Wendy R. Wang is the Director of Research and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, where she studies demographic trends, marriage, family formation, and well-being. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Maryland and previously served as a Senior Researcher at the Pew Research Center. Her work has been covered in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Wall Street Journal, and focuses particularly on the relationship between family structure and social outcomes for adults and children.