Emma Zang
@dremmazang.bsky.social
Associate Professor @YaleSoc @ysphbiostat @JacksonYale | Advocate for evidence-based family and health policies | Data science enthusiast
The Hoover Institution was a beautiful setting, and the organizing team was fantastic. I’m already planning to join again next year. Hope to see more demographers and sociologists there!
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Hoover Institution was a beautiful setting, and the organizing team was fantastic. I’m already planning to join again next year. Hope to see more demographers and sociologists there!
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<p><b><span>From Extraction to Inference: Comparing Rule-Based, Machine Learning, and LLM Approaches for Classifying Social Outcomes in Legal Text</span></b></p>
<p><span>Legal texts encode key social outcomes, but their unstructured format, domain-specific language, and culturally embedded cues make them difficult to an
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October 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Join us in advancing cutting-edge, data-driven research on inequality and population health! Please spread the word!
October 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Join us in advancing cutting-edge, data-driven research on inequality and population health! Please spread the word!
The official posting will appear soon on our lab website, but interested candidates are encouraged to reach out now with a CV and a writing sample (with an associated sample code). You can reach me at [email protected]. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until we find the right fit.
October 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
The official posting will appear soon on our lab website, but interested candidates are encouraged to reach out now with a CV and a writing sample (with an associated sample code). You can reach me at [email protected]. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until we find the right fit.
This would likely be a side project, but I think it could be extremely interesting (and important). If this sparks your curiosity too, please reach out or drop me a message—I’d love to chat!
October 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This would likely be a side project, but I think it could be extremely interesting (and important). If this sparks your curiosity too, please reach out or drop me a message—I’d love to chat!
I’d love to start talking with families whose children or parents have been in facilities recently acquired by private equity companies. I’m also looking to connect with researchers—especially those with qualitative expertise—who might be interested in exploring this with me.
October 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’d love to start talking with families whose children or parents have been in facilities recently acquired by private equity companies. I’m also looking to connect with researchers—especially those with qualitative expertise—who might be interested in exploring this with me.
As both a scholar who studies caregiving and a parent, I find this trend fascinating—and a bit concerning. There’s already a growing body of research on private equity in healthcare, but much less on its impact on the everyday experiences of families.
October 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
As both a scholar who studies caregiving and a parent, I find this trend fascinating—and a bit concerning. There’s already a growing body of research on private equity in healthcare, but much less on its impact on the everyday experiences of families.
As someone who studies family, law, and inequality, I found these stories both personal and urgent—they remind us how policies ripple through everyday lives and futures.
I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and support student journalism: thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/09/disr...
I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and support student journalism: thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/09/disr...
Disrupted Customs | The New Journal
Chinese international students are the foremost targets of Trump’s student visa restrictions. Now, their place at Yale and their ability to speak freely seem more precarious.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
As someone who studies family, law, and inequality, I found these stories both personal and urgent—they remind us how policies ripple through everyday lives and futures.
I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and support student journalism: thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/09/disr...
I hope you’ll take a moment to read it and support student journalism: thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/09/disr...
Yes trying to be more active here haha
October 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Yes trying to be more active here haha
Thank you Cameron!!
October 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Thank you Cameron!!
A wonderful collaboration with colleagues at Yale Medicine, Yale Biostatistics, and Johns Hopkins Biostatistics.
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
A wonderful collaboration with colleagues at Yale Medicine, Yale Biostatistics, and Johns Hopkins Biostatistics.
In this paper, first-authored by my former Yale master’s student (now a Biostats PhD at UChicago), we propose a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach with poststratification as a clear alternative, with the added perk of enabling larger, combined analytic samples.
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
In this paper, first-authored by my former Yale master’s student (now a Biostats PhD at UChicago), we propose a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach with poststratification as a clear alternative, with the added perk of enabling larger, combined analytic samples.
Sampling weights in large surveys like NHATS often cause confusion when combining cohorts.
October 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sampling weights in large surveys like NHATS often cause confusion when combining cohorts.