Ohjae Gowen (권오재)

Ohjae Gowen is a sociologist studying family dynamics, social stratification, demography, gender, and labor markets. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University. One line of his research asks how the responsibility of childrearing is unevenly distributed across families, the state, and the market, and how this distribution shapes the consequences of parenthood across the life course. Another line of his research examines the causes of marriage decline and low fertility in East Asia, especially Korea. He often uses large-scale longitudinal data to answer these questions, and his work has appeared in Social Forces, Sociological Science, and European Sociological Review. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.