Nanum Jeon is a PhD candidate in Sociology at UCLA. Her research interests include social stratification, gender inequality, and quantitative methods. She has a BA in Sociology from Ewha Womans University in South Korea and an MA in Public Policy from the University of Tokyo. Her peer-reviewed publications examine topics like gender ideology in South Korea, perceptions of atypical parents, and using machine learning for social science. She has presented her work at conferences and received fellowships including the Donald J. Treiman Research Fellowship from UCLA.

1. Last Updated: March 23, 2023
NANUM JEON
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Social Stratification and Mobility, Social Demography, Gender Inequality, Quantitative Methods (Causal
Inference and Machine Learning), East Asia
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
2019 – present
M.S. in Statistics
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
2021 – present
M.A. in Public Policy
University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2017
B.A. in Sociology and B.A. in Society and Justice (Scranton Honors Program)
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
2015
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Jeon, Nanum. 2023. “Swapping gender traditionalism: Christianity, Buddhism, and gender ideology in South Korea.”
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. https://doi.org/10.1111/jssr.12826
Quadlin, Natasha, Nanum Jeon, Long Doan, and Brian Powell. 2022. “Untangling perceptions of atypical
parents.” Journal of Marriage and Family, 84(4), 1175– 1195. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12850
Lundberg, Ian, Jennie E. Brand, and Nanum Jeon. 2022. “Researcher reasoning meets computational capacity:
Machine learning for social science”. Social Science Research, 108, 102807.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102807
WORKING PAPERS
Jeon, Nanum and Jennie E. Brand. “The impact of college degrees in reducing COVID-era labor market racial
disparities.”
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Department of Sociology
Department of Statistics
California Center for Population Research
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Haines Hall 228, 375 Portola Plaza,
Los Angeles 90095, CA
njeon@g.ucla.edu
nanumjeon.org

2. Jeon, Nanum. 2023. “U.S. women's heterogeneous employment patterns across the life course after divorce.”
International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28),
Paris, France (May)
Jeon, Nanum and Jennie E. Brand. 2023. “The impact of college degrees in reducing COVID-era labor market racial
disparities.” All-UC Demography Conference, Irvine, CA, USA (May).
Jeon, Nanum and Jennie E. Brand. 2023. “The impact of college degrees in reducing COVID-era labor market racial
disparities.” Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, USA (April).
Jeon, Nanum. 2022. “Gender ideology, religious affiliation, and subjective religiosity in South Korea.” Annual
Meeting of the Population Association of America, Virtual (April).
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Donald J. Treiman Research Fellowship
The UCLA California Center for Population Research
2023
Kawahara Fellowship for pre-dissertation research
The UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies
2021
Kwanjeong Overseas Scholarship
Kwanjeong Educational Foundation
(Competitive scholarship awarded for doctoral research abroad)
2019 – present
Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO) Scholarship
Japan Student Services Organization, Japan
2015 – 2017
Korea WEST (Work, English Study, Travel) Program Fellowship
National Institute for International Education, South Korea
2014 – 2015
Asan Young Fellowship
Asan Institute for Policy Studies and Asan Nanum Foundation, South Korea
2013
Mirae Asset Scholarship
Mirae Asset Financial Group, South Korea
2012
Dean’s List
Ewha Womans University, South Korea
2009, 2010, 2012
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
Research Assistant
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Research projects with Professor Randall Akee and Emilia Simeonova studying the
impact of Covid-19 on Native Americans in the United States
2021 – 2022
Research Assistant
Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
• Cleaned survey data and conducted Stata analysis to examine the relationship between
Japanese Americans’ self-rated health, their ties to Japan, and marital status.
2018

3. Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies,
Washington D.C., United States
• Assisted in writing the book Singapore: Smart City, Smart State by Kent E. Calder (2016).
2014 – 2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Teaching Assistant
Sociology of Gender, Occupations & Professions, Sociology of Education
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2021, 2023
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Capacity Building and Training Associate
Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan
• Organized and drafted agenda for 2018 and 2019 ADBI-OECD-ILO Roundtable on
Labor Migration in Asia.
• Write and prepare policy briefs, project proposals, presentations, opening and closing
remarks and other publications in collaboration with senior economists for Asian
government officials.
2017 – 2019
STATISTICAL AND LANGUAGE SKILLS
Statistical Analysis: R, Stata, C, SQL
Language Proficiency: Fluent in English and Japanese, and Native in Korean
SERVICE
Organizer
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science-UCLA
2023
Student Organizer
Social Inequality Data Science Lab
2021 – present
Student Organizer
Family Working Group,
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
2020 – 2022
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
American Sociological Association (ASA)
American Economic Association (AEA)
Population Association of America (PAA)
International Sociological Association Research Committee 28 on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28)
Association of Korean Sociologists in America (AKSA)