Peter brandon Background info:
Peter Brandon, Professor of Demography and Sociology and Australian Professorial Fellow at Australian National University has been affiliated with the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University since 2001.
Dr. Brandon received his Ph.D. in Public Policy Studies from the University of Chicago in 1992. He began his research career at the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 1996, he left the IRP for the University of Massachusetts, Amherst to begin his teaching career while continuing his research first as an Assistant and then Associate Professor.
Research interests:
Inequality and poverty; child and family well-being; social program evaluation; exchange theory and kin-provided assistance over the life course; work and family; lone parent households; immigration and child outcomes; demography of children with disabilities.
Current research:
Peter Brandon is currently working on research in the fields of family change and diversity and child disability with support from the Australian Research Council and the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.
Dr. Brandon, in collaboration with Dennis Hogan, is examining several aspects of raising children with disabilities, including decisions about child care arrangements, entry into the labor force, and welfare participation.
Selected publications:
Brandon, Peter D. 2005. “Welfare Use among Children Living with Grandparents.” Forthcoming, Population Research and Policy Review.
Brandon, Peter D. 2005. Forthcoming “Bargaining Theory” In J. Beckert and M. Zafirovski. Eds. Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology . London: Routledge Publishers.
Brandon, Peter D., and Dennis P. Hogan. 2004. “ Impediments to Mothers Leaving Welfare: The Role of Maternal and Child Disability .” Vol. 23, No, 4: 419-436, August Population Research and Policy Review.
Brandon, Peter D. 2004. “The Child Care Arrangements of Children in Immigrant Families in the United States.” Vol. 42, No. 1, 1-18. March, International Migration.