Recent Invited Presentations for Professional Audiences
Brand, Jennie E. “Causal Inference and Machine Learning for Social Science.”
- DAGStat Conference, Lecture for “Statistics in the Social, Behavioral, and Educational Sciences,” Berlin, Germany, 2025
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, Annual Lecture on AI, Data Science, and Computational Methods, March 2024
Brand, Jennie E. Overcoming the Odds. The Benefits of Completing College for Unlikely Graduates.
- Jeffrey A. Grigg Memorial Lecture, School of Education and Hopkins Population Center, Johns Hopkins University, March 2024
- Author Meets Critic Session, American Sociological Association, August 2023
- Russell Sage Foundation Book Conference, October 2021
“Perspectives on Job Loss and Unemployment.”
- Institute for Employment Research, Research Institute of the Federal Employment Agency, Nuremberg, Germany, Keynote Address, January 2023
“The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment.”
- Division of Behavioral and Social Research at the National Institute on Aging, “Economic Vulnerability, Work across the Life Course, and Health Disparities” Workshop, September 2022
“Causal Inference and Social Mobility.”
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Population (CPOP) and Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT), Workshop on Strengthening the Evidence Base to Improve Economic and Social Mobility in the United States, February 2022
“Uncovering College Effect Heterogeneity using Machine-Learning.”
- Nam Lectureship Address, Center for Demography and Population Health, Florida State University, April 2023
- Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS), International Roundtable on Computational Social Science, Norrköping, Sweden, September 2022
- University of Washington, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, 2022
- GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany, Keynote Address, October 2021
- Pennsylvania State University, Population Research Institute, September 2021
- UCLA, Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS), June 2021
- Syracuse University, Cornell University, and SUNY-Albany, Center for Aging and Policy Studies, Spring 2021
- Northwestern University, Applied Quantitative Methods Workshop, May 2021
- Ohio State University, Institute for Population Research, March 2021
- University of California, Berkeley, Demography Department, March 2021
- University of Texas, Austin, Population Research Center, February 2021
- University of Chicago, Department of Comparative Human Development, October 2020
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Suessmilch Lecture, September 2020
- Duke University, Population Research Center Seminar, September 2020
- Harvard University, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy Program, November 2019
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Carolina Population Center, October 2019
- UCLA Society for Women in Statistics, Distinguished Women in Statistics Lecture, May 2019
“Unequal Families, Unequal Effects: How Parental Divorce Differentially Impacts Children’s Educational Attainment”
- University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Sociology Colloquium Seminar, May 2018
- Yale University, Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality, March 2018
- University of Michigan, Population Studies Center, November 2017
- Stanford University, Department of Sociology Inaugural Lecture, October 2017
- University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies Center, September 2017
- Princeton University, Office of Population Research, April 2017
- Harvard University, Center for Population and Development Studies, April 2017
- University of California, Irvine, Center for Demographic and Social Analysis, January 2017
“The Far-Reaching Impact of Job Loss and Unemployment.”
- UC Berkeley, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, March 2018
- Columbia University, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, March 2016
- University of Southern California, Population Research Center, October 2015
- UCLA, Human Development and Psychology Division, April 2015
- RAND Corporation, April 2015
- University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill, Carolina Population Center, March 2015
“Job Displacement Among Single Mothers: Effects on Children’s Outcomes in Young Adulthood.”
- Work and Family Researchers Network, Kanter Award Symposium, Washington D.C., June 2016
- UCLA, Department of Statistics, June 2014
- University of Wisconsin – Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty, June 2013
- UCLA, Advanced Quantitative Methods in Education Research, December 2012
- University of Arizona, Department of Sociology, November 2012
- UCLA, California Center for Population Research and Family Working Group, November 2012
Recent Presentations at Professional Meetings
Rouhani, Shiva, Xi Song, and Jennie E. Brand. “Trajectories of Downward Mobility in the U.S.”
- Population Association of America, May 2021
Brand, Jennie E. “COVID-19 and Job Loss” Session Discussant
- Population Association of America, May 2021
Brand, Jennie E. “Returns to Education in Young Adulthood” Session Discussant
- Population Association of America, May 2021
Ahearn, Caitlin, Xiang Zhou, and Jennie E. Brand. “How, and for Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?”
- American Sociological Association, San Francisco, California, August 2020
Brand, Jennie E., Jiahui Xu, Bernard Koch, and Pablo Geraldo. “Uncovering Sociological Effect Heterogeneity using Machine-Learning.”
- Population Association of America, Washington D.C., April 2020
- American Sociological Association Methodology Section Mid-Year Meeting, March 2020
“Uncovering Sociological Effect Heterogeneity using Machine-Learning.”
- International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), Princeton, New Jersey August 2019
- American Sociological Association, New York, New York, August 2019
“Causes and Consequences of Educational Inequality” Session Discussant
- American Sociological Association, New York, New York, August 2019
“Does College Prevent Single Parenthood? Uncovering Effect Heterogeneity using Propensity and Machine Learning Methods.”
- American Sociological Association, New York, New York, August 2019
- Population Association of America, Austin, Texas, April 2019
“College Premium Revisited: Heterogeneous Returns to College over the Life Course”
- International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28), Princeton, New Jersey August 2019
- Population Association of America, Denver, Colorado, April 2018
“Unequal Families, Unequal Effects: How Parental Divorce Differentially Impacts Children’s Educational Attainment”
- Population Association of America, Chicago, Illinois, April 2017
- Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility, Cologne, Germany, March 2017
- Heterogeneous Effects in Demographic Research, Princeton University, April 2016
- Heterogeneous Effects in Demographic Research, University of Michigan, March 2015
“The Social and Economic Context of Worker Displacement.”
- Population Association of America, Washington D.C., April 2016
“Psychosocial Skills as Mediating Effects of Parental Divorce on Children’s Education Attainment.”
- Population Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2014
“Interpreting Community College Effects in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Complex Counterfactuals.”
- American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado, August 2012
“Job Displacement Among Single Mothers: Effects on Children’s Outcomes in Young Adulthood.”
- American Sociological Association, Denver, Colorado, August 2012
- Population Association of America, Washington D.C., April 2011