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Jennie E. Brand is an American sociologist and social statistician. She studies stratification, social inequality, education, social demography, disruptive events, and quantitative methods, including causal inference. Brand is currently Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she directs the California Center for Population Research and co-directs the Center for Social Statistics.[2]
Jennie E. Brand | |
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| Born | 1976 (age 47–48)[citation needed] |
| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of California, San Diego |
| Known for | Social stratification Sociology of education Quantitative methodology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology, statistics |
| Institutions | University of California, Los Angeles University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Michigan |
| Thesis | Enduring effects of job displacement on career outcomes (2004) |
| Doctoral advisors | Charles N. Halaby[1][2] Robert M. Hauser Lincoln Quillian Michael Handel Karen Holden |
Education and career edit
Brand received a B.A. in sociology and philosophy from the University of California, San Diego in 1997 and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2004.[2]
Brand was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan from 2004 to 2006 and Carolina Population Center Fellow and Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2006 to 2007.[2]
Brand moved to UCLA in 2007 as Assistant Professor of Sociology. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and Professor in 2016.[2]
Brand was elected to the Sociological Research Association in 2019. She was the first woman to receive the Leo A. Goodman Award for "an outstanding researcher within 10 years of their Ph.D." from the American Sociological Association (ASA).[4] Until 2021, she chaired the Methodology Section of the ASA,[5] currently chairs the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section of the ASA,[6] and sits on the boards of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, the Bureau of Labor Statistics National Longitudinal Surveys Program Technical Review Committee, and the General Social Survey.[7]
Research edit
Brand has made notable empirical contributions in the subfields of social stratification and the sociology of education. In an influential 2010 study of returns to higher education, Brand and Yu Xie challenge the conventional economistic view that comparative advantage would make the individuals with the most to gain from a college degree more likely to seek one out. They argue instead that the individuals least likely to attend college benefit the most from it.[8]
Brand has also made significant methodological contributions to quantitative sociology. She has published extensively on treatment effect heterogeneity and propensity score matching.[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] She serves on the editorial board of Sociological Methods & Research.[16]
Publications edit
Brand's most cited publications are:[17]
- 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.
- Burgard, Sarah A., Jennie E. Brand, and James S. House. 2009. “Perceived Job Insecurity and Worker Health in the United States.” Social Science & Medicine 69(5):777-785.
- Brand, Jennie E. 2015. “The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment.” Annual Review of Sociology 41:359-375.
- 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(4):369-384.
References edit
- ^ Brand, Jennie E. (2004). Enduring effects of job displacement on career outcomes.
- ^ a b c d e Brand, Jennie E. (10 September 2019). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). UCLA Department of Sociology. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
- ^ Brand, Jennie E. "About". Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "Past Section on Methodology Award Recipients". American Sociological Association. October 3, 2011.
- ^ "Methodology". American Sociological Association.
- ^ "IPM". American Sociological Association.
- ^ "About the GSS | NORC". gss.norc.org.
- ^ a b Brand, Jennie E.; Xie, Yu (2010). "Who Benefits Most from College?: Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education". American Sociological Review. 75 (2): 273–302. doi:10.1177/0003122410363567. PMC 2865163. PMID 20454549.
- ^ Xie, Yu; Brand, Jennie E.; Jann, Ben (2012). "Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Observational Data" (PDF). Sociological Methodology. 42 (1): 314–347. doi:10.1177/0081175012452652. PMC 3591476. PMID 23482633. S2CID 16266885.
- ^ Brand, Jennie E.; Halaby, Charles N. (2006). "Regression and matching estimates of the effects of elite college attendance on educational and career achievement". Social Science Research. 35 (3): 749–770. doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.06.006.
- ^ Brand, Jennie; Pfeffer, Fabian; Goldrick-Rab, Sara (2014). "The Community College Effect Revisited: The Importance of Attending to Heterogeneity and Complex Counterfactuals". Sociological Science. 1: 448–465. doi:10.15195/v1.a25. PMC 4375965. PMID 25825705.
- ^ Brand, J. E. (2010). "Civic Returns to Higher Education: A Note on Heterogeneous Effects". Social Forces. 89 (2): 417–433. doi:10.1353/sof.2010.0095. PMC 3249762. PMID 22223924.
- ^ Brand, Jennie E.; Davis, Dwight (2011). "The Impact of College Education on Fertility: Evidence for Heterogeneous Effects". Demography. 48 (3): 863–887. doi:10.1007/s13524-011-0034-3. PMC 3449224. PMID 21735305.
- ^ Brand, Jennie E.; Moore, Ravaris; Song, Xi; Xie, Yu (2019). "Parental divorce is not uniformly disruptive to children's educational attainment". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (15): 7266–7271. Bibcode:2019PNAS..116.7266B. doi:10.1073/pnas.1813049116. PMC 6462058. PMID 30914460.
- ^ Brand, Jennie E.; Xie, Yu (2016). "Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects with Time-Varying Treatments and Time-Varying Outcomes". Sociological Methodology. 37 (1): 393–434. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9531.2007.00185.x. S2CID 51945159.
- ^ "Editorial Board". Sociological Methods & Research. SAGE Journals. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
- ^ "User profile for JE Brand". Google Scholar. Retrieved December 27, 2019.