Page 133 - Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Proceedings 2017-18

School of Humanities and Social Science
Division of Social Science

regulatory authorities. This report aims to investigate systematic risks of P2P lending and related regulatory
development in China. Firstly, it will introduce the burgeoning market of internet finance in China. Secondly, operating
models and common illegal practices of P2P lending would be illustrated through the case study of a collapsed platform.
Thirdly, both the effectiveness and deficiency of the current regulatory regime will be analyzed to emphasize the great
supervision difficulty. Based on the above, further research topics are also mentioned for more in-depth investigation.

Early Childhood Intervention Study to Alleviate Poverty and Promote Productive Aging in Hong Kong

Supervisor: WANG Yanrong / SOSC Co-Supervisor WU Xiaogang / SOSC
SUNG-CHAN Po Lin Pauline / IPP
Student: LEE Hojun / QSA Course: UROP1100, Summer

The goal of this study is to explore the relationship between parenting stress and development of children between the
ages of 24 months and 48 months. The study focuses on literature review on studies that have analyzed the various risk
factors that may be associated with parenting stress, and with these identified risk factors, the study estimates the level
of parenting stress. In the future studies, statistical models will be used to analyze the data collected in this research
program. From the findings in literature, the analysis is expected to reveal a correlation between parenting stress and
cognitive, linguistic, and motor development.

Supervisor: WANG Yanrong / SOSC Co-Supervisor WU Xiaogang / SOSC
SUNG-CHAN Po Lin Pauline / IPP
Student: LI Zonghao / GCS Course: UROP1100, Fall
SIU Tsz Chun / GCS UROP1100, Fall

The social inequality and poverty are still at unimaginable scales posing challenges to the healthy development of all
economies, particularly for Hong Kong. The city has hit a record of high Gini coefficient in 2016. It has been discussed
extensively by social policy makers and social scientists the possible ways to mend the widening gap. One way is to
guarantee each citizen a healthy childhood and consequently an equal opportunity on social mobility in the future.
Bearing these objectives, in the first part of this research, we studied the possible sources of inequalities in parenting
and reviewed previous studies on the same topic in different contexts. In second part, focusing on situations in Hong
Kong, we combined our field work observations with the established theories in this research area. This paper mainly
focused on literature about parent-child interactions and toddler development, with an aim to discuss about parenting
involvement and practices, like feeding habit and language environment, that play essential roles in the cognitive
development of preschool children, specifically, the language acquisition.

Supervisor: WANG Yanrong / SOSC Co-Supervisor WU Xiaogang / SOSC
SUNG-CHAN Po Lin Pauline / IPP
Student: TAN Jingjing / GCS Course: UROP1100, Spring

Under the international division of labor, more and more female labor migrates from under-developed countries to
industrial societies to serve as reproductive labor. The global prevalence of independent female migration entails the
problem of “Missing Mothers” which has twofold of influence, including both the absence of migrant mothers as well as
the relatively class-privileged working mothers. The potential influence brought by the “Missing Mothers” on both the
sending and receiving families of domestic helpers would be investigated, including the reasons of “Missing Mothers”
and its influence on intergenerational relationship as well as the development of the affected children. Results

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