About the authors

Wang Feng is Professor of Sociology and Demography at Fudan University in China and Professor and former Department Chair of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution andserved as Director of the Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy in Beijing. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. He has served as a member of scientific panels of the International Union for the Scientific Studies of Population (1991–1994, 2010–2013), the Global Agenda Council on Population Growth of the World Economic Forum (2009–2011), and the Expert Group for the United Nations Population Division.

Shen Ke is an Assistant Professor at the Demographic Research Institute of Fudan University in China. Her major areas of research include health economics, population aging, and population polices. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from Peking University.

Li Ding is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology and Population Studies at Renmin University in China. He holds a Ph.D. from Peking University, with a research focus on social stratification and mobility among Chinese peasants. Within the NTA project, he is working on population aging and social change in China.