Youngjin Stephanie Hong

Assistant Professor, School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University

Hello! Welcome to my personal website. I am an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare. Prior to joining the school, I earned my MSW and PhD in Social Work from the University of Chicago and was a postdoctoral trainee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2024 to 2026.

My interdisciplinary scholarship is motivated by the question of “how do social policies shape child and family well-being and promote health, economic, and racial equity?” I view that social policies serve as public investments in families and children by influencing parents’ economic, health, and time resources, and in turn, children’s well-being. In my dissertation research, I focused on children’s health and developmental outcomes, which I expanded to other areas of child well-being, particularly child maltreatment risk, during my postdoctoral training. I use advanced quantitative methods, including quasi-experimental methods, and employ both survey and administrative datasets.