Recent Publications or forthcoming papers

Brand, Jennie E. 2023. Overcoming the Odds. The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Brand, Jennie E., Xiang Zhou, and Yu Xie. [forthcoming]. “Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning.” Annual Review of Sociology 48. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/627tz/

Lundberg, Ian, Jennie E. Brand, and Nanum Jeon. 2022. “Researcher Reasoning Meets Computational Capacity: Machine Learning for Social Science.” Social Science Research [50th Anniversary Series] 108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102807

Ahearn, Caitlin, Xiang Zhou, and Jennie E. Brand. 2022. “How, and for Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?” Research in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-022-09717-4

Aquino, Taylor, Jennie E. Brand, and Florencia Torche. 2022. "Unequal effects of disruptive events." Sociology Compass 16, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12972

Liao, Kristin Tianqi, and Andrés Villarreal. 2002. "Unequal effects of the COVID-19 epidemic on employment: Differences by immigrant status and race/ethnicity." PLoS One 17, no. 11 (2022): e0277005. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277005

Cheng, Siwei, Jennie E. Brand, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie, and Michael Hout [equal contributions of authors]. 2021. “Heterogeneous Returns to College over the Life Cycle.” Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg7641

Brand, Jennie E., Jiahui Xu, Bernard Koch, and Pablo Geraldo. 2021. “Uncovering Sociological Effect Heterogeneity using Tree-Based Machine Learning.” Sociological Methodology 51(2):189-223. https://doi.org/10.1177/0081175021993503

Brand, Jennie E. 2020. “Sensitivity Analysis.” Research Methods in the Social Sciences Foundation. Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, and Richard A. Williams. eds. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. http://doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036932529

Geraldo Bastias, Pablo and Jennie E. Brand. 2020. “Causal Inference.” Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Lynette Spillman. New York: Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199756384-0240

Brand, Jennie E., Jiahui Xu, and Bernard Koch. 2020. “Machine Learning.” Research Methods in the Social Sciences Foundation. Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont, Alexandru Cernat, Joseph W. Sakshaug, and Richard A. Williams. eds. Thousand Oaks: SAGE. http://doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036883644

Brand, Jennie E., Ravaris Moore, Xi Song, and Yu Xie. 2019. “Parental Divorce is Not Uniformly Disruptive to Children’s Educational Attainment.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(15):7266-7271. http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1813049116

Brand, Jennie E., Ravaris Moore, Xi Song, and Yu Xie. 2019. “Why Does Parental Divorce Lower Children’s Educational Attainment? A Causal Mediation Analysis.” Sociological Science 6:264-292. http://doi.org/10.15195/v6.a11

Ahearn, Caitlin and Jennie E. Brand. 2019. “Predicting Layoff Among Fragile Families.” Socius 5: 1-8. http://doi.org/10.1177%2F2378023118809757