PAS 2025 Best Student Paper Award

We are pleased to announce that the winner of

Population Association of Singapore’s 2025 Best Student Paper Award

is

Ms Jinhan Liu

for their outstanding paper titled

“Whom to Marry Matters: Educational Assortative Mating and Mental Health Over the Life Course and Across Birth Cohorts in China”

Jinhan’s paper applies a life course perspective to examine the impact of educational assortative mating on mental health trajectories, with a focus on birth cohort variations. Drawing on nationally representative longitudinal data from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS), the paper offers a strong theoretical foundation and effectively contextualizes the relationship between educational assortative mating and health outcomes within the Chinese context. .

Honorable Mention

We would also like to congratulate the honorable mention of the award,

Mr Yongjing Ping,

for their contributions with

“Joint Trajectories of Burden and Benefits of Caregiving Among Informal Caregivers of Older Adults”

Congratulations and thank you to all the participants on their remarkable efforts and we wish you all the best in your future endeavours!