2025
Heeyoung Lee and Tse-Chuan Yang
"How Does County Educational Composition Affect Mortality"
Lerner Center Population Health Research Brief Series, Research Brief #139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14305/rt.lerner.2025.22
Heeyoung Lee and Tse-Chuan Yang
"Unequal Spillover of Human Capital: Longitudinal Analysis of Mortality Among Populations by College Degree in US Counties, 2010-2022"
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2025.107646
Tse-Chuan Yang, Carla Shoff, Kate Strully, and Heeyoung Lee
"Features of Residential Counties and Individual Health Conditions for Opioid Use Disorder Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries"
The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf069
Heeyoung Lee and Matt Vogel
"Exposure to Police Killing and Adolescents' Self-Concept: Diverging Effects for Black and White American Youths"
Journal of Adolescence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12490
Seong-Jo Jung, Heeyoung Lee, and Chan S. Suh
"Moving Apart and Coming Together: The Dynamics of Coalition Building in the Case of South Korean LGBTQ Movement"
Journal of Homosexuality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2024.2378743
Heeyoung Lee and Seong-Jo Jung
"Gender Differences in the Relationship between Coming Out as LGB to Family and Depression in South Korea"
Society and Mental Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/21568693241242400
2024 Paul Meadows, Excellence in Research Award Winner, Sociology Department, University at Albany, SUNY
2024
Heeyoung Lee and Tse-Chuan Yang
"Spatial and Temporal Dimension of Black-White Mental Health Paradox in the US: Effect of Cumulative Neighborhood Disadvantage"
Population Research & Policy Review
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-024-09922-2
Heeyoung Lee
"State-Level Structural Sexism and Adolescent Sexual Violence Victimization in the US"
Child Abuse and Neglect
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107096
Heeyoung Lee
"Delinquency During Puberty as a Biosocial Behavior: Time-Varying Effects of Social Contexts on Girl's Delinquency in South Korea"
Criminal Justice and Behaviors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548241276087
2022 Paul Meadows, Excellence in Research Award Winner, Sociology Department, University at Albany, SUNY
Heeyoung Lee, Sooyeon Moon, and Na-Young Lee
"Industry Culture Matters: Sexual Harassment in the South Korean Film Industry"
Violence Against Women
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012231203001
2023
Seong-Jo Jung and Heeyoung Lee
"Open, Discreet, and Repressive Closet: Latent Class Analysis on the Patterns of LGBTQ+ Youth's Coming Out"
The Korean Journal of Sociology [in Korean]
2023 Graduate Student Research Award Winner, Sociology Department, Chung-Ang University
2021
Heeyoung Lee, Dawool Cheong, and Seoung-Jo Jung
"A Democratic Response to COVID-19 or Governance with People Without Rights"
Memory & Vision [in Korean]
2021 Democracy Academic Paper Contest Winner, Korean Democracy Foundation
2022 Academic Paper Award Winner, People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
2019
Heeyoung Lee and Na-Young Lee
"Constituting 'Premature Girls' during the 1960s-70s in South Korea: A Gendered Regime of Sexual Efficiency"
The Journal of Asian Women [in Korean]
Heeyoung Lee and Na-Young Lee
"Constructing the National Body: Child Development in the Postcolonial Nation-State during the 1960s - 1970s"
Society and History [in Korean]
Tse-Chuan Yang, Carla Shoff, Heeyoung Lee, and Kiwoong Park
"Research Note: Opioid Use Disorder Diagnosis during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Mortality Rates among Older Medicare Beneficiaries in the US"
Revise and Resubmit
Heeyoung Lee
"Permeable Boundaries: How Neighboring States' Policy Environments Shape Local Mortality Rates in The United States"
Revise and Resubmit
Heeyoung Lee and Matt Vogel
"Privilege or Threat: American Youth Responses to Contested Racial Boundaries"
Under Review
Heeyoung Lee
"Geographic Structure of Health Disparities in the US: Decomposing Compositional and Contextual Effects Across Census Tracts, Counties, and States"
Under Review
Tse-Chuan Yang, Heeyoung Lee, and Golam Morshed Suhel
"Age Segregation and Death of Despair among Older American"
Under Review
Matt Vogel, Heeyoung Lee, Taylor Kaser, and Yoobin Kim
"Misappropriating Vulnerability: Assessing the Social Vulnerability Index as a Predictor of Firearm Violence"
Heeyoung Lee and Patricia Homan
"Long-Term Effect of Structural Racism on Cardiopulmonary Symptoms in The U.S."
Kate Strully, Chris Lowenstein, David Rehkoph, and Heeyoung Lee
"The Earned Income and Child Tax Credits, Racial-Ethnic Labor Market Inequality, and Health and Income Disparities"
Heeyoung Lee and Scott Schieman
"Working at Home and Work Stress"
Heeyoung Lee, Jungmin Shin, and Jonathan Dirlam
"Structural Sexism and Sexual Harassment"
Heeyoung Lee
"Cognitive Decline after Partner Loss in The U.S.: Heterogeneous Impact across Race"
Heeyoung Lee
"Places Where Social Capital Matters for Residents' Health"