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Type (Book Chapters, Journal Articles, Working Papers)AuthorKeyword

Journal Articles


AuthorsDateTitle
Angel Harris, Marta Tienda forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Minority Higher Education Pipeline: Consequences of Changes in College Admissions Policy in Texas"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Eric Grodsky, Catherine Riegle-Crumb forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Those Who Choose and Those Who Don't: Social Background and College Orientation"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Eric Furstenberg forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Academic Outcomes and Texas's Top 10% Law"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Jason Fletcher, Marta Tienda forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Race and Ethnic Differences in College Achievement: Does High School Attended Matter?"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Lisa Dickson forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Race and Gender Differences in College Major Choice"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Dylan Conger, Mark C. Long forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Why are Men Falling Behind? Explanations for the Gender Gap in College Outcomes"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Donnell Butler forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Ethnoracial Segregation and College Choice: Revisiting the Perpetuation of Segregation Hypothesis"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Mark C. Long, Victor Saenz, Marta Tienda forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Policy Transparency and College Enrollment: Did the Texas Top 10% Law Broaden Access to the Public Flagships?"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Milagros Nores forthcoming Vol. 627 (Jan 2010) "Differences in College Major Choice by Citizenship Status"
ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Jason Fletcher, Marta Tienda forthcoming "High School Classmates and College Success"
Sociology of Education.
Sigal Alon, Thurston Domina, Marta Tienda forthcoming "Stymied Mobility or Temporary Lull? Intergenerational Discontinuities in Hispanic College Destinations"
Social Forces.
Mark C. Long, Marta Tienda forthcoming "Changes in Texas Universities' Applicant Pools after the Hopwood Decision"
Social Science Research.
Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda forthcoming "The Impact of the Texas Top 10% Law on Flagship Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Approach"
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Marta Tienda, Sigal Alon, Sunny X. Niu 2009 "Affirmative Action and the Texas Top 10% Percent Admission Law: Balancing Equity and Access to Higher Education"
Societes Contemporaines.
Matthew Desmond, Ruth N. Lopez-Turley 2009 "The Role of Familism in Explaining the Hispanic-White College Application Gap"
Social Problems. 56(2): 331-334.
Rebecca M. Callahan 2008 "Latino Language-Minority College Going: Adolescent Boys' Language Use and Girls' Social Integration"
Bilingual Research Journal. 31(1/2): 175-200.
Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda 2008 "Choosing Colleges: Identifying and Modeling Choice Sets"
Social Science Research. 37(2): 416-433.
Sunny X. Niu, Teresa A. Sullivan, Marta Tienda 2008 "Minority Talent Loss and the Texas Top 10 Percent Law"
Social Science Quarterly. 89(4): 831-845.
Mark C. Long, Marta Tienda 2008 "Winners and Losers: Changes in Texas University Admissions post-Hopwood"
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 30(3): 255-280.
Kim Lloyd, Kevin T. Leicht, Teresa A. Sullivan 2008 "Minority College Aspirations, Expectations, and Applications under the Texas Top 10% Law"
Social Forces. 86(3): 1105-1137.
Thurston Domina 2007 "Higher Education Policy as Secondary School Reform: Texas Public High Schools after "Hopwood""
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 29(3): 200-217.
Sigal Alon, Marta Tienda 2007 "Diversity, Opportunity and the Shifting Meritocracy in Higher Education"
American Sociological Review. 72(4): 487-511.
Michelle Bellessa Frost 2007 "Texas Students' College Expectations: Does High School Racial Composition Matter?"
Sociology of Education. 80(1): 43-66.
Marta Tienda 2007 "Hispanics at the Age Crossroads: Opportunities and Risks"
Focus. 25(1): 27-32.
Meredith Kleykamp 2006 "College, Jobs, or the Military? Enlistment During a Time of War"
Social Science Quarterly. 87(2): 272-290.
Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda, Kalena Cortes 2006 "College selectivity and the Texas top 10% Law: How Constrained are the Options?"
Economics of Education Review. 25(3): 259-272.
Marta Tienda, Sunny X. Niu 2006 "Capitalizing on Segregation, Pretending Neutrality: College Admissions and the Texas Top 10% Law"
American Law and Economics Review. 8(2): 312-346.
Marta Tienda, Sunny X. Niu 2006 "Flagships, Feeders, and the Texas Top 10% Law: A Test of the "Brain Drain" Hypothesis"
Journal of Higher Education. 77(4): 712-739.
Sigal Alon, Marta Tienda 2005 "Assessing the 'Mismatch' Hypothesis: Differntials in College Graduation Rates by Institutional Selectivity"
Sociology of Education. 78(4): 294-315.


Book Chapters


AuthorsDateTitle
Marta Tienda Forthcoming "Onda Nueva: Hispanic Demographic Dividend or Bulge at the Bottom?"
Politics of Inclusion: Higher Education at a Crossroads. Eds. Boyer and Ort. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
Teresa A. Sullivan Forthcoming "College Access, Geography, and Diversity"
The Future of Diversity. Eds. Little and Mohanty. New York and London: Palgrave.
Marta Tienda, Teresa A. Sullivan 2009 "The Promise and Peril of The Texas Uniform Admission Law"
The Next Tweny Five Years? Affirmative Action and Higher Education in the United States and South Africa. Eds. Hall, Krislov and Featherman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Marta Tienda, Sigal Alon 2007 "Diversity and the Demographic Dividend"
The Price We Pay: Economic and Social Consequences of Inadequate Education. Eds. Belfield and Levin. Washington D.C.: Brookings. 48-73.
Marta Tienda 2006 "Harnessing Diversity in Higher Education: Lessons From Texas"
Ford Policy Forum, 2006: Exploring the Economics of Higher Education. Eds. Devlin. Washington D.C.: NACUBO and the Forum for the Future of Higher Education. 7-14.
Kim Lloyd, Marta Tienda, Anna Zajacova 2001 "Trends in Educational Achievement of Minority Students Since Brown v. Board of Education"
Achieving High Eduacational Standards for All: Confrence Summary. Eds. Ready, Edley and Snow. Washington DC: National Academy Press. 149-182.
Marta Tienda 2001 "College Admission Policies and the Educational Pipeline: Implications for Medical and Health Professions"
The Right Thing to Do, the Smart thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in Health Professions. Eds. Smedley, Stith, Colburn and Evans: National Academy Press for the Institute of Medicine. 117-142.


Working Papers


AuthorsDateTitle
Jason M. Fletcher, Marta Tienda November 2009 "High School Hangover and Minority College Achievement"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington D.C.)
Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda November 2009 "Testing, Ranking and College Performance: Does High School Matter?"
THEOP Working Paper
Rodney J. Andrews June 2009 "High School Quality, Race, and College Achievement"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at THEOP Research Conference, Princeton, NJ; August 2008)
Marjorie Wallace May 2009 "Quality and Inequality on the Pathway to Teaching Mathematics and Science in Texas"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at THEOP Research Conference, Princeton, NJ; August 2008)
Jayanti Owens August 2008 "Foreign Students at Four Texas Universities: How Selective Are They?"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at THEOP Research Conference, Princeton, NJ; August 2008)
Rachelle L. Brooks, Michelle Van Noy August 2008 "Psychosocial Determinants and Consequences of College Attendance"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at THEOP Research Conference, Princeton, NJ; August 2008)
Steven Alvarado, Ruth N. Lopez-Turley August 2008 "College-Bound Friends: A Study of Racial and Ethnic Differences"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at THEOP Research Conference, Princeton, NJ; August 2008)
Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda June 2008 "Minority Student Academic Performance under the Uniform Admission Law: Evidence from the University of Texas at Austin"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at AERA Annual Meeting, New York; April 2008)
Dawn Koffman, Marta Tienda April 2008 "Missing in Application: The Texas Top 10% Law and Campus Socioeconomic Diversity"
THEOP Working Paper (Presented at AERA Annual Meeting, New York; April 2008)
Angel Harris, Marta Tienda August 2008 "Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top Ten Percent Law"
THEOP Working Paper
Thurston Domina, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Marta Tienda September 2008 "Students Left Behind: Validating 10th and 12th Grade Persistence Rates in Texas Public High Schools"
THEOP Working Paper
Kalena Cortes September 2008 "College Quality and the Texas Top 10% Plan: Implications for Minority Students"
THEOP Working Paper
Ruth N. Lopez-Turley, Matthew Desmond August 2008 "Unanticipated Educational Consequences of a Positive Parent-Child Relationship"
THEOP Working Paper
Mariana Alfonso, Juan Carlos Calcagno October 2007 "Minority Enrollments at Public Universities of Diverse Selectivities Levels under Different Admission Regimes: The Case of Texas"
Working Paper 617 (Inter-American Development Bank)
Catherine Riegle-Crumb 2007 "More Girls Go to College: Academic and Social Factors Behind the Female Postsecondary Advantage"
THEOP Working Paper
Frances R. Speilhagen 2007 "Intersecting Inequities: Examining the Impact of Early High School Experiences on College Admissions through the Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project"
THEOP Working Paper
Julie Paasche, Robert Santos May 2006 "Investigating Nonresponse Bias: An Analysis of Early, Mid, and Late Responders in a Panel Study of Texas High School Students"
THEOP Working Paper
Michelle Bellessa Frost February 2006 "Replacement or Reinforcement? The Role of Parental Educational Attributes on High School Student Contact with Counselors"
THEOP Working Paper
Jason Fletcher December 2006 "Social Interactions in College Choice: The Interplay of Information, Preferences, Social Norms, and Individual Characteristics in Predicting College Choice"
THEOP Working Paper
Michelle Bellessa Frost July 2005 "Texas Students' Knowledge of University Admissions Policies and Standards: Do High School Counselors Matter?"
THEOP Working Paper
Marta Tienda, Kalena Cortes, Sunny X. Niu October 2003 "College Attendance and the Texas Top 10 Percent Law: Permanent Contagion or Transitory Promise?"
THEOP Working Paper
Marta Tienda, Kevin T. Leicht, Teresa A. Sullivan, Michael Maltese, Kim Lloyd January 2003 "Closing the Gap? Admissions and Enrollments at the Texas Public Flagships Before and After Affirmative Action"
THEOP Working Paper


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