Jennie E. Brand
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Office: 228a HAINES HALL
Phone: 310-206-1049
Fax:
310-206-9838
E-mail:
brand@soc.ucla.edu
Mailing Address:
264 Haines Hall - Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1551
Subfield
Stratification/Mobility; Education; Jobs/Careers; Quantitative Methodology;
Research Interests
I study social inequality and its implications for various outcomes that indicate life chances. My research focuses on the relationship between social and human capital, educational attainment, jobs and careers, and socioeconomic attainment and well-being over the life course. This substantive focus accompanies a methodological focus on causal inference and the application and innovation of quantitative methods for panel data. Current research projects include heterogeneous effects of college on socioeconomic outcomes, long-term social consequences of job displacement, the population composition of jobless youth, and methods for estimating causal effects. See CCPR Working Papers for recent manuscripts.
Selected Publications
Brand, Jennie E. and Yu Xie. [forthcoming, 2010]. “Who Benefits Most from College? Evidence for Negative Selection in Heterogeneous Economic Returns to Higher Education.” American Sociological Review.
Bollen, Kenneth and Jennie E. Brand. [forthcoming, 2010]. “A General Panel Model with Random and Fixed Effects: A Structural Equations Approach” Social Forces.
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.
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.
Brand, Jennie E., John Robert Warren, Pascale Carayon, and Peter Hoonakker. 2007. “Do Job Characteristics Mediate the Relationship between SES and Health? Evidence from Sibling Models.” Social Science Research 36: 222-253.
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.
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.
Grants
National Science Foundation, R03, 2008-10 “Immigration and the Dynamics of Labor Market Adjustment in the United States” (Co-PI)
National Institutes of Health R21, 2007-11, “Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Social and Behavioral Sciences” (Consultant)
Spencer Foundation, 2007-08, “The Effects of Elementary and Secondary School Characteristics on Educational and Occupational Attainment across the Life Course” (Co-PI)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2005-06, “Nonstandard Work and Population Health” (Co-PI)
Awards
Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2006-07
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellowship, Health & Society Scholars Program, 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 1998
Magna cum Laude, University of California - San Diego 1997
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