LAB Publications

Torche, Florencia, Jason Fletcher, and Jennie E. Brand. 2024. “Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(1): 1-30.

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. 2023. “Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning.” Annual Review of Sociology 48.

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.

Ahearn, Caitlin, Xiang Zhou, and Jennie E. Brand. 2022. “How, and for Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?” Research in Higher Education.

Aquino, Taylor, Jennie E. Brand, and Florencia Torche. 2022. "Unequal effects of disruptive events." Sociology Compass 16, no. 4.

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.

Cheng, Siwei, Jennie E. Brand, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie, and Michael Hout. 2021. “Heterogeneous Returns to College over the Life Cycle.” Science Advances.

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.

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. 

Geraldo Bastias, Pablo and Jennie E. Brand. 2020. “Causal Inference.” Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. Ed. Lynette Spillman. New York: Oxford University Press.

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. 

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. 

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.

Ahearn, Caitlin and Jennie E. Brand. 2019. “Predicting Layoff Among Fragile Families.” Socius 5: 1-8.