Lab Publications

Trapped in Declining Occupations: Barriers to Worker Mobility in a Changing Economy

Xi Song, Jennie E. Brand, Sukie Xiuqi Yang, Michael Lachanski

Science Advances, 12(10): eadx3471.

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March 6, 2026

AI-Accelerated Occupational Decline and the Mobility Trap

Xi Song, Jennie E. Brand, Sukie Yang, Michael Lachanski

American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 116: 246–250.

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May 2026

Causal Machine Learning: A Deductive-Inductive Framework for Sociological Research

Nanum Jeon, Jennie E. Brand

Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie & Sozialpsychologie (Cologne Journal of Sociology & Social Psychology), 78(3): 1089–1123. (Special Issue on Explanation and Causality in Sociology)

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2026

Gradationalism Revisited: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Along Axes of Occupational Characteristics

Hunter York, Xi Song, Yu Xie

American Journal of Sociology, 130(4): 976–1027.

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January 2025

Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status

Xi Song, Yu Xie

Sociological Methods & Research, 54(2): 355–396.

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May 2025

Disparate Effects of Disruptive Events on Children

Florencia Torche, Jason Fletcher, Jennie E. Brand

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 10(1), 1–30.

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January 2024

Recent Developments in Causal Inference and Machine Learning

Jennie E. Brand, Xiang Zhou, Yu Xie

Annual Review of Sociology, 49, 81–110.

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April 26, 2023