Julia Shu‐huah Wang

Biographic Data

ID	804721
NAME	Julia Shu‐huah Wang
GIVEN NAMES	Julia Shu‐huah
FAMILY NAME	Wang
SIGNATURE	WANG J S H
AFFILIATIONS	University of Hong Kong
ORCID	0000-0002-6128-8242
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	39
TOTAL CITATIONS	164
AUTHOR COUNT	39
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	7

Alleviating poverty through healthcare: Subnational policy patterns and determinants in China
Open AccessQian Zhang, Chen Peng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Asian Public Policy2026
How do local governments vary in their approaches to social policymaking, and what determines these variations? This study analyzes the local policy patterns and determinants of the Health Poverty Alleviation Policy (健康扶贫政策), a key component of China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation Project (精准扶贫工程). By coding policy documents from 68 cities and using cluster analysis, we identify five subnational policy models based on policy domains (financing-or…
Varied rather than similar: Covid-19 social policy responses for families and workers in East Asia
Julia Shu‐huah Wang, Irene Y H Ng et al.ARTICLEJournal of Asian Public Policy2026References: 22
This study scrutinizes COVID-19 social policy responses targeting low-income families in the urban centres of East Asian societies. We investigate their generosity, coverage, and potential for poverty reduction using a model family approach. We (1) compare their welfare systems during COVID-19 and (2) assess how they changed from before (2019) to during the pandemic crisis (2020–21). The model family approach entails collecting income-packaging d…
Providing financial protection in health for low-income populations: A comparison of health financing designs in East Asia
Open AccessQian Zhang, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal for Equity…2025
Our findings further the understanding of health financing designs in East Asia. We also provide evidence for governments to enhance financial protection for low-income populations, particularly near-poor groups, to achieve more equitable health financing arrangements
Welfare Stigma, Need, and Benefit Take-Up among Low-Income Parents: The Impossible Triangle of Being a Good Parent in a Liberal Welfare City
Open AccessChen Peng, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLESocial Policy and Society2025References: 12
This study examines the interplay between welfare stigma and need in the decision to claim social welfare benefits in Hong Kong, a liberal welfare city where self-reliance and family obligations are highly valued. Our interviews with seventeen low-income parents, suggest that first, their availability and ability to work influence their self-perceived ‘deservingness’ of aid. This, in turn, affects their anticipated self-stigma and their assessmen…
Familisation and defamilisation processes of social safety net: Low-income families’ welfare participation experiences in Shanghai and Taipei
Open AccessXi Zhao, Julia Shu‐huah WangARTICLEInternational Social Work2025References: 3
This study used the conceptual lens of familisation and defamilisation to examine how different social safety net policy instruments shape low-income family processes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 28 welfare recipients in Shanghai and Taipei. The study reveals unique patterns under non-Western and low-income contexts. Means-tested cash transfers inadvertently reinforced familisation processes; defamilisation tendencies were obse…
Patterns and determinants of multiple welfare programme participation among families with children in Taiwan: Evidence from panel data (2016–2022)
Open AccessChi-Fang Wu, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2025Cited by: 1References: 1
This study investigates multiple welfare programme participation patterns in Taiwan. Taiwan is a productivist welfare society with a social safety net system that is generous in design and has a package of fertility‐boosting assistance programmes to address low birth rates. The present study examines panel data using longitudinal latent class analysis (LLCA) and multinomial logistic regression to capture and depict participation patterns across a…
How Couples' Longitudinal Work Schedule Arrangements Shape Individual Health and Sleep at Middle Adulthood
Open AccessWen‐jui Han, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLESociological Inquiry2025Cited by: 1References: 46
Using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979 and a life-course lens, we used sequence analysis to chart couples' work patterns between ages 22 and 49 (n = 5232). We then used multivariate regression analysis to examine how variations in couples' joint work arrangements may shape individual physical and mental health and sleep behaviors at age 50. We also examined associations by gender and race-ethnicity. Our sequence analysis uncove…
Motherhood or marriage penalty? A comparative perspective on employment and wage in East Asia and Western countries
Open AccessJ Y Kang, Wonjin Lee et al.ARTICLEFamily Relations2024
Utilizing Consumer-Directed Care Among Older Adults: Identifying Barriers From Behavioral Economics Perspectives
Open AccessJinbao Zhang, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLEResearch on Aging2024
Consumer-directed Care (CDC) empowers older people to flexibly arrange services and enhances their well-being. Prior studies have suggested that limited attention and hassle costs are major demand-side barriers to using CDC. However, many other psychosocial factors were unexplored. In this study, we explore associations between CDC utilization and a wider range of psychosocial factors based on behavioral economics theories. A cross-sectional tele…
Patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty and welfare interventions: Towards evidence‐based poverty‐alleviation policies in Hong Kong
Open AccessChen Peng, Qian Chang et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2024References: 17
This study examines the patterns and determinants of multidimensional poverty and related welfare interventions in Hong Kong. These patterns unveil which dimension or combinations of dimensions contribute the most to multidimensional poverty. These results are useful in informing poverty‐alleviation policies as they help to identify who should be targeted and which welfare transfer programme(s) should be enhanced . Data were drawn from the first …
Social safety net features in East Asia: A comparative analysis using the model family approach
Open AccessJulia Shu‐huah Wang, Aya Abe et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2024Cited by: 2References: 20
East Asian (EA) social welfare has been described as productivist, where social policies are subordinate to economic development. However, EA comparative studies often focus on a few select social policies and seldom examine welfare programs as a bundle. We contribute to the depiction of divergent features of EA safety nets by exploring welfare content (generosity, coverage, protective vs. productive, and work incentives) and welfare outcomes (po…
Charting Work Arrangements and Family Configuration over Our Working Lives
Open AccessWen‐jui Han, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Issues2024References: 27
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1979, we used sequence analysis to chart couples' work schedules and family configuration clusters between ages 22 and 53 ( n = 5263) to examine the association between family demands from marriage and childrearing and work arrangements between partners via a life course perspective by focusing on nonstandard work schedules, a vital indicator of precarious employment. We also explored whether such a…
Nudging for Social Change: Promises and Cautions for Social Workers to Apply Behavioural Economic Tools
Open AccessJulia Shu‐huah WangARTICLEThe British Journal of Social Work2023References: 49
Emerging knowledge from the behavioural economics field has the potential to expand social workers’ repertoire of tools to facilitate clients’ behavioural change and enhance policy design. However, social work training and practice do not traditionally incorporate this school of knowledge. As an initial step to bridge social work and behavioural economics, this article introduces behavioural economic concepts to social workers. In particular, it …
Enjoying the fruit of development? Working conditions and the earnings of low-skilled internal migrants in China across two decades (1993-2015)
Julia Shu‐huah Wang, Longjun Jing et al.ARTICLENew Community2023Cited by: 1References: 43
China’s unprecedented economic growth in recent decades can largely be attributed to millions of migrant labourers that made China the ‘world’s factory’. It is well documented, however, that migrant labourers experience discrimination in the labour market. Despite China’s phenomenal economic growth, few studies have investigated whether the working conditions of low-skilled migrants have improved. In this study, we ask: in the past two decades, h…
The effects of an old-age allowance programme on intergenerational interactions in Taiwan: Heterogeneous effects by adult children's motives for giving
Open AccessChen Peng, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Policy2023Cited by: 2References: 35
This study examines the effects of an old-age allowance programme in Taiwan, the Senior Citizens Welfare Living Allowance (SCWLA), on intergenerational financial transfers, living arrangements and contact, as well as the heterogeneity of its effects by adult children's five types of motives for giving: altruism, exchange, reciprocity, affection, and sense of responsibility. Using 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 data from the Panel Study of Family Dynam…
An Experiential Learning-Based Integrated Policy Advocacy Education Model in Hong Kong: What Works in a Non-Western and Partial Democratic Context
Julia Shu‐huah Wang, Cheryl Hiu-Kwan Chui et al.ARTICLEJournal of Social Work Education2022
This study examined the effectiveness of an experiential learning-based integrated policy advocacy education model in Hong Kong, a partially democratic and non-Western society. The model incorporated guest lectures, a mock hearing, a site visit, and an advocacy project. A mixed methods evaluation involving 144 students in quantitative surveys and 9 students in focus groups demonstrated that this model increased students’ levels of political activ…
Changing Employment and Work Schedule Patterns over the 30 Working Years—A Sequential Cluster Analysis
Open AccessWen‐jui Han, Julia Shu‐huah WangARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022
Our analysis underscores the dynamic employment patterns over our working lives, with some groups more likely than others to be engaged in nonstandard or volatile work schedules. Importantly, the groups likely to be subject to nonstandard work schedules also tend to have relatively disadvantaged social positions, thus worsening their vulnerability in securing work characterized by stability and economic security
State Tanf Time Limit and Work Sanction Stringencies and Long-Term Trajectories of Welfare Use, Labor Supply, and Income
Open AccessJulia Shu‐huah WangARTICLEJournal of Family and Economic…2021
Containment, Health, and Social Policies in the Time of Covid-19 – Determinants and Outcomes of Initial Responses across 120 Countries
Open AccessJulia Shu‐huah Wang, Chen Peng et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has triggered an unprecedented number of policy responses around the world across multiple policy domains. While governments have combined containment and health policies with social policies (CHSPs) during the initial phase of the pandemic in various ways, the current literature offers little knowledge of the patterns of these combinations and their determinants and outcomes. This paper fills this…
How effective are social safety net programs in reducing poverty risks? A comparative study of Taiwan and Southeast China
Julia Shu‐huah Wang, Yixia Cai et al.ARTICLEJournal of Asian Public Policy2021Cited by: 3References: 13
Using the harmonized Panel Study on Family Dynamics 2006, 2011, and 2013/14 data, this is the first study to examine poverty patterns and investigate the role of social safety nets in alleviating poverty over time in East Asia through a comparative lens, focusing on Taiwan and southeast (SE) China. We compared the extent to which public transfers alleviate poverty utilizing multilevel regression models. Our findings indicate that, firstly, the ex…
A Multifaceted Intervention with Savings Incentives to Reduce Multidimensional Child Poverty: Evidence from the Bridges Study (2012–2018) in Rural Uganda
Open AccessJulia Shu‐huah Wang, Bilal Malaeb et al.ARTICLESocial Indicators Research2021Cited by: 5References: 4
The effects of welfare participation on parenting stress and parental engagement using an instrumental variables approach: Evidence from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Open AccessJulia Shu‐huah Wang, Julia Shu-Huah Wang et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2021References: 70
The effects of universal child allowance on family expenditure in Taiwan
Open AccessJulia Shu‐huah Wang, Julia Shu-Huah Wang et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2021Cited by: 1References: 22
The effects of multiple welfare program participatifon on educational expenditures and time use: Evidence from the social safety net in China
Open AccessXi Zhao, Julia Shu‐huah Wang et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2021References: 51
What Explains the Gap in Welfare Use Among Immigrants and Natives
Open AccessXiaoning Huang, Neeraj Kaushal et al.ARTICLEPopulation Research and Policy…2021Cited by: 3References: 43