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Jennie E. Brand


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Contact Information

Email    brand@soc.ucla.edu
Office  228 Haines Hall
Phone  310-206-1049
Jennie E. Brand is Professor of Sociology and Statistics.

She is Co-Director of the Center for Social Statistics (CSS) and Associate Director of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR). She will be Director of CCPR beginning in July 2018. Prof. Brand studies social stratification and inequality, mobility, social demography, education, and causal inference. Her research agenda encompasses three main areas: (1) access to and the impact of higher education; (2) the consequences of disruptive events, such as job displacement; and (3) causal inference and quantitative methods for panel data.

Degrees

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison

M.S., University of Wisconsin - Madison

B.A., University of California - San Diego

Awards

     ASA Methodology Leo Goodman Award, 2016
     Finalist for the International Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family
     Research, 2015
     ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility William Julius Wilson Early Career Award (Honorable
     Mention), 2014
     ASA Sociology of Education James Coleman Award, 2012
     ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Distinguished Article Award, 2011
     Sage Most Downloaded Article Award, 2010
     Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Fellowship, 2006-07 
     Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars Program University of Michigan,  
     Fellowship 2004-06 
     Kathryn DuPre Lumpkin Award, Best Dissertation in Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison
     2003-04 
     Villas Fellowship, University of Wisconsin -Madison, 2003 
     Phi Beta Kappa, University of California - San Diego, 1998 
     Magna cum Laude, University of California - San Diego, 1997

Grants

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), 2017-22 “California Center for Population Research Training Program.” Role: Principal Investigator;

National Institutes of Health R01, 2013-18, “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Demographic Research” (PI of UCLA Subaward, Yu Xie (PI))

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), 2011-16 “California Center for Population Research Training Program.” Role: Principal Investigator;

National Science Foundation, R03, 2008-11 “Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustment in the United States” (Co-PI, Ted Mouw (PI)) 

National Institutes of Health R21, 2007-11, “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Social and Behavioral Sciences” (Consultant, Yu Xie (PI)) 

Spencer Foundation, 2007-08, “The Effects of Elementary and Secondary School Characteristics on Educational and Occupational Attainment across the Life Course” (Co-PI, John Robert Warren (PI)) 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2005-06, “Nonstandard Work and Population Health” (Co-PI, Sarah Burgard (PI))

Selected Publications

Brand, Jennie E. 2015. “The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment.” Annual Review of Sociology 41:1.1-1.17.

Featured (selected): Wall Street Journal;

Brand, Jennie E. and Juli Simon Thomas. 2014. “Job Displacement Among Single Mothers: Effects on Children’s Outcomes in Young Adulthood.” American Journal of Sociology 119(4):955-1001.

Finalist for the International Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research, 2015;

Featured (selected): Los Angeles Times;

Brand, Jennie E. and Juli Simon Thomas. 2013. "Causal Effect Heterogeneity." Pp. 189-214 in Handbook of Causal Analysis for Social Research, Stephen L. Morgan ed., Springer Series.

Xie, Yu, Jennie E. Brand, and Ben Jann. 2012. "Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data." Sociological Methodology 42: 314-347.

Brand, Jennie E. and Dwight Davis. 2011. "The Impact of College Education on Fertility: Evidence for Heterogeneous Effects." Demography 48(3):863-887. 

Brand, Jennie E. 2010. "Civic Returns to Higher Education: A Note on Heterogeneous Effects." Social Forces 89(2):417-433. 

Bollen, Kenneth and Jennie E. Brand. 2010. “A General Panel Model with Random and Fixed Effects: A Structural Equations Approach.” Social Forces 89(1):1-34. 

Brand, Jennie E. and Yu Xie. 2010. “Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education.” American Sociological Review 75(2):273-302.

Revised excerpt for Grusky’s Social Stratification Reader, 4th Edition
ASA Sociology of Education James Coleman Award, 2012
ASA Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Distinguished Article Award, 2011
Sage Most Downloaded Article (of all articles published in ASR in 2009 and 2010)
ASA/ASR Featured Article, 2010
Translated into Spanish
Featured (selected): National Public Radio, Marketplace; New York Times; Wall Street
Journal; Chronicle of Higher Education; Insider Higher Ed;

 

Brand, Jennie E. and Sarah A. Burgard. 2008. “Job Displacement and Social Participation over the Life Course: Findings for a Cohort of Joiners.”Social Forces 87(1): 211-242. 

Featured (selected): Newsweek (cover story); New York Times Magazine; New York Times; Los Angeles Times; BusinessWeek; USA Today; Washington Post; Forbes; U.S. News & World Report; Eyewitness News; Yahoo! News (front page story);

Brand, Jennie E. and Yu Xie. 2007. “Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects with Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes.”Sociological Methodology 37: 393-434. 

Burgard, Sarah A., Jennie E. Brand, and James S. House. 2007. “Toward a Better Estimation of the Effect of Job Loss on Health.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 48:369-384. 

Featured (selected): New York Times; Newsweek; Washington Post; ABC News; Time; MSNBC; U.S. News and World Report; Yahoo! News (front page story);

Brand, Jennie E. 2006. “The Effects of Job Displacement on Job Quality: Findings from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 24: 275-298. 

Brand, Jennie E. and Charles N. Halaby. 2006. “Regression and Matching Estimates of the Effects of Elite College Attendance on Education and Career Achievement.” Social Science Research 35: 749-770. 

Featured (selected): New York Times; Wall Street Journal; Washington Post;

Research

I study social stratification and inequality and its implications for various outcomes that indicate life chances. My research agenda encompasses three main areas: (1) access to and the impact of higher education; (2) the socioeconomic and social-psychological consequences of disruptive events, such as job displacement; and (3) causal inference and the application and innovation of quantitative methods for panel data. See CCPR Working Papers for recent working manuscripts and Google Scholar and Pub Med for published works.

Graduate Students

Current Supervised Masters Students
     Caitlin Ahearn. Adolescent Occupational Direction: How Families and Schools Shape Aligned
     Adolescent Expectations.
     Pablo Geraldo
Completed Supervised Masters Students
     Ravaris Moore. 2013. Mechanisms that Link Violence Exposure to High School Academic
     Achievement.   
     Annie Lee. 2013. Testing the Double Jeopardy Hypothesis: Obesity and Hypertension in
     Aging Racial Minorities.
     Juli Simon-Thomas. 2011. The Importance of Peers and Role Models for Adolescent  
     Girls.    
     Matthew Curry. 2010. Are Ballers Scholars? Community College Student Athletes’
     Academic Performance. 
     Danielle Callendar. 2015. Effects of Elite College Completion on Job Quality.
     Amber Villalobos. 2015. Teacher Social Origins and Student Success: The Effect of
     Teacher Race and Socioeconomic Background on Teacher Perceptions of Students and
     Student Achievement
     Ryan Cho. 2016. Disaggregating Intergenerational Education Effects: Does Mother’s or
     Father’s Education Matter More for Children’s Attainment?

Current Supervised Ph.D. Candidates
     Annie Lee. Divergent Paths to Elite Degrees: An Examination of the Factors Impacting  
     Attrition among Minority Students Enrolled in Elite Colleges in the U.S.
     Ravaris Moore. The Effects of Student Exposure to Crime and Violence on Educational
     Attainment and Subject Proficiency among California Public School Students
     Amber Villalobos.Expectations and Attainment in the Era of High Expectations: The Effects of
     Adolescent Plans on Educational and Occupational Attainment
     John Sullivan. Structure and Segregation: The Importance of Age Structure in Households,
     Neighborhoods and the Population for Residential Patterns in the United States, 1940 – 2015

Completed Supervised Ph.D. Recipients
    Shabnam Shenasi. (co-chair) 2014. Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau. Ethnic Visibility,
    Context, and Xenophobia: A European Perspective.
    Yool Choi. 2014. Postdoctoral Fellowship, Hanyang University, South Korea. 
    Educational Expansion and Persistent Inequality: The Effects of Extracurricular Activities
    on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes.
    Juli Simon-Thomas. 2015. Bell Fellow, Harvard University. The Effects of
    Changes in Parental Jobs, Partnership Statuses, and Residence on Children’s
    Educational Attainment.
    Yelizavetta Kofman. 2015. Sociologist, Unitive Software. The Effects of
    Precarious Employment on the Transition to Adulthood and Political Participation.
    Matthew Curry. 2016. Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute for Applied Economic and Social  
    Research, University of Melbourne. The Returns to Higher Education in Economic Recessions.