Milly Yang is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at Yale University. 

Her research centers on immigration, family demography, and inequality. Milly's dissertation focuses on high-skilled immigration to the United States, examining how visa policies and growing immigration restrictions shape high-skilled migrants' labor market outcomes and long-term settlement decisions, particularly among H-1B visa holders and international students. She uses temporary legal status as both a theoretical construct and grounds for empirical analysis, exploring how it influences immigrants with deemed "deserving" traits.

Milly's research combines analysis of large-scale administrative records, nationally representative survey data, and an original longitudinal mixed-methods study. Trained as a social demographer, she has also studied Asian Americans' educational outcomes, fertility and childcare disruptions during COVID-19, and union formation in China.

Her research has been published in academic journals such as Sociology, Population Research and Policy Review, Journal of Family Issues, and Chinese Journal of Sociology. Milly received her B.A. in Sociology and Economics from Grinnell College.

You can view her CV here.