(6):841–867 (PDF).

■ 2019 Babiarz, Kimberly, Paul Ma, Shige Song, and Grant Miller. “Population Sex Imbalance in China before the One-Child Policy.” Demographic Research 40(13):319-358 (PDF).

■ 2018 Song, Shige. “Spending Patterns of Chinese Parents on Children’s Backpacks Support the Trivers-Willard Hypothesis: Results Based on Transaction Data from China’s Largest Online Retailer.” Evolution & Human Behavior 39(3):336-342. (PDF)