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Emily Hannum

Hannum

Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences

Professor of Sociology & Education

hannumem@soc.upenn.edu215-898-9633

247 McNeil

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Michigan, 1998

Emily Hannum is a professor of sociology and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests are poverty and child welfare, gender and ethnic stratification, and sociology of education. Current projects focus on childhood poverty in China, the impact of large-scale school consolidations on educational attainment in China, and family separation and children’s education in China and in comparative perspective.  Data collection projects include a longitudinal study of rural poverty and upward mobility in northwest China and a study of environment and health at the beginning of life in southeast China.   Recent publications include “Education in East Asian Societies: Postwar Expansion and the Evolution of Inequality” (2019, Annual Review of Sociology, with Hiroshi Ishida, Hyunjoon Park, and Tony Tam) and “Differences at the Extremes? Gender, National Contexts, and Math Performance in Latin America.” (2019, American Educational Research Journal, with Ran Liu and Andrea Alvarado-Urbina). 

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  • Floods, Community Infrastructure, and Children's Heterogeneous Learning Losses in Rural India Floods, Community Infrastructure, and Children's Heterogeneous Learning Losses in Rural India
  • Same Environment, Stratified Impacts? Air Pollution, Extreme Temperatures, and Birth Weight in Southeast China Same Environment, Stratified Impacts? Air Pollution, Extreme Temperatures, and Birth Weight in Southeast China
  • Fewer, Better Pathways For All? Intersectional Impacts of Rural School Consolidation in China’s Minority Regions Fewer, Better Pathways For All? Intersectional Impacts of Rural School Consolidation in China’s Minority Regions
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January 27, 2025

Nazar Khalid's Study Examines the Impact of Flooding on Learning Outcomes for Marginalized Children in India, OMNIA

November 21, 2024

Emily Hannum & Jere Behrman Co-led Initiative Focused on Climate Change and Childhood Inequality, OMNIA

November 19, 2024

GGD Student Nazar Khalid is interviewed on the findings of "Floods and Children's Education in Rural India.", RSF Journal

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  • Food Insecurity, Nutritional Deprivation, and Child Functioning in Rural China

  • Disseminating and Extending the Gansu Survey of Children and Families

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The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) was founded in 1962 and stands as an international leader in research and training on the dynamic structure, organization, and health and well-being of human populations. The services that PSC provides have been funded by infrastructure grants awarded by the Population Dynamics Branch at Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) since 1978. The center and its associates are also supported by research grants and contracts awarded by federal agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation and by private foundations. Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences is the administrative home of the PSC and provides generous dedicated support to the center.

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