Princeton University

Marta Tienda’s research interests include ethnic and racial stratification, poverty and social policy, and the sociology of employment and labor markets. Currently she is conducting a longitudinal evaluation of the Texas top 10% law, which grants all seniors who graduate in the top decile of their class automatic admission to any Texas public university. She also chairs a National Academy of Sciences Panel on the U.S. Hispanic Population. Currently Tienda is trustee of Brown University, the Jacobs Foundation of Switzerland, and a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Her books and monographs include, Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms (Cambridge, in press, with Michael Rutter); Youth in Cities (Cambridge, 2002, with William J. Wilson); The Color of Opportunity: Families, Welfare and Work in the Inner City (Chicago, 2001, with Haya Stier); Divided Opportunities: Minorities, Poverty, and Social Policy (Plenum, 1988, with Gary D. Sandefur); The Hispanic Population of the United States (Russell Sage, 1987, with Frank D. Bean); and Hispanics in the U.S. Economy (Academic, 1985, with George J. Borjas). Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin.

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