WORKING PAPERS
2009
"Stymied Mobility or Temporary Lull? Intergenerational
Discontinuities in Hispanic College Destinations." 
Sigal Alon and Marta Tienda
Presented at PAA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 2006
Last updated: February 2009
"Minority
Higher Education Pipeline: Consequences of Changes in College
Admissions Policy in Texas" 
Angel Harris and Marta Tienda
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: February 2009
"Those Who Choose
and Those Who Don't: Social Background and College Orientation" 
Eric Grodsky and Catherine Riegle-Crumb
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: February 2009
"Policy
Transparency and College Enrollment: Did the Texas Top 10% Law
Broaden Access to the Public Flagships?"

Mark C. Long, Victor Saenz, and Marta Tienda
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: February 2009
"Ethnoracial
Segregation and College Choice: Revisiting the Perpetuation of
Segregation Hypothesis"
Donnell Butler
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: February 2009
"Race and Ethnic Differences in College Achievement: Does High
School Attended Matter?" 
Jason
Fletcher and Marta Tienda
Manuscript
prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last
updated: February 2009
"Race and Gender
Differences in College Major Choice" 
Lisa Dickson
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: February 2009
"Ethnicity,
Citizenship, and In-State Residence: Analyses of Postsecondary
Admission and Choices of Major after In-State Tuition for
Undocumented"

Milagros Nores
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: January 2009
"Academic Outcomes
and Texas's Top 10% Law"

Eric Furstenberg
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: January 2009
"Why are Men Falling Behind? Explanations for the Gender Gap in
College Outcomes" 
Dylan Conger and Mark C. Long
Manuscript prepared for ANNALS special issue
Last updated: February 2009
2008
"High School Peer Networks and College Success: Lessons from
Texas" 
Jason Fletcher and Marta Tienda
Last updated: December 2008
"College Quality and the Texas Top 10% Plan: Implications for
Minority Students"

Kalena E.
Cortes
Last
updated: September 2008
"Students Left
Behind: Validating 10th and 12th Grade Persistence Rates in
Texas Public High Schools" 
Thurston Domina, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, and Marta Tienda
Presented at THEOP Research Conference in Princeton, NJ, August
2008
Last updated: September 2008
"Hispanics in Higher Education and the
Texas Top Ten Percent Law" 
Angel Harris
and Marta Tienda
Presented at
THEOP Research Conference in Princeton, NJ, August 2008
Last
updated: August 2008
"Quality and
Inequality on the Pathway to Teaching Mathematics and Science in
Texas"

Marcy Wallace
Presented at THEOP Research Conference in Princeton, NJ, August
2008
Last updated: August 2008
"Psychosocial Determinants and
Consequences of College Attendance"

Rachelle L. Brooks and Michelle Van Noy
Presented at THEOP Research
Conference in Princeton, NJ, August 2008
Last updated: August 2008
"College-Bound
Friends: A Study of Racial and Ethnic Differences" 
Steven Alvarado and Ruth N. Lopez-Turley
Presented at THEOP Research Conference in Princeton, NJ, August
2008
Last updated: August 2008
"High School Quality, Race, and College Achievement" 
Rodney Andrews
Presented at THEOP Research Conference in Princeton, NJ, August
2008
Last updated: August 2008
"Foreign Students at Four Texas Universities: How Selective are
They?"

Jayanti Owens
Presented at THEOP Research Conference in Princeton, NJ, August
2008
Last updated: August 2008
"Unanticipated Educational Consequences of a Positive
Parent-Child Relationship"

Ruth N. Lopez Turley and Matthew Desmond
Last updated: August 2008
Minority Student Academic Performance under
the Uniform Admission Law: Evidence from the University of Texas
at Austin" 
Sunny X. Niu
and Marta Tienda
Presented at
AERA Annual Meeting in New York, April 2008
Last updated: June 2008
"Changes in Texas Universities' Applicant Pools after the
Hopwood Decision" 
Mark C. Long
and Marta Tienda
Presented at
AERA Annual Meeting in New York, April 2008
Last
updated: April 2008
"Missing in Application: The Texas Top 10% Law and Campus
Socioeconomic Diversity" 
Dawn Koffman
and Marta Tienda
Presented at
AERA Annual Meeting in New York, April 2008
Last
updated: April 2008
2007
"Minority Enrollments at
Public Universities of Diverse Selectivity Levels under
Different Admission Regimes: The Case of Texas "

Mariana Alfonso and Juan Carlos Calcagno
October 2007
"College Choice and the Texas Top
10% Law: A Regression Discontinuity Approach."

Sunny Xinchun Niu and Marta Tienda
Presented at PAA Annual Meeting, New York, April 2007
April 2007
"More Girls Go to College: Academic
and Social Factors Behind the Female Postsecondary Advantage"

Catherine Riegle-Crumb
"Intersecting Inequities: Examining
the Impact of Early High School Experiences on College Admissions through the
Texas Higher Education Opportunity Project";

Frances R. Spielhagen
2007
2006
"Peer Influences on
College Choices: New Evidence from Texas."

Jason Fletcher
December 2006
"Investigating
Nonresponse Bias: An Analysis of Early, Mid and Late Responders"

Julie Paasche and Robert Santos
May 2006
"Replacement or
Reinforcement? The Role of Parental Educational Attributes on High
School Student Contact with Counselors"

Michelle Bellessa Frost
February 2006
2003-2005
"Texas Students’
Knowledge of University Admissions Policies and Standards: Do High
School Counselors Matter?"

Michelle Bellessa Frost
July 2005
"College Attendance
and the Texas Top 10 Percent Law: Permanent Contagion or
Transitory Promise?"

Marta Tienda, Kalena Cortes, and Sunny Niu
October 2003
"Closing the Gap?:
Admissions and Enrollments at the Texas Public Flagships Before and
After Affirmative Action"

Marta Tienda, Kevin T. Leicht, Teresa Sullivan, Michael Maltese,
and Kim Lloyd
January 2003
MISCELLANEOUS
"Amicus Brief of Social Scientists in Support of the University of
Michigan"

Glenn Loury, Nathan Glazer, John Kain, Thomas Kane, Douglas
Massey, Marta Tienda, and Brian
Bucks
"Longhorn and Century Scholars Program"

Marta Tienda and Kim Lloyd
"Basing College Admission on High School Class Rank"

Thomas J. Kane
"Minority Student Pipelines Before and After the Challenges to
Affirmative Action"

Kevin T. Leicht and Teresa A. Sullivan
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