Lecturer of Sociology, School of Communication, Society and Culture, Macquarie University

Dr Hang Young Lee is a Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Communication, Society and Culture at Macquarie University. He is a quantitative sociologist whose research focuses on income and wealth inequality. He is particularly interested in identifying the socio-demographic characteristics of the extremely rich and the extremely poor, and in illuminating the economic and social processes that drive growing economic inequality.

Relevant recent outputs:

• Keister, L. A., Lee, H. Y., & Yavorsky, J. E. (2021). Gender and Wealth in the Super Rich: Asset Differences in Top Wealth Households in the United States, 1989–2019. Sociologica, 25–55.

• Keister, L. A., & Lee, H. Y. (2017). The Double One Percent: Identifying an Elite and a Super-Elite Using the Joint Distribution of Income and Net Worth. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 1–12.