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Chen, Wan-Chi

Professor
Sociology of Education, Marriage and Family, Gender and Work, Adolescent Wellbeing, Subjective Wellbeing
+886-2-8674-1111 ext. 67063 wchen@gm.ntpu.edu.tw
Experience

Ph.D. Department of Sociology. University of Chicago, 2005

National Taipei University, Department of Sociology Professor (2016～present)
National Academy for Educational Research, Research Center for Education Systems and Policy Research Research Fellow(2023～present)
National Academy for Educational Research, Research Center for Education Systems and Policy Research Director (2019~2023)
National Taipei University, Department of Sociology Department Chair (2017~2019)
National Taipei University, College of Social Sciences Director of Research Center for Taiwan Development (2016~2017)
Harvard University, Department of Sociology Visiting Scholar (2012~2013)
National Taipei University, Department of Sociology, Associate Professor (2012~2016)
National Taipei University, Department of Sociology, Assistant Professor (2007~2012)
National Taiwan University, Department of Sociology, Postdoctoral Fellow (2005~2006)

Personal Web

English CV in PDF ; 中文學術履歷網頁 ; 中文學術履歷PDF檔

Teaching

Undergraduate Courses

Sociology

Sociology of Education

Marriage and Family

Sociology of Work


Graduate Courses

Statistics for Social Science

Social Research Methods

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journals

  • Chen, Wan-Chi, and Yi-fu Chen (forthcoming) Rural Education, Teach for Taiwan and Teacher Effectiveness. Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly. (in Chinese)
  • Ma, Josef Kuo-Hsun, Wan-Chi Chen, and En-Tsai Liao (2022) Undergraduate Students’ Financial Condition, Mental Health, Remote Class Participation, and Perceived School Support During COVID School Closures. Survey Research—Method and Application 49: 187-264. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-Chi, Shu-Chen Wang, and Che-Wei Hsu (2022) Fairness of Nontraditional Paths to Higher Education: An Analysis of Administrative Data." Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 71: 57-90. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Wang, Shu-Chen, and Wan-Chi Chen (2022) Who Are the Exam-Retakers? Investigating Retaker’s Trend, Demographic Characteristics and Field Preferences using Administrative Data. Bulletin of Educational Research 68(1): 33-74. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Yu, Ruoh-Rong, and Wan-Chi Chen (2020) Married Women's Relative Income and Family Satisfaction. Journal of Population Studies 60: 1-41.  (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Heng-hao Chang (2017) Authors' Reply: Friends, Cyber Acquaintances, Facebook and the Sunflower Movement. Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy 29(2): 329-333. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Cheng, Hao-chun, and Wan-chi Chen (2017) Rather Be a Big Fish in a Little Pond? The Impact of Class Ranking on Academic Performance. Bulletin of Educational Research 63(1): 1-30. (in Chinese)(Full Text
  • Chen, Wan-chi, Heng-hao Chang, and Su-jen Huang (2016) The Coming of Networked Social Movement? Social Ties and Social Media in the Sunflower Movement. Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy 28(4): 467-501. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2016) Book Review: World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students. Bulletin of Educational Research 62(1): 117-127. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2016) The Role of Grandparents in Single-Parent Families in Taiwan. Marriage & Family Review 52: 41-63.(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2015) Academic Performance of Only Children Who Monopolize Parental Resources: The Case of Taiwan. Sociological Perspective 58(4): 609-626.(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Su-jen Huang (2015) The Outcry Outside the Legislature: A Portrait of Sunflower Movement Sit-In Demonstrators. Taiwanese Sociology 30: 141-179. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2014) For the Sake of Child? Re-evaluating the Consequence of Parental Divorce. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 54: 31-73. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2013) Causes and Consequences of High School Curriculum-Track Selection: Gender, Belief, Teacher’s Gender, and Cognitive Development. Taiwanese Sociology 25: 89-123. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2012) The Changing Pattern of Educational Differentials in Divorce in the Context of Gender Egalitarianization: The Case of Taiwan. Population Research and Policy Review 31(6): 831-853.(Full Text)
  • Tsai, Ming-Chang, Heng-Hao Chang and Wan-chi Chen. (2012) Globally Happy: Individual Globalization, Expanded Capacities, and Subjective Wellbeing. Social Indicators Research 108: 509-524.(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2012) How Education Enhances Happiness: Comparison of Mediating Factors in Four East Asian Countries. Social Indicators Research 106(1): 117-131.(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Ya-lin Syu (2011) Accounting for Sex Segregation in Taiwan’s Higher Education: Difference between Vocational and Academic Sector. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 48: 151-199. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Chung-lun Hsu (2011) Warm Support vs. Iron Discipline? The Relation between Parenting and Adolescent Mental Health. Bulletin of Educational Research 57(2): 121-154. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Hui-jing Wu (2011) Women's Employment and Marital Dissolution. Journal of Population Studies 42: 81-114. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, Ming-jen Lin, and Jin-tan Liu (2010) Maternal Age as a Crucial Factor between Low Birth Weight and Crime: Evidence from Taiwan's National Data - A Research Note. Social Science Research 39: 1047-1058.(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Yu-wen Wen (2010) Does Language Matter? Ethnicity, Linguistic Capital, and Occupational Attainment in Taiwan. Taiwanese Journal of Sociology 44: 1-54. (in Chinese)(Full Text)
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2005) Ethnicity, Gender and Class: Ethnic Difference in Taiwan's Educational Attainment Revisited. Taiwanese Sociology 10: 1-40. (in Chinese)(Full Text)


Book Chapters

  • Chen, Wan-Chi (2021) Education, Pp. 187-210 in Sociology: Taiwanese Perspectives 5th Edition, edited by Chih-Jou Jay Chen and Kuo-Ming Lin. Kaohsiung: Chuliu. (in Chinese)
  • Tsai, Ming-Chang, and Wan-chi Chen (2017) The Family-Work Nexus and Wellbeing in Asia: An Introduction. Pp. 3-17 in Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia, edited by Ming-Chang Tsai and Wan-chi Chen. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Yu-Chun Hsieh (2017) Women's Greater Independence from Family? Change and Stability in the Social Determinants of Wives' Labor Force Exit in Taiwan. Pp. 129-148 in Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia, edited by Ming-Chang Tsai and Wan-chi Chen. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2014) "Sex Differences in Quality of Life." Pp. 5858-5860 in Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, edited by Alex C. Michalos. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2012) Urban Educational Advantage in Taiwan: The Perspective of Collective Socialization. Pp. 143-184 in Social Change in Taiwan, 1985-2005: Social Stratification and Labor Market, edited by Yang-Chih Fu and Yeu-sheng Hsieh. Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica. (in Chinese)(Full Text)


Books

  • Tsai, Ming-Chang, and Wan-chi Chen (eds.) 2017 Family, Work and Wellbeing in Asia. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.


Dissertation

  • Chen, Wan-chi (2005) Does Social Origin Weigh More When a Society Gets Richer? Over-time Analysis of Social Origin's Influence on Educational Attainment in Postwar Taiwan. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
Funded Research

  • 2023/8-2025/7

Identity and wellbeing of non-binary and transgender youth in Taiwan ((Funded by National Science and Technology Council, NSTC 112-2629-H-305-001-MY2) (Total costs: NT$1,409,800), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2021/9-2022/12

Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Taiwanese Society (Funded by National Science and Technology Council, Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, MOST-110-2420-H-002-003-MY3-P11003), Role: Co-Principal Investigator.

  • 2022/1 - 2022/12

Taiwan Social Change Survey, Year 1~3 of Round 8 (Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, MOST109-2740-H001-001-SS3) (Total costs: NT$10,000,000), Role: Co-Principal Investigator.

  • 2021/8 - 2023/7

Social Reproduction or Social Mobility? Investigating the Role of Higher Education in Enhancing Equality Using Administrative Data (Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, MOST110-2410-H305-049-MY2) (Total costs: NT$1,554,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2017/8 - 2018-7

Short Panel Survey in Rural Primary Schools (Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, MOST 106-2410-H-305-052-) (Total costs: NT$725,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2015/8 - 2017-7

Middle School Teachers in Taiwan: Autonomy, Commitment, Fatigue, Workload and Teaching Style (Funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, MOST 104-2410-H-305-047-MY2) (Total costs: NT$1,176,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2013/8 - 2015-7

From Gender Hierarchy to Egalitarianism: Marriage, Labor Participation and Well-being of Taiwanese Women (Funded by National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC 102-2628-H-305-004-MY2) (Total costs: NT$1788,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2011/8 - 2013-7

The Impact of Family on Women's Labor Market Outcomes and its Overtime Changes (Funded by National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC 100-2410-H-305-051- MY2) (Total costs: NT$686,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2010/9 - 2011/9

A Study about the Influences and Illumination of Taiwan's Social Trends on K-12 Curriculum (Funded by National Academy for Educational Research, Taiwan, a sub-project of NAER-99-12-A-1-07-00-3-01) (Total costs: NT$447,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2009/8 - 2011/7

Exploring Risk Factors of Marital Dissolution (Funded by National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC 98-2410-H-305-038-MY2) (Total costs: NT$1,488,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2008/8 - 2009/7

Accounting for Urban Advantage in Educational Opportunity (Funded by National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC 97-2410-H-305-030) (Total costs: NT$407,000), Role: Principal Investigator.

  • 2007/10 - 2008/7

Are Only Children Who Monopolize Family Resources More Advantaged in Intellectual Development? (Funded by National Science Council, Taiwan, NSC 96-2412-H-305-002)(Total costs: NT$330,000) Role: Principal Investigator.


Conference Presentations and Invited Lectures
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2016) "For the Sake of the Children? Re-evaluating the Consequences of Parental Divorce in Taiwan." Invited lecture, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo, October 18, 2016（日本國立社會保障‧人口問題研究所）
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Yu-Chun Hsieh (2016) “More Independent from Family? Change and Stability in the Social Determinants of Women’s Labor Force Exit.” Paper presented at the International Seminar on Family, Life Course and Wellbeing in Asia and Beyond, May 24-25, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Su-jen Huang (2014) “The Outcry Outside the Legislature: A Portrait of Sunflower Movement Sit-In Demonstrators.” Paper presented at the Taiwanese Sociological Association Annual Meeting, December 6, 2014, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-chu. (in Chinese)
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Ming-chang Tsai (2014) “The Venus-Mars Difference and Its Discontents: The Contextual Effects of Gender-Ideology Gender Gaps on Life Satisfaction.” Paper presented at the meeting of ISA World Congress of Sociology (RC55), July 14, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2014) “The Role of Grandparents in Single-Parent Households in Taiwan.” Paper presented at the International Conference on “Growing Up in One-Parent Family in Asia”, July 2, NUS, Asia Research Institute.
  • Chen, Wan-chi, Simon Cheng and Ming-jen Lin (2013) “If Nobody Cares, I Don’t Care: Parenting, Family Adversities and the New Gender Gap in Education.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 10, New York.
  • Chen, Wan-chi. (2010) “The Changing Pattern of Educational Differentials in Divorce: The Case of Taiwan”. Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Aug 2010.
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Kuei-Hsiu Lin (2009) “How Education Matters for Happiness? Commonalities across Three East Asian Countries.” Paper presented at the 14th TSCS Conference and 2009 EASS Syposium, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica.
  • Chen, Wan-chi (2009) “When Resource Dilution Theory Fails: The Intellectual Development of the Only Child Who Monopolizes Parental Resources.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Aug 2009.
  • Chen, Wan-chi, and Ming-jen Lin (2006) “Maternal Age as a Biosocial Link between Low Weight and Crime: Evidence from Taiwan's National Data.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Aug 2006.
Data Collection and Deposit Projects
  • Principle Investigator, Sunflower Movement Sit-In Demonstrators Survey (D00118). [Data file]. Available from Survey Research Data Archive, Academia Sinica. doi:10.6141/TW-SRDA-D00118-1
  • Investigator, Taiwan Social Change Survey (part of the East Asian Social Survey Program), Module on Social Capital, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2011 – 2012.
  • Investigator, Taiwan Social Change Survey (part of the International Social Survey Program), Module on Social Inequality, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2008 – 2010.


Professional Service
  • Taiwanese Sociological Association, President, 2022-2023
  • Taiwanese Sociological Association, Executive Director, 2018-2020
  • Editorial Board, Taiwanese Journal of Sociology (台灣社會學刊), 2016-2018
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Population Studies (人口學刊), 2015-2017
  • Editorial Board, Survey Research — Method and Application (調查研究──方法與應用), 2015-2017
  • Editorial Board, Bulletin of Educational Research (教育研究集刊), 2014-2016
  • Editorial Board, Taiwan Journal of Sociology of Education (台灣教育社會學研究) (official publication of Taiwan Association for Sociology of Education), 2010-2012
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Taiwan Studies (研究台灣), 2007-2009
  • Manuscript Referee for:
[domestic journals] Taiwanese Sociology, Taiwanese Journal of Sociology, Journal of Taiwan Studies, Bulletin of Educational Research, Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Journal of Population Studies, Taiwan Economic Review, Academia Economic Papers, Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly, Taiwan Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Electoral Studies, Journal of Public Administration, The Archive of Guidance & Counseling
[international journals] Social Forces, Sociology of Education, Journal of Marriage and Family, Demography, Research in the Sociology of Education, Social Indicators Research, Sociological Perspectives, International Sociology, Demographic Research, World Development, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Social Sciences Journal, Asian Women, Chinese Journal of Communication, Journal of Urban Affairs





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