Yu-Ling Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3979213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yu-Ling Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yu-Ling |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2072-3225 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Are They Exchanging? Exploring the Sources of Tourist Social Exchange from the Perspective of Place Attachment
Rethinking welfare-to-work programmes in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from CalWorks in the United States
Social policy scholars have raised concerns about the effectiveness and responsiveness of welfare-to-work (WTW) programmes in addressing poverty and economic hardship in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This article investigates how California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing how its rules and practices have evolved, the values or principles underpi…
Using explainable artificial intelligence to envision the future of work and the workforce – from prediction to explanation
Did Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions Increase Benefit Receipt among Economically Disadvantaged Workers
This study investigates the effects of state expansions of unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility criteria on UI recipiency among unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-differences approach and data from the Current Population Survey (2003–20), we find evidence largely consistent with the expected overall and differential effects of the expansions. An alternative base period (ABP) increases UI take-up by approximately 5 percentage points. Som…
Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the US ecosocial safety net
As climate change progresses, natural hazards are projected to continue to increase in frequency and intensity, posing a new form of social risk, implicating both the welfare and environmental state and raising the salience of ecosocial policy as a mechanism to attend to the distributional effects of climate change mitigation and adaptation. This study posits a novel conceptual framework for ecosocial policy and offers the US ecosocial safety net…
Spatially Small-scale Approach-avoidance Behaviors Allow Learning-free Machine Inference of Object Preferences in Human Minds
Post-Discharge Depression Status for Survivors of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Ecmo): Comparison of Veno-Venous Ecmo and Veno-Arterial Ecmo
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is one of the common invasive treatments for the care of critically ill patients with heart failure, respiratory failure, or both. There are two modes of ECMO, namely, veno-venous (VV) and veno-arterial (VA), which have different indications, survival rates, and incidences of complications. This study's aim was to examine whether depression status differed between patients who had received VV-ECMO or VA-…
Asynchronously Embedding Psychological Test Questions into Human–Robot Conversations for User Profiling
Psychological variables of a person (e.g., cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional states, and preferences) are valuable information that can be utilized by social robots to offer personalized human–robot interaction. These variables are often latent and inferred indirectly from a third-person perspective based on an individual’s behavioral manifestations (e.g., facial emotion expressions), and hence the true values of inferred psychol…
Major Means-Tested and Income Support Programs for the Working Class, 2009–2019
This article examines policy changes to and trends in five cash or near-cash income support programs for low-income workers and their families from 2009 to 2019. Our analyses show that the safety net expanded during the recession and then contracted via the tightening of eligibility rules and expiration of most temporary expansions for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), unemployment insurance (UI), and Temporary Assistance to N…
Does State Unemployment Insurance Modernization Explain the Trajectories of Economic Security Among Working Households? Longitudinal Evidence from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation
Work-Hour Trajectories and Associated Socioeconomic Characteristics among Single-Mother Families
Although social work research has paid substantial attention to employment patterns among low-income single mothers after welfare reform, little is known about their work-hour trajectories over time. This study uses group-based trajectory modeling to analyze the work-hour trajectories among low-income single mothers in the United States (N = 870). Only approximately two-fifths (41.9 percent) of participants in the sample had stable employment. Ab…
Second-Order Devolution Revolution and the Hidden Structural Discrimination? Examining County Welfare-to-Work Service Systems in California
Drawing from Critical Race Theory (CRT), and a structural intersectionality framework, we examine intersecting structural inequalities embedded in county welfare-to-work (WTW) service delivery in California. Using a mixed-method analytic approach, our results reveal that second-order-devolution revolution (SODR) shapes intersecting gender, racial, class, and spatial inequalities, and reproduces white supremacy. We find that counties with multiple…
Equity versus equality: Discourses and practices within decentralized welfare‐to‐work programs in California
The U.S. welfare reform of 1996 brought about highly decentralized Welfare‐to‐Work (WTW) programs, granting discretion to states and local governments to implement policies. Previous research has emphasized racial disparities in WTW sanction rates, by focusing on state/county characteristics or frontline‐workers' biases. There is a dearth of research focusing on different understandings of equity or equality and corresponding practices embedded w…
The U.S. Safety Net since the Great Recession: Trends and Reforms, 2007–2017
The negative impacts of the Great Recession (GR) (2007 to 2009) on the lives of families with low incomes warrant social work concerns about how well antipoverty policy responded to meet economic needs over this period and since. Given America's long-standing tension between welfare state adequacy and market-oriented policies, how well did the safety net respond to the economic downturn? Did GR-era changes reverse or accelerate trends in public a…
Unequal Social Protection under the Federalist System: Three Unemployment Insurance Approaches in the United States, 2007-2015
Despite the increased attention paid to federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) schemes after the Great Recession (2007-2009), research examining the policy characteristics and the underlying logic shaping the social protection provided by a federal-state UI system is limited. Integrating the perspectives of policy design theory, comparative welfare politics, and fiscal welfare, this paper examines the unequal social protection under the Americ…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
Social Construction, Knowledge Utilization, and the Politics of Poverty: A Case Study of Washington State’s General Assistance Reform
This paper addresses a gap in welfare reform literature by investigating the social constructions of poor people in state policymaking within the context of diminishing General Assistance (GA) after the Great Recession. Using Social Construction and Policy Design Theoryand thematic content analysis of Washington State’s legislative archives, I found that the negative constructions of GA recipients as deviants with undesired psychological and beha…
Re-Examining the U.S. Social Safety Net for Working-Age Families: Lessons From the Great Recession and Its Aftermath
The Great Recession’s lingering aftermath keeps challenging the federal and state governments’ capacity to weave a responsive, equitable, and adequate social safety net. Through the lens of Schneider and Ingram’s Policy Design Theory, this article critically reviews existing evidence on policy responses of five cash or near-cash programs to the Great Recession. I argue that the bifurcated, decentralized structure of the U.S. social welfare system…
Quality-of-life measures as predictors of post-esophagectomy survival of patients with esophageal cancer
Moving Beyond Dichotomies: How the Intersection of Race, Class and Place Impacts High School Graduation Rates for African American Students
Over thirty years ago, William Julius Wilson declared that class trumped race as the more significant determinant of social mobility and economic opportunity. Despite the acclaim and scrutiny for Wilson's work, the United States has grown increasingly divided by intersecting factors of race, class and other demographic factors such as place (Massey, 2007). These divisions are especially evident in the public education system. We analyze how race,…
Second-Order Devolution Revolution and the Hidden Structural Discrimination? Examining County Welfare-to-Work Service Systems in California
Drawing from Critical Race Theory (CRT), and a structural intersectionality framework, we examine intersecting structural inequalities embedded in county welfare-to-work (WTW) service delivery in California. Using a mixed-method analytic approach, our results reveal that second-order-devolution revolution (SODR) shapes intersecting gender, racial, class, and spatial inequalities, and reproduces white supremacy. We find that counties with multiple…
Unequal Social Protection under the Federalist System: Three Unemployment Insurance Approaches in the United States, 2007-2015
Despite the increased attention paid to federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) schemes after the Great Recession (2007-2009), research examining the policy characteristics and the underlying logic shaping the social protection provided by a federal-state UI system is limited. Integrating the perspectives of policy design theory, comparative welfare politics, and fiscal welfare, this paper examines the unequal social protection under the Americ…
Moving Beyond Dichotomies: How the Intersection of Race, Class and Place Impacts High School Graduation Rates for African American Students
Over thirty years ago, William Julius Wilson declared that class trumped race as the more significant determinant of social mobility and economic opportunity. Despite the acclaim and scrutiny for Wilson's work, the United States has grown increasingly divided by intersecting factors of race, class and other demographic factors such as place (Massey, 2007). These divisions are especially evident in the public education system. We analyze how race,…
Major Means-Tested and Income Support Programs for the Working Class, 2009–2019
This article examines policy changes to and trends in five cash or near-cash income support programs for low-income workers and their families from 2009 to 2019. Our analyses show that the safety net expanded during the recession and then contracted via the tightening of eligibility rules and expiration of most temporary expansions for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), unemployment insurance (UI), and Temporary Assistance to N…
The U.S. Safety Net since the Great Recession: Trends and Reforms, 2007–2017
The negative impacts of the Great Recession (GR) (2007 to 2009) on the lives of families with low incomes warrant social work concerns about how well antipoverty policy responded to meet economic needs over this period and since. Given America's long-standing tension between welfare state adequacy and market-oriented policies, how well did the safety net respond to the economic downturn? Did GR-era changes reverse or accelerate trends in public a…
Moving Beyond Dichotomies: How the Intersection of Race, Class and Place Impacts High School Graduation Rates for African American Students
Over thirty years ago, William Julius Wilson declared that class trumped race as the more significant determinant of social mobility and economic opportunity. Despite the acclaim and scrutiny for Wilson's work, the United States has grown increasingly divided by intersecting factors of race, class and other demographic factors such as place (Massey, 2007). These divisions are especially evident in the public education system. We analyze how race,…
Re-Examining the U.S. Social Safety Net for Working-Age Families: Lessons From the Great Recession and Its Aftermath
The Great Recession’s lingering aftermath keeps challenging the federal and state governments’ capacity to weave a responsive, equitable, and adequate social safety net. Through the lens of Schneider and Ingram’s Policy Design Theory, this article critically reviews existing evidence on policy responses of five cash or near-cash programs to the Great Recession. I argue that the bifurcated, decentralized structure of the U.S. social welfare system…
Quality-of-life measures as predictors of post-esophagectomy survival of patients with esophageal cancer
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
Social Construction, Knowledge Utilization, and the Politics of Poverty: A Case Study of Washington State’s General Assistance Reform
This paper addresses a gap in welfare reform literature by investigating the social constructions of poor people in state policymaking within the context of diminishing General Assistance (GA) after the Great Recession. Using Social Construction and Policy Design Theoryand thematic content analysis of Washington State’s legislative archives, I found that the negative constructions of GA recipients as deviants with undesired psychological and beha…
Does State Unemployment Insurance Modernization Explain the Trajectories of Economic Security Among Working Households? Longitudinal Evidence from the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation
Work-Hour Trajectories and Associated Socioeconomic Characteristics among Single-Mother Families
Although social work research has paid substantial attention to employment patterns among low-income single mothers after welfare reform, little is known about their work-hour trajectories over time. This study uses group-based trajectory modeling to analyze the work-hour trajectories among low-income single mothers in the United States (N = 870). Only approximately two-fifths (41.9 percent) of participants in the sample had stable employment. Ab…
Second-Order Devolution Revolution and the Hidden Structural Discrimination? Examining County Welfare-to-Work Service Systems in California
Drawing from Critical Race Theory (CRT), and a structural intersectionality framework, we examine intersecting structural inequalities embedded in county welfare-to-work (WTW) service delivery in California. Using a mixed-method analytic approach, our results reveal that second-order-devolution revolution (SODR) shapes intersecting gender, racial, class, and spatial inequalities, and reproduces white supremacy. We find that counties with multiple…
Equity versus equality: Discourses and practices within decentralized welfare‐to‐work programs in California
The U.S. welfare reform of 1996 brought about highly decentralized Welfare‐to‐Work (WTW) programs, granting discretion to states and local governments to implement policies. Previous research has emphasized racial disparities in WTW sanction rates, by focusing on state/county characteristics or frontline‐workers' biases. There is a dearth of research focusing on different understandings of equity or equality and corresponding practices embedded w…
The U.S. Safety Net since the Great Recession: Trends and Reforms, 2007–2017
The negative impacts of the Great Recession (GR) (2007 to 2009) on the lives of families with low incomes warrant social work concerns about how well antipoverty policy responded to meet economic needs over this period and since. Given America's long-standing tension between welfare state adequacy and market-oriented policies, how well did the safety net respond to the economic downturn? Did GR-era changes reverse or accelerate trends in public a…
Unequal Social Protection under the Federalist System: Three Unemployment Insurance Approaches in the United States, 2007-2015
Despite the increased attention paid to federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) schemes after the Great Recession (2007-2009), research examining the policy characteristics and the underlying logic shaping the social protection provided by a federal-state UI system is limited. Integrating the perspectives of policy design theory, comparative welfare politics, and fiscal welfare, this paper examines the unequal social protection under the Americ…
Asynchronously Embedding Psychological Test Questions into Human–Robot Conversations for User Profiling
Psychological variables of a person (e.g., cognitive abilities, personality traits, emotional states, and preferences) are valuable information that can be utilized by social robots to offer personalized human–robot interaction. These variables are often latent and inferred indirectly from a third-person perspective based on an individual’s behavioral manifestations (e.g., facial emotion expressions), and hence the true values of inferred psychol…
Major Means-Tested and Income Support Programs for the Working Class, 2009–2019
This article examines policy changes to and trends in five cash or near-cash income support programs for low-income workers and their families from 2009 to 2019. Our analyses show that the safety net expanded during the recession and then contracted via the tightening of eligibility rules and expiration of most temporary expansions for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), unemployment insurance (UI), and Temporary Assistance to N…
Post-Discharge Depression Status for Survivors of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (Ecmo): Comparison of Veno-Venous Ecmo and Veno-Arterial Ecmo
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is one of the common invasive treatments for the care of critically ill patients with heart failure, respiratory failure, or both. There are two modes of ECMO, namely, veno-venous (VV) and veno-arterial (VA), which have different indications, survival rates, and incidences of complications. This study's aim was to examine whether depression status differed between patients who had received VV-ECMO or VA-…
Spatially Small-scale Approach-avoidance Behaviors Allow Learning-free Machine Inference of Object Preferences in Human Minds
Did Unemployment Insurance Modernization Provisions Increase Benefit Receipt among Economically Disadvantaged Workers
This study investigates the effects of state expansions of unemployment insurance (UI) eligibility criteria on UI recipiency among unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-differences approach and data from the Current Population Survey (2003–20), we find evidence largely consistent with the expected overall and differential effects of the expansions. An alternative base period (ABP) increases UI take-up by approximately 5 percentage points. Som…
Ecosocial policy and the social risks of climate change: Foundations of the US ecosocial safety net
As climate change progresses, natural hazards are projected to continue to increase in frequency and intensity, posing a new form of social risk, implicating both the welfare and environmental state and raising the salience of ecosocial policy as a mechanism to attend to the distributional effects of climate change mitigation and adaptation. This study posits a novel conceptual framework for ecosocial policy and offers the US ecosocial safety net…
What Are They Exchanging? Exploring the Sources of Tourist Social Exchange from the Perspective of Place Attachment
Rethinking welfare-to-work programmes in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from CalWorks in the United States
Social policy scholars have raised concerns about the effectiveness and responsiveness of welfare-to-work (WTW) programmes in addressing poverty and economic hardship in the wake of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This article investigates how California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by analysing how its rules and practices have evolved, the values or principles underpi…
Using explainable artificial intelligence to envision the future of work and the workforce – from prediction to explanation
Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Welfare (9 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (8 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Recession (6 works)