研究自述
做為一個身處低生育率國家的家庭人口學者,我在過去五年中的學術出版關注急速家庭變遷所帶來的現象:低生育率、人口老化、晚婚晚育與多元家庭興起等議題。主要核心關懷是人口變遷過程中社會階層與性別的不平等。研究貢獻則在於持續紀錄後工業化台灣社會中家庭行為的社經與性別差異,以及多元家庭價值在過去數十年社會轉型過程中的演變。除了專注深耕台灣本土家庭研究,也持續與歐美學界同仁進行國際比較研究。
(一)婚姻與家庭變遷
首先,男女結婚年齡與夫妻年齡差的總體趨勢,在過去一個多世紀有了可觀的演變,除了婚齡大幅延後之外,差距很大的老夫少妻婚姻逐漸減少,而生命經驗相似的同齡婚益發普遍。原先看似專屬東方家庭系統的全民結婚與早婚特色 (universal and early marriage),變得不再那麼「東方」;也和過去兩百年瑞典的典型西方婚姻模式相比時,從具有相當鮮明的對比性,轉為高度相似性,深值玩味 (Cheng & Kolk, 2021)。
此外,台灣的總體數據顯示低社經(高中學歷以下)的女性與男性,其初婚平均年齡在過去十年的攀升速度遠高於高學歷女性。此外,低社經的女性的結婚意願遠低於高學歷女性(50% vs. 90%)。在分析2010年全國婚姻登記資料後發現,大學學歷的女性整體的結婚傾向比高中以下學歷者高出許多,如此的正向教育斜率翻轉了2000年時同樣數據所呈現的負向斜率 (Cheng, 2014)。儘管2010全國適婚年齡人口中,低教育程度女性已婚率仍較大學學歷女性為高,若類似的教育正斜率持續多年,整體適婚人口已婚率的教育分布勢將改變。至於婚姻的中止,女性離婚的教育斜率約在1980年代初由正轉負,而男性則在1990年代方才出現反轉。進入廿一世紀後,世代離婚型態分析中顯示兩性各自的離婚率負向教育差異益趨擴大,尤以男性為甚。換言之,晚近台灣社會的高離婚率實由中低教育程度者大量離婚所撐起 (Cheng, 2016)。
至於台灣的傳統婚姻與家庭價值,在過去廿、卅年已朝更開放的方向轉變,但在生育觀念方面轉變較少 (Cheng and Yang, 2021),某種程度使得年輕一代進入婚姻將面對更多調適,也可能為婚姻帶來一定程度的衝擊與不穩定。婚育觀念的變與不變也展現在婚前親密關係:越來越多年輕一代經驗了婚前性行為與婚前懷孕,而同居行為也更普遍,但在進入同居時有結婚計畫者卻日益減少。除了這些跨時的改變,同居與婚前懷孕有日漸傾向集中於低社經族群的傾向 (Cheng, forthcoming)。
(二)低生育率和人口老化
這一連串的家庭變動中,最值得關注的莫過於是每年媒體和輿論不斷熱議的少子女化問題。然而在諸多討論低生育率生成原因的現有文獻中,較少觸及文化因素,而我認為強調長幼階序的東亞儒家父權文化特別值得被關注:尤其是它面對女性地位迅速提升時顯得缺乏彈性,使得生命歷程更多元卻也面對更多挑戰的年輕一代在婚育規劃上顯得左支右絀,而進一步導致婚育停滯、政策失靈的現狀 (Cheng 2020)。種種因素中,家戶內的性別分工更是經常被檢視,且被認為與低生育率高度相關的個體層次因素。根據實證分析2016婦女婚育就業調查的資料後發現:(一)丈夫較積極的育兒分工,遠比家務分工對提升妻子生育第二胎的意願有更正向的效果;(二)加入常被忽略的「教育程度」,更凸顯丈夫的育兒分工僅對具高等教育學歷女性有提升二胎意願的效果 (Cheng and Hsu, 2020)。
承上,晚婚以至於終身未婚比例的大幅上升,是近數十年來最值得關注的人口轉變之一,除了將驅動生育率繼續探底,也將進一步使台灣未來的勞力短缺問題更趨嚴重。而我參與的一項國際合作研究更顯示,台灣的終身未婚比例在2050年將可能是東亞諸國最高 (Esteve, Kashyap, García-Román, Cheng, Fukuda, Nie, and Lee, 2020),值得相關政府與政策研擬單位正視。然而烏雲的銀邊是:雖然短期內迅速拉高生育率非易事,但台灣的女性勞動參與率有長足增長空間,在生育率很難迅速回轉的情況下,足以消弭一部分勞動缺口。簡言之,多年來高等教育不斷擴張之下,有越來越多女性具備投入職場的人力資本。未來若能更充分利用高品質女性勞動力,協助更多女性進入職場,並降低女性續留職場的障礙,因為低生育率引發的勞動缺口將可能沒有預期中巨大 (Cheng and Loichinger, 2017)。類似的女性勞動力低度運用狀態同樣存在生育率不斷下降的其他東亞社會,因此各國政府應正視加入了教育面向的人口與勞動推計,具有對評估未來勞動力規劃與人口危機的重要性。加入了教育面向的三維度人口與勞動推計,其政策意涵將遠超過一般常年使用的兩維度(即年齡與性別)推計結果 (Loichinger and Cheng, 2018)。
(三)公眾意見在同性戀議題上的態度變遷
有關公眾對同性戀者的態度轉變,研究發現自1995至2012年間,台灣整體社會對同志的接受度是越來越高的,此包容度提升幅度在東亞國家中是最迅速的。公眾對同志逐年友善與包容的態度,最主要是受世代交替的影響,其次是來自於世代內態度變遷的影響(Cheng, Wu & Adamczyk, 2016)。隨著台灣經濟發展、教育擴張、解嚴並進一步民主深化後,整體社會對性少數者的公民權益也日趨重視,可以預見的是,隨著時間推移,對同志的接受度與友善程度將可望持續提高。另一研究則發現,在世界諸國中,在控制經濟發展後,受儒家文化影響的社會普遍對同性戀者包容度較歐美國家為低,其中儒家信仰捍衛家庭整體性與強調延續家庭血脈等價值,可視為其包容度偏低的重要因素之一,主要乃因同性戀者在這樣的文化脈絡下被視為脫離儒家家庭規範且無法延續香火(Adamczyk & Cheng, 2015)。
著作目錄
期刊論文
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2024, “Who Gets the Kid? Female empowerment and child custody in Taiwan”, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 10, 1-14. (SSCI, Scopus) (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2024, “Les politiques pronatalistes à Taïwan et en Corée du Sud”, Informations sociales, n° 211 Politiques familiales et natalité, 79-87. (cairn.info) (全文)
- Christian Dudel, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, and Sebastian Klüsener, 2023, “Shifting Parental Age Differences in High-Income Countries: Insights and implications”, Population and Development Review, 49(4), 879-908. (SSCI, Others) (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2023, “The Changing Face of Intimate Premarital Relationships in Taiwan”, Journal of Marriage and Family, 85(4), 987-1001. (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Martin Kolk, 2021, “An East–West dichotomy? Shifting marriage age patterns in Taiwan and Sweden over two centuries”, The History of the Family, 26(3), 434-465. (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Chih-lan Winnie Yang, 2021, “Continuity and Changes in Attitudes toward Marriage in Contemporary Taiwan”, Journal of Population Research, 38(2), 139-167. (Scopus, EBSCO) (全文)
- Albert Esteve, Ridhi Kashyap, Joan García-Román, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Setsuya Fukuda, Wanli Nie, and Hyun Ok Lee, 2020, “Demographic Change and Increasing Late Singlehood in East Asia, 2010–2050”, Demographic Research, 43, 1367-1398. (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2020, “Ultra-low Fertility in East Asia: Confucianism and its discontents”, Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 18, 83-120. (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Chen-Hao Hsu, 2020, “No More Babies without Help for Whom? Education, Division of Labor, and Fertility Intentions”, Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(4), 1270-1285. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Elke Loichinger, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2018, “Feminising the Workforce in Ageing East Asia? The Potential of Skilled Female Labour in Four Advanced Economies”, Journal of Population Research, 35(2), 187-215. (Scopus, EBSCO) (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2017, “Ethnic Variations in Characteristics of First Unions among Asian American Young Adults”, Euramerica (歐美研究), 47(2), 177-214. (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Elke Loichinger, 2017, “The Future Labor Force of an Aging Taiwan: The importance of education and female labor supply”, Population Research and Policy Review, 36(3), 441-466. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2017, “Longer Exposure to Obesity, Slimmer Chance of College? Body Weight Trajectories, Non-cognitive Skills, and College Completion”, Youth & Society, 49(2), 203-227. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Fen-Chieh Felice Wu, and Amy Adamczyk, 2016, “Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality in Taiwan, 1995-2012”, Chinese Sociological Review, 48(4), 317-349. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2016, “More Education, Fewer Divorces? Shifting Education Differentials of Divorce in Taiwan from 1975 to 2010”, Demographic Research, 34: 927-942. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Fen-Chieh Felice Wu, 2016, “Going It Alone and Adrift: The Socioeconomic Profile and Parental Involvement of Single-Father and Single-Mother Families in Post-Industrial Taiwan”, Journal of Population Research, 33, 147-172. (SCOPUS, EBSCO) (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Amy Adamczyk and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2015, “Explaining Attitudes about Homosexuality in Confucian and non-Confucian Nations: Is there a 'Cultural' Influence?”, Social Science Research, 51, 276-289. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2014, “Changing Partner Choice and Marriage Propensities by Education in Post-industrial Taiwan, 2000-2010”, Demographic Research, 31: 1007-1042. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2013, “The Role of Non-cognitive Traits in Higher Education Achievement among Economically Disadvantaged Taiwanese Youths”, Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy (人文及社會科學集刊), 25(4), 735-764. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Mikko Myrskyla, Joshua Goldstein and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2013, “New Cohort Fertility Forecasts for the Developed World: Rises, Falls, and Reversals”, Population and Development Review, 39(1), 31-56. (全文) (中文摘譯) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Nancy S. Landale, 2011, “Adolescent Overweight, Social Relationships, and the Transition to First Sex: Gender and Racial Variations”, Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 43(1), 6-15. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Nancy S. Landale, 2011, “Adolescent Precursors of Early Union Formation among Asian American and White Young Adults”, Journal of Family Issues, 32(2), 209-236. (全文) (中文摘譯)
- Marni L. Kan, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Nancy S. Landale, and Susan M. McHale, 2010, “Longitudinal Predictors of Change in Number of Sexual Partners across Adolescence and Early Adulthood”, Journal of Adolescent Health, 46(1), 25-31. (全文) (全文) (中文摘譯) (全文)
- Robert Schoen, Nancy S. Landale, Kimberly Daniels, and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2009, “Social Background Differences in Early Family Behavior”, Journal of Marriage and Family, 71(2), 384-395. (全文) (中文摘譯) (全文)
- Robert Schoen and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2006, “Partner Choice and the Differential Retreat of Marriage”, Journal of Marriage and Family, 68(1), 1-10. (全文) (中文摘譯) (全文) (中文摘譯)
專書(論文集)之一章
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2025, “Marriage and Demography”, editor(s): Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, The Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies, pp. XX, Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill. (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Chen-Hao Hsu,2025,〈Partnering in East Asia〉,Dimitri Mortelmans, Laura Bernardi, and Brienna Perelli-Harris編,《Research Handbook on Partnering across the Life Course》,頁332–346,United Kingdom:Edward Elgar Publishing。 (全文)
- 鄭雁馨,2017,〈少而精的勞動力:老化社會人口教育結構的重要性〉,李宗榮、林宗弘編,《未竟的奇蹟:轉型中的台灣經濟與社會》,頁189-223,台北:中央研究院社會學研究所。
學術會議(研討會)論文
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2025, “Portraits of Same-sex Marriages in Taiwan, 2019–2022”, paper presented at International Population Conference, Brisbane, Australia: The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 2025-08-13 ~ 2025-08-18.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2025, “Portraits of Same-sex Marriages in Taiwan, 2019–2022”, paper presented at The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, D. C.: the Population Association of America, 2025-04-10 ~ 2025-04-13.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2024, “Who Gets the Kid? Child Custody and the Status of Women in Taiwan”, paper presented at European Population Conference, Edinburgh, the United Kingdom: European Association of Population Studies, 2024-06-12 ~ 2024-06-15.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2023,〈The Singles in Low Fertility Taiwan〉,發表於The UW-UoN Joint Conference: Taiwan in Transition,Nottingham, the United Kingdom:University of Nottingham,2023-06-15 ~ 2023-06-16。
- 鄭雁馨,2023,〈臺灣婚前同居行為的樣貌〉,發表於家庭與生活:臺灣社會變遷基本調查第三十九次研討會,台北:中央研究院社會學研究所,2023-01-06。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2022,〈No More Babies without Help for Whom? Education, Spousal Division of Labor, and Fertility Intentions in Taiwan〉,發表於2022 International Symposium: Harnessing the Dynamics of Population Change in East Asia,Online Meeting:Seoul National University,2022-12-08。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2019,〈Fertility Transition in Taiwan: Convergence or divergence of sex and educational differentials?〉,發表於Long-term Trends of Lowest-low Fertility in East Asia: Transition in Marital and Fertility Behavior,Seoul, South Korea:Korean Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHASA),2019-12-05 ~ 2019-12-06。
- Martin Kolk and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2019,〈Changing Sex Preferences for Children in Sweden and Taiwan: Evidence from 200 years of parity progression data〉,發表於Life at the Extremes 2.0: A new research agenda for studying historical life courses in the Netherlands and Taiwan,Taipei, Taiwan:Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and Radboud University (the Netherlands),2019-10-29 ~ 2019-10-31。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Elke Loichinger,2019,〈The Future Labor Force of an Aging Taiwan: The importance of education and female labor supply〉,發表於Taiwan in transition: Challenges Facing Taiwan's Economyand changing society,London, the United Kingdom:The SOAS Centre of Taiwan Studies (CTS) , University of London,2019-09-10 ~ 2019-09-11。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Martin Kolk,2019,〈Spousal Age Differences in Taiwan and Sweden: Shifting ages at marriage and changing age gaps over two centuries〉,發表於the 3rd European Society of Historical Demography Conference,Pécs, Hungary:The European Society of Historical Demography,2019-06-26 ~ 2019-06-29。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Chen-Hao Hsu,2019,〈No More Babies without Help for Whom? Education, Spousal Division of Labor, and Fertility Intentions in Taiwan〉,發表於the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America,Austin, Texas:The Population Association of America,2019-04-10 ~ 2019-04-13。
- Christian Dudel, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, and Sebastian Klüsener,2019,〈Remarkable Regularities in the Association of Maternal and Paternal Ages at Childbirth: Evidence from 15 high-income countries〉,發表於the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America,Austin, Texas:The Population Association of America,2019-04-10 ~ 2019-04-13。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Chen-Hao Hsu, 2019, “No More Babies without Help? Spousal Division of Labor and Fertility Intentions in Taiwan”, paper presented at The International Conference for the Effectiveness of Family Policies on Fertility: Policy Implication for Low Fertility in Korea, OECD Headquarters, Paris, France: INED and KIHASA, 2019-01-15.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2018,〈Fertility transition in Taiwan: Convergence or divergence of sex and educational differentials?〉,發表於The 4th Asian Population Association Conference,Shanghai, China:the Asian Population Association,2018-07-11 ~ 2018-07-14。
- Albert Esteve, Joan Garcia Roman, Ridhi Kashyap, Fukuda Setsuya, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Wanli Nie, and Hyun Ok Lee,2018,〈The Implications of Demographic Change for Asian Marriage Markets, 2000–2050〉,發表於The 4th Asian Population Association Conference,Shanghai, China:the Asian Population Association,2018-07-11 ~ 2018-07-14。
- Martin Kolk and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2018,〈Sex Composition and Parity Progression in Sweden and Taiwan: Evidence of changing gender preferences over 200 Years〉,發表於2018 European Population Conference,Brussels, Belgium:The European Assocation of Population Studies,2018-06-06 ~ 2018-06-09。
- Martin Kolk and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2018,〈Sex Composition and Parity Progression in Sweden and Taiwan: Evidence of Changing Gender Preferences From 200 Years of Micro Level Fertility Histories〉,發表於the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America,Denver, CO:The Population Association of America,2018-04-26 ~ 2018-04-28。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Thung-Hong Lin, 2017, “Female Empowerment Matters: A Global Study of the Legalization of Same-Sex Unions”, paper presented at 2017 International Populatin Conference, Cape Town, South Africa: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 2017-10-29 ~ 2017-11-04.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2017, “Long-Term Educational and Sex Differences in Period and Cohort Fertility Patterns in Taiwan”, paper presented at 2017 International Populatin Conference, Cape Town, South Africa: International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 2017-10-29 ~ 2017-11-04.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2017,〈台灣婚姻年齡配對趨勢的變遷:1976-2015〉,發表於變遷中的青年發展與華人家庭樣貌學術研討會,台北:中央研究院民族學研究所,2017-09-14 ~ 2017-09-15。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2017,〈Peer Influence, Personality Traits, and Future Aspirations among College Graduates: Evidence from Facebook and survey data〉,發表於2017 Sunbelt Conference,Beijing, China:INSNA,2017-05-30 ~ 2017-06-04。
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2017, “Spousal Characteristics and Divorce Risk: Gender and family changes in contemporary Taiwan, 1998-2013”, paper presented at 2017 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago, IL: Population Association of America, 2017-04-27 ~ 2017-04-29.
- Albert Esteve, Joan Garcia Roman, Ridhi Kashyap, Fukuda Setsuya, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Wanli Nie, and Hyun Ok Lee, 2017, “The Implications of Demographic Change for Asian Marriage Markets, 2000–2050”, paper presented at 2017 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Chicago, IL: Population Association of America, 2017-04-27 ~ 2017-04-29.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Chih-lan Winnie Yang, 2016, “Continuity and Changes in Attitudes toward Marriage in Taiwan, 1985-2015”, paper presented at Taiwan Social Change Survey 30th Anniversary Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2016-11-03 ~ 2016-11-04.
- Elke Loichinger and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2016, “Female Labor Supply in Aging East Asia: Past, Present, and Future Prospects in Four Advanced Economies”, paper presented at 2016 European Populatin Conference, Mainz, Germany: European Association of Population Studies, 2016-09-01 ~ 2016-09-03.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2016, “Spousal Characteristics and Divorce Risk: Gender and family changes in contemporary Taiwan, 1998-2013”, paper presented at 2016 European Populatin Conference, Mainz, Germany: European Association of Population Studies, 2016-09-01 ~ 2016-09-03.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Elke Loichinger, 2015, “Women’s Labor Potential in an Aging Taiwan: Population and labor force projections by education up to 2050”, paper presented at The 3rd APA Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: the Asian Population Association, 2015-07-27 ~ 2015-07-30.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2015, “Social Change and Age Hypergamy: The shift in spousal age preferences in Taiwan, 1976-2012”, paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Diego, USA: the Population Association of America, 2015-04-30 ~ 2015-05-02.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Elke Loichinger, 2015, “Women’s Labor Potential in an Aging Taiwan: Population and labor force projections by education up to 2050”, paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Diego, USA: the Population Association of America, 2015-04-30 ~ 2015-05-02.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Amy Adamczyk, Fen-Chieh Felice Wu, 2014, “Changing Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan, 1984-2012”, paper presented at Symposium of Family Research in Taiwan: Retrospect and Prospect, Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2014-07-11.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2014, “Changing Marriage Differentials by Age and Education in Taiwan, 1980-2010”, paper presented at 2014 European Population Conference, Budapest, Hungary: European Association of Population Studies, 2014-06-25 ~ 2014-06-28.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2014, “Changing Education Gap in Divorce Risk in Taiwan: Findings from period and cohort data”, paper presented at 2014 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Population Association of America, 2014-05-01 ~ 2014-05-03.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2014, “Changing Partner Choice and Marriage Propensities by Education in Taiwan, 2000-2010”, paper presented at 2014 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Population Association of America, 2014-05-01 ~ 2014-05-03.
- Amy Adamczyk and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2014, “Unraveling the Factors that Shape Tolerance for Homosexuality: A Focus on Differences between Asian and non-Asian Societies”, paper presented at 2014 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: Eastern Sociological Society, 2014-02-20 ~ 2014-02-23.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2013, “Adolescent Obesity and First Union Outcomes in Young Adulthood: Does dating experience tell the story?”, paper presented at 2013 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA: Population Association of America, 2013-04-11 ~ 2013-04-13.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2012, “Differential Patterns and Causes of Retreat from Marriage in an Era of Dramatic Family Change: Taiwan after the Millennium”, paper presented at 2012 European Population Conference, Stockholm, Sweden: The European Association for Population Studies, 2012-06-13 ~ 2012-06-16.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2012, “Body Weight Trajectories and College Completion: The role of non-cognitive traits as sources of resilience”, paper presented at 2012 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, USA: The Population Association of America, 2012-05-02 ~ 2012-05-06.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2012, “Ethnic Variations in First Union Characteristics among Asian American Young Adults”, paper presented at 2012 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA, USA: The Population Association of America, 2012-05-02 ~ 2012-05-06.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2012, “Non-cognitive Traits and Educational Achievement among Economically Disadvantaged Taiwanese Youths”, paper presented at The First World Congress of Taiwan Studies, Taipei, Taiwan: Academia Sinica, 2012-04-26 ~ 2012-04-28.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2012, “A Flight from Marriage? Gender and Educational Differentials in Patterns of Declining First Marriage Rates in Taiwan”, paper presented at 2012 Alpine Population Conference, La Thuile, Italy: Carlo F. Dondena Centre for Social Dynamics (Bocconi University, Italy) and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2012-01-15 ~ 2012-01-18.
- Myrskylä, Mikko, Joshua R. Goldstein, and Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2011, “Cohort Fertility Trends Reversing across the Developed World”, paper presented at The First Human Fertility Database Symposium: Period and cohort fertility dynamics in the developed world, Rostock, Germany: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2011-11-03 ~ 2011-11-04.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2011, “Social Antecedents and Union Outcomes of Adolescent Intimate Relationship Trajectory: A focus on overweight youth’s development”, 33 pages, paper presented at The International Symposium on Longevity, Health, and Society, Taipei, Taiwan: 中央研究院社會學研究所: 中國醫藥大學、中央研究院社會學研究所、國立成功大學老年學研究所、台灣健康與社會學社, 2011-06-24 ~ 2011-06-25.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2011, “Social Antecedents and Union Outcomes of Adolescent Intimate Relationship Trajectory: A focus on overweight youth’s development”, paper presented at 2011 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington D.C., USA: Population Association of America, 2011-03-30 ~ 2011-04-02.
- Kathryn Grace, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, and Joshua R. Goldstein, 2010, “The Susceptibility of Fertility Measures to Sampling Errors”, paper presented at European Population Conference, Vienna, Austria: European Association of Population Studies, 2010-09-01 ~ 2010-09-04.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng and Joshua R. Goldstein, 2010, “The Future of Completed Cohort Fertility in Low Fertility Countries: A Comparison of Forecasting Methods”, paper presented at 2010 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Dallas, Texas, USA: Population Association of America, 2010-04-15 ~ 2010-04-17.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2009, “Continuity and Changes in Socioeconomic Characteristics of Childless women in Europe”, paper presented at The Education and Demography conference, Vienna, Austria: Vienna Institute of Demography, 2009-11-30 ~ 2009-12-01.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2009, “Weight Status and Sexual Development from Adolescence to Young Adulthood”, paper presented at 2009 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Detroit, MI, USA: Population Association of America, 2009-04-30 ~ 2009-05-02.
- Marni L. Kan, Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, Nancy S. Landale, and Susan M. McHale, 2008, “Individual and Contextual Predictors of Trajectories of Adolescent Sexual Risk”, paper presented at 2008 Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA: Research on Adolescence, 2008-03-06 ~ 2008-03-09.
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2006, “Teenagers' Smoking Trajectories from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood”, paper presented at 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, USA: Population Association of America, 2006-03-30 ~ 2006-04-01.
研究/計畫報告
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2014,《Adolescent Body Weight Trajectories and Socioeconomic and Psychological Outcomes in Adulthood: The role of non-cognitive traits and interpersonal relationships as sources of resilience》,科技部委託。
他類論文a
- 鄭雁馨,2025,〈值得台灣借鏡的令和日本:人口學家讀《一億總下流?》〉,《Open Book閱讀誌》。 (全文)
- 鄭雁馨,2023,〈停滯的性別革命:生育不只是女人的事〉,《行政院性別視聽分享站「性別筆記」專欄》。 (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng,2023,〈Postcard from Taipei: The battle against falling births〉,《The World Today》。 (全文)
- 鄭雁馨,2022,〈臺灣低生育率的現象、成因與對策〉,《政府審計季刊》,第42卷第二期,Vol. 166, 3-17。
- 鄭雁馨,2021,〈政策之外:少子化台灣的重要課題〉,《思想坦克》。 (全文)
- 鄭雁馨,2021,〈台灣的低生育率現象該怎麼理解?〉,《台灣新社會智庫》。 (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2020, “Changing Families in Contemporary Taiwan”, Taiwan Insights. (全文)
- 鄭雁馨,2020,〈老化社會人口教育結構與擴大女性勞動參與的重要性〉,《人文與社會科學簡訊》,第21卷第三期,頁7-13。 (全文)
- 鄭雁馨,2019,〈關於女性生育的二三事:高教﹑遲育與外配〉,《巷仔口社會學(網站)》。 (全文)
- 鄭雁馨、許宸豪,2019,〈台灣超低生育率的迷思與現實〉,《巷仔口社會學(網站)》。 (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2017, “A long-awaited milestone for Asia: What does Taiwan’s ruling on same-sex marriage mean for the region?”, Policy Forum, ,. (全文)
- Yen-hsin Alice Cheng, 2016, “Better Education has Become a Stabilizer of Marriages in Taiwan”, N-IUSSP, ,. (全文)
- 顏維婷、鄭雁馨, 2016, “ 台灣真的對同志越來越友善嗎?”, 菜市場政治學(網站), 2016-06-27. (全文)
- 鄭雁馨, 2015, “家庭行為的社會不平等:台灣社會的新挑戰”, 中央研究院週報, ,. (全文)
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中央研究院社會學研究所研究員 (2023.03–)主要經歷
台灣社會學編輯委員(2026)奧地利國家科學院維也納人口研究年刊編輯委員 (2025.05–)
聯合國人口基金全球青年生育調查專家諮詢會成員 (2025)
美國婚姻與家庭期刊編輯委員(Journal of Marriage and Family) (2022–)
台灣社會學刊編輯委員 (2020–2022)
法國國家人口研究機構 (INED) 訪問學人 (2018.09–2019.08)
中央研究院社會學研究所副研究員 (2017.09–2023.03)
中央研究院社會學研究所助研究員 (2010.11–2017.09)
德國馬克斯浦朗克人口研究機構博士後研究員 (2008.09–2010.10)
最近研究計畫
台灣未婚青年的圖像(2025–2028)以包容為導向之科技計畫–青年就業、婚姻、生育現狀調查(2023–2025)
科技部台法 (MOST-ANR) 雙邊國際合作計畫:世代與性別調查在台灣和法國 (2022–2025, 台灣方計劃主持人)
二十一世紀台灣的離婚與子女監護權歸屬 (2022-2024)
邁向超低生育率:台灣生育變遷的過去、現在與未來 (2019–2021)
公元2050年的人口與勞動力素質推計:急速老化的台灣與其近鄰 (2016–2018)
學術獎項與榮譽
民國113年國科會傑出研究獎 (2025.02)Cheng (2023) 獲選2023中央研究院重要研究成果 (2024.01)
Cheng and Hsu (2020) 獲選2020中央研究院重要研究成果 (2021.01)
中央研究院年輕學者赴國外進修獎助 (赴法國巴黎國家人口研究機構L'Institut National d'Études Démographiques, INED) (2018.08–2019.08)
Cheng (2016) 獲選 2016中央研究院重要研究成果 (2017.01)
