Chenhong Peng

Chenhong’s research interests are in social policy and are guided by three questions: What are the variations in social policy design and development? What are the forces driving social policy variations? What are the effects of social policy on people’s well-being and behaviors? Within social policy, her primary areas of interest are poverty and social protection policy. She has investigated the determinants of poverty, poverty dynamics, intergenerational poverty, and subjective poverty in Hong Kong. She is currently working on several research projects, including subnational variations in public assistance program (Dibao) in mainland China, social assistance regimes in East Asia, and the determinants and impacts of local migrant housing policy in mainland China. Besides investigating poverty and social protection policy, she also conducts research on old-age income protection policy and migration policy. Her research goal is to enhance evidence-based social policymaking.

Publications

• Peng, C.H., & Wang, J. S-H. (forthcoming). Accommodating China’s floating population: Local variations and determinants of housing policies for rural migrant workers. The China Quarterly.
• Peng, C.H., & Wang, J. S-H. (forthcoming). Internal fiscal constraints, top-down pressure or horizontal competition? Local integration of urban-rural social-assistance programmes in China. The China Quarterly.
• Peng, C.H., Wang, J. S. H., Zhu, Y., & Zeng, Y. (2021). The effects of an old-age allowance programme on intergenerational interactions in Taiwan: Heterogeneous effects by adult children’s motives for giving. Journal of Social Policy, 1-28.
• Peng, C.H. (2021). What makes people feel poor when they are economically non-poor? Investigating the role of intergenerational mobility and comparison with friends. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 75, 100645.
• Peng, C., Fang, L., Wang, J. S. H., Law, Y. W., Zhang, Y., & Yip, P. S. (2019). Determinants of poverty and their variation across the poverty spectrum: evidence from Hong Kong, a high-income society with a high poverty level. Social Indicators Research, 144(1), 219-250.

Externally funded research

• Co-Investigator (2021-2023). Shock-Responsive Social Protection Systems for Low-Income Families under COVID-19 in East Asia. Funded by General Research Fund (GRF), Research Grant Council (HK$610,680)
• Co-Investigator (2020-2022). Stigmatization of Emerging Infectious Diseases and its Intervention Mechanism. Funded by The National Social Science Fund of China (RMB 200,000)