Chenhong is a social policy researcher with a particular interest in social assistance and housing policies for people living in poverty and other vulnerable populations. Her scholarship spans different stages across the social policy spectrum: policy design, policy implementation, and public’s policy preferences and attitudes. Her current research pursues three lines of inquiry: (1) cross-national and subnational variations in social policy design —the forces driving them and their effects on people’s well-being and behavior; (2) factors that shape people’s take-up of social benefits and services (e.g., administrative burden and welfare stigma); and (3) the public’s perceptions of welfare deservingness.