Jennie E. Brand University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Jennie E. Brand is a Professor of Sociology and Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is the Director of the California Center for Population Research and Codirector of the Center for Social Statistics at UCLA. She is the Chair of the Methodology Section of the American Sociological Association, and a member of the Board of Overseers of the General Social Survey (GSS), and a member of the Technical Review Committee for the National Longitudinal Surveys Program at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Her research centers on inequality and its implications for various outcomes that indicate life chances, and a methodological focus on causal inference and machine learning. Current research projects include evaluation of heterogeneity in the effects of education on socioeconomic outcomes and the socioeconomic and social–psychological consequences of disruptive events.