About

Dr. Xize WANG is an assistant professor at the Department of Real Estate of National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a faculty affiliate of NUS Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies (IREUS) and NUS Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR).

His research interests lie in identifying evidence-based, innovative policy tools to make cities healthier and more sustainable, with a particular focus on: (1) urban environment and health, and (2) sustainable mobility. His research, which appears in leading journals such as Urban Studies, Transport Research Part A, and Transport Research Part D, establishes theoretical and empirical connections between the household-scale urban environment and mental health, as well as examines the effects on demographic and urban health factors in shaping sustainable transport policy.

He is currently an editorial board member of Journal of Urban Health and Transportation Research Part D. Prior to NUS, he has been a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Development at University of Southern California, a Master in Urban & Regional Planning at University of Minnesota, and a B.E. in Urban Planning and a B.A. in Economics in 2010 at Peking University, where he was a recipient of China’s National Scholarship.

个人简介

王锡泽博士是新加坡国立大学房地产系的助理教授，并同时担任新加坡国立大学城市与房地产研究中心(IREUS)和家庭与人口研究中心(CFPR)的研究员。

他的研究致力于探索循证、创新的政策工具，以推动城市向更健康、更可持续的方向发展，重点关注两大领域：（1）城市环境与健康；（2）可持续交通。其研究成果发表于《Urban Studies》《Transport Research Part A》和《Transport Research Part D》等权威期刊，不仅构建了家庭尺度城市环境与心理健康之间的理论框架与实证关联，还深入剖析了人口结构特征与城市健康要素对可持续交通政策制定的影响机制。

他目前担任期刊 《Journal of Urban Health》和《Transportation Research Part D》的编委。他曾在加州大学伯克利分校担任博士后研究员。他于南加州大学获得城市规划与发展博士学位，在明尼苏达大学取得城市与区域规划硕士学位，在北京大学获得城市规划和经济学学士学位并荣获国家奖学金。

Selected Publications/代表性成果

Home-Made Blues: Residential Crowding and Mental Health in Beijing, China
(with Tao Liu)
Urban Studies, Vol. 60(3), pp. 461-482, 2023.
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Summary: Living in a crowded place – measured by both sqm per person and persons per bedroom – is significantly associated with a higher risk of depression. Residential crowding is associated with depression by serving as a direct stressor rather than triggering higher life stress.

The roads one must walk down: Commute and depression for Beijing’s residents
(with Tao Liu)
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Vol. 109, 103316, 2022.
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Summary: Those taking longer time to work have higher risks for depression - especially for motorcycle/moped takers, older people and blue-collar workers.
Media Coverage: Lianhe Zaobao ThinkChina | Caixin Global

Support for market-based and command-and-control congestion relief policies in Latin American cities: Effects of mobility, environmental health, and city-level factors
(with Daniel A. Rodriguez and Anjali Mahendra)
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 146, pp. 91-108, 2021.
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Summary: Personal-level factors (e.g. traffic delay and respiratory diseases) correlate with the public support for road pricing or driving ban; while city-level factors (e.g. PM2.5 and income inequaliy) correlates with the relative preferences between these two policies.
Policy Impacts: World Bank | Inter-American Development Bank | U.S. Department of Transportation

Has the relationship between urban and suburban automobile travel changed across generations? Comparing Millennials and Generation Xers in the United States
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 129, pp. 107-122, 2019.
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Summary: By tracking Millennials’ and Gen Xers’ driving behavior over three decades, I find that Millennials’ lower automobility cannot be fully attributed to urban living, recession or delayed life-cycles. Demographic theory suggests that such generational differences may remain in later life stages.

Commute patterns and depression: Evidence from eleven Latin American cities
(with Daniel A. Rodriguez, Olga L. Sarmiento and Oscar Guaje)
Journal of Transport and Health, Vol. 14, 100607, 2019.
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Summary: Longer time spent in one’s journey to work - especially time in traffic delays - is associated with higher probability of depression. Policy Impacts: United Nations-CEPAL | Asian Development Bank | Congress of the Phillipines