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PhD Sociology University of Texas at Austin
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According to Wikipedia, Marta Tienda is an American sociologist. From 1997 to 2001, she served as the director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. She is the co-author and co-editor of many books, including The Hispanic Population of The United States .

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Optimism and achievement: the educational performance of immigrant youth (1995) (1354)
The Hispanic Population of the United States. (1990) (1217)
Educational Aspirations of Minority Youth (1998) (934)
Diversity, Opportunity, and the Shifting Meritocracy in Higher Education (2007) (340)
Hispanics and the Future of America (2006) (321)
Determinants of Extended Household Structure: Cultural Pattern or Economic Need? (1982) (317)
Assessing the “Mismatch” Hypothesis: Differences in College Graduation Rates by Institutional Selectivity (2005) (311)
Minority Concentration and Earnings Inequality: Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians Compared (1987) (268)
The Economic Consequences of Immigration (1987) (242)
Immigrants’ Pathways to Business Ownership: A Comparative Ethnic Perspective 1 (2000) (213)
Headship and Household Composition Among Blacks, Hispanics, and Other Whites (1982) (171)
The Educational and Personal Consequences of Adolescent Employment (1998) (162)
Pathways to retirement: patterns of labor force participation and labor market exit among the pre-retirement population by race, Hispanic origin, and sex. (2000) (155)
Immigrant Children: Introducing the Issue (2011) (145)
GENDER, MIGRATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE (1991) (137)
The Employment and Wages of Legalized Immigrants 1 (1993) (131)
The structuring of Hispanic ethnicity: Historical and contemporary perspectives* (1985) (130)
Winners and Losers: Changes in Texas University Admissions Post-Hopwood (2008) (110)
Ethnic foundations of economic transactions: Mexican and Korean immigrant entrepreneurs in Chicago (2003) (110)
What's Behind Racial and Ethnic Fertility Differentials? (1996) (106)
Race and Ethnic Differences in College Achievement: Does High School Attended Matter? (2010) (105)
Industrial Restructuring, Gender Segregation, and Sex Differences in Earnings (1987) (104)
Puerto Ricans and the Underclass Debate (1989) (103)
Family, Work and Women: The Labor Supply of Hispanic Immigrant Wives 1 (1992) (98)
Diversity ≠ Inclusion (2013) (97)
Immigration and Public Assistance Participation: Dispelling the Myth of Dependency. IRP Discussion Papers. DP #777-85. (1985) (97)
Migration and the Earnings of Hispanic Men. (1992) (91)
Race and Unemployment: Labor Market Experiences of Black and White Men, 1968-1988 (1995) (86)
Familism and Structural Assimilation of Mexican Immigrants in the United States 1 (1980) (85)
Ethnicity and causal mechanisms (2005) (85)
Underclass Neighborhoods in Temporal and Ecological Perspective (1997) (80)
Choosing colleges: Identifying and modeling choice sets (2008) (78)
Capitalizing on Segregation, Pretending Neutrality: College Admissions and the Texas Top 10% Law (2006) (78)
College selectivity and the Texas top 10% law (2006) (77)
Redrawing Spatial Color Lines: Hispanic Metropolitan Dispersal, Segregation and Economic Opportunity (2006) (76)
Closing the Gap?: Admissions & Enrollments at the Texas Public Flagships Before and After Affirmative Action (2003) (76)
Racial and Ethnic Variation in Academic Performance (1996) (73)
Hispanics in Metropolitan America: New Realities and Old Debates (2014) (73)
Age at Immigration and the Adult Attainments of Child Migrants to the United States (2012) (71)
Nonmetropolitan minority families in the United States: trends in racial and ethnic economic stratification 1959-1986. (1989) (69)
Africa on the move : African migration and urbanisation in comparative perspective (2006) (67)
Policy Transparency and College Enrollment: Did the Texas Top Ten Percent Law Broaden Access to the Public Flagships? (2010) (65)
Language education and the socioeconomic achievement of Hispanic origin men. (1981) (64)
English Proficiency, Education, and the Conditional Economic Assimilation of Hispanic and Asian Origin Men☆ (1997) (64)
A Tale of Two Counties: Natives’ Opinions toward Immigration in North Carolina 1 (2010) (61)
Immigrants' income packaging and invisible labor force activity (2000) (61)
Are men marginal to the family? Insights from Chicago's inner city. (1993) (58)
Household structure and labor force participation of black, hispanic, and white mothers (1985) (58)
Marriage-Market Constraints and Mate-Selection Behavior: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Intermarriage. (2017) (56)
Divided Opportunities: Minorities, Poverty and Social Policy (1988) (55)
Generating Labor Market Inequality: Employment Opportunities and the Accumulation of Disadvantage (1996) (54)
The Effects of Early Work Experience on Young Women's Labor Force Attachment (2001) (52)
Stymied Mobility or Temporary Lull?: The Puzzle of Lagging Hispanic College Degree Attainment (2010) (49)
High School Classmates and College Success (2009) (49)
The Impact of the Texas Top 10 Percent Law on College Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Approach. (2010) (46)
Minority Student Academic Performance Under the Uniform Admission Law: Evidence From The University of Texas at Austin (2010) (45)
Race and Ethnic Variation in the Schooling Consequences of Female Adolescent Sexual Activity. (1992) (45)
Schooling, Color, and the Labor Force Activity of Women (1992) (43)
High School Economic Composition and College Persistence (2013) (43)
Ethnic and Racial Patterns of Educational Attainment and School Enrollment (1988) (43)
Latin American Immigration to the United States (2013) (42)
Hispanicity and Educational Inequality: Risks, Opportunities and the Nation's Future. Tomas Rivera Lecture Series. (2009) (41)
Demography and the social contract (2002) (40)
Women's roles and family formation in Venezuela: new forms of consensual unions? (1997) (40)
The new immigration: implications for poverty and public assistance utilization. (1989) (40)
Minority Higher Education Pipeline: Consequences of Changes in College Admissions Policy in Texas (2010) (39)
Hispanicity and the 1980 census (1984) (38)
Gender ethnicity and labor force instability. (1996) (38)
The impact of changing employment opportunity on gender and ethnic earnings inequality (1988) (38)
Changes in Texas Universities' Applicant Pools after the Hopwood Decision. (2010) (37)
Economic Activity of Children in Peru: Labor Force Behavior in Rural and Urban Contexts. (1979) (37)
Employment, Motherhood and School Continuation Decisions Of Young White, Black and Hispanic Women (2000) (36)
Immigration, Gender and the Process of Occupational Change in the United States, 1970–80 1 (1984) (35)
Family Sponsorship and Late-Age Immigration in Aging America: Revised and Expanded Estimates of Chained Migration (2013) (34)
Youth in Cities: A Cross-National Perspective (2005) (34)
Job Mobility and Early Career Wage Growth of White, African‐American, and Hispanic Women* (2005) (33)
Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States (2011) (33)
Hispanics in the U.S. Economy. (1986) (33)
Fragile families and welfare reform: An introduction (2001) (30)
Delayed Enrollment and College Plans: Is There a Postponement Penalty? (2012) (30)
Capabilities and employability of unwed mothers (2001) (29)
Training Functions of Ethnic Economies: Mexican Entrepreneurs in Chicago (2000) (29)
MARKET CHARACTERISTICS AND HISPANIC EARNINGS: A COMPARISON OF NATIVES AND IMMIGRANTS* (1983) (29)
Wage Mobility of Undocumented Workers in the United States 1 (1995) (28)
Hispanics in the U.S. economy (1986) (28)
Welfare and Work in Chicago's Inner City (1990) (28)
Multiple Origins, Uncertain Destinies (2006) (28)
The effects of breastfeeding and pace of childbearing on mortality at early ages (1986) (26)
The Jacobs Foundation Series on Adolescence (2005) (25)
Barriers to Educational Opportunities for Hispanics in the U.S. (2006) (25)
Ethnicity and Intergenerational Identities and Adaptations in Britain: The Socio-Political Context (2005) (24)
Age at immigration and the incomes of older immigrants, 1994-2010. (2015) (24)
Minority Talent Loss and the Texas Top 10 Percent Law (2008) (23)
Ethnic Differences in School Departure: Does Youth Employment Promote or Undermine Educational Attainment? (1996) (23)
Demographic Responses to Economic Recessions in Latin America Since 1900 (1992) (23)
Rural U.S.A.: Persistence and Change. (1980) (23)
Nationality and Income Attainment among Native and Immigrant Hispanic Men in the United States (1983) (22)
The process of occupational change in a service society: the case of the United States 1960-1980. (1984) (22)
Sex, Ethnicity and Chicano Status Attainment (1982) (21)
Power and Pawn: The Female in Iberian Families, Societies, and Cultures. (1977) (20)
Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top 10% Law (2012) (20)
Comparative Perspectives on International Migration and Child Well-Being (2012) (20)
Missing in Application: The Texas Top 10% Law and Campus Socioeconomic Diversity (2008) (20)
Affirmative Action and the Texas Top 10% Percent Admission Law: Balancing Equity and Access to Higher Education (2008) (18)
Earnings consequences of employment instability among minority men. (1994) (18)
Converting education into earnings: The patterns among Hispanic origin men (1984) (18)
Immigration: Issues and Policies. (1987) (18)
Nativity differentials in public assistance receipt: a research note. (1988) (18)
The Promise and Peril of the Texas Uniform Admission Law (2008) (18)
Human Asset Development and the Transition from School to Work: Policy Lessons for the 21st Century (1999) (18)
College Attendance and the Texas Top 10 Percent Law: Permanent Contagion or Transitory Promise? (2003) (17)
Energy-Related Adaptations in Low-Income Nonmetropolitan Wisconsin Counties (1981) (16)
Contemporary immigration and refugee movements and employment adjustment policies. (1985) (16)
The Hispanic Population of the United States. A Census Monograph Series: The Population of the United States in the 1980s. (1987) (16)
Panel on Hispanics in the United States (2006) (16)
College Admission Policies and the Educational Pipeline: Implications for Medical and Health Professions (2001) (15)
Adolescent Romantic Relationships in the Digital Age (2017) (15)
Spouses or babies? Race, poverty and pathways to family formation in urban America (1994) (14)
Boundary crossing in first marriage and remarriage. (2017) (14)
Adolescent Relationship Quality: Is There an Intergenerational Link? (2019) (13)
Race, ethnicity and the portrait of inequality: Approaching the 1990s (1989) (12)
Age at migration, family instability, and timing of sexual onset. (2017) (12)
High School Peer Networks and College Success: Lessons from Texas. Discussion Paper Series DP 2008-07. (2008) (12)
Intermarriage and the Lifecycle Timing of Migration (2018) (12)
Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers (1990) (11)
Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms: The Multiple Facets of Ethnicity (2005) (11)
Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic and Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Business Development in Chicago (2001) (10)
Initial labor market experiences of black Hispanic and white men. (1993) (10)
Latinos and the American Pie: Can Latinos Achieve Economic Parity? (1995) (9)
Changes in industry structure and female employment in Latin America: 1950-1970. (1979) (9)
Migration, Ethnicity, and Labor Force Activity (1991) (9)
Multiplying Diversity: Family Unification and the Regional Origins of Late-Age US Immigrants (2017) (9)
Test Scores, Class Rank and College Performance: Lessons for Broadening Access and Promoting Success. (2012) (9)
Using Bi-Weekly Surveys to Portray Adolescent Partnership Dynamics: Lessons From a Mobile Diary Study. (2019) (8)
Age and economic dependency in Peru: a family life cycle analysis (1980) (8)
Fragile families and welfare reform part II (2001) (8)
Minority Talent Loss and the Texas Top 10% Law. (2008) (8)
High School Quality and Race Differences in College Achievement (2015) (8)
Segmented markets and earnings inequality of native and immigrant hispanics in the United States. (1980) (7)
Migration, Gender And Social Change: A Review And Reformulation (1988) (7)
Hispanics and US Schools: Problems, Puzzles, and Possibilities (2011) (7)
Racial equality in the labor market: still an elusive goal? (1992) (7)
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS: A COMPARATIVE ETHNIC PERSPECTIVE (2004) (7)
Community characteristics, women's education, and fertility in Peru. (1984) (6)
Thirteenth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research: Public Education and the Social Contract: Restoring the Promise in an Age of Diversity and Division (2017) (6)
The demography of legalization: insights from administrative records of legalized aliens. (1991) (6)
Puerto Ricans And The Underclass Debate: Evidence For Structural Explanations Of Labor Market Performance (1988) (6)
Comparative Perspectives of Urban Youth: Challenges for Normative Development (2002) (6)
The Challenges of Integration (2006) (6)
Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms: Deciphering Ethnicity: Reflections on Research Opportunities (2005) (5)
Community education and differential fertility in Peru (1985) (5)
Female-headed households and extended family formation in rural and urban Peru. (1980) (5)
The Educational Enrollment of Immigrant Youth: A Test of the Segmented-Assimilation Hypothesis (2002) (5)
Employment Prospects for Minority Women (1988) (5)
Workers of Color and Pathways to retirement (2002) (5)
Mexican American occupational mobility. (1984) (5)
Students Left Behind (2010) (5)
Employment, Motherhood, and School Continuation Decisions of Young White, Black, and Hispanic Women (2004) (5)
Women, Work, and Family.Frank L. MottWorking Women: A Study of Women in Paid Jobs.Ann Seidman (1982) (5)
Institutional and Ethnic Variations in Postgraduate Enrollment and Completion (2017) (5)
HISPANICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION AND THE TEXAS TOP TEN PERCENT LAW. (2012) (4)
Beyond Admissions: Lessons from Texas (2010) (4)
Immigration and Hispanic Educational Attainment: Challenges for the 1990s. (1988) (4)
Immigration, Gender, and the Process of Occupational Change in the U.S., 1970-1980. (1984) (4)
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH STATUS OF HISPANIC ADOLESCENT GIRLS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (2000) (4)
Family Structure and Economic Well-Being of Black, Hispanic, and White Pre-Retirement Adults (1998) (4)
Integration of multiple data sources in immigrant studies (1984) (4)
Pathways to retirement: patterns of late-age labor force participation and labor market exit by race Hispanic origin and sex. (1999) (4)
Social Policy and Minority Groups: What Might Have Been and What Might We See in the Future (1988) (4)
Low birthweight among immigrants in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (2017) (3)
The effects of pace of childbearing and breastfeeding on mortality at early ages: the case of Peru. (1983) (3)
Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms: Preface (2005) (3)
Texas’ Education Challenge: A Demographic Dividend or Bust? (2015) (3)
Female headship and extended household composition: comparison of Hispanics blacks and nonHispanic whites (1981) (3)
EMPLOYMENT RETURNS TO MIGRATION (1989) (3)
Migration preferential worker status and employment: divergent paths of Hispanic market insertion in the United States. (1987) (3)
The Color of Opportunity (2001) (3)
Labor market implications of Mexican migration: economies of scale innovation and entrepreneurship. (1997) (3)
Preliminary and Incomplete Do Not Cite Without Permission (2007) (2)
Minority Concentration and Earnings Inequality: A Revised Formulation. IRP Discussion Papers, DP #791-85. (1985) (2)
Occupational Careers of Young Women (2000) (2)
Ethnicity and Causal Mechanisms: Growing Up Ethnic in the United Kingdom and the United States: Comparative Contexts for Youth Development (2005) (2)
Diversifying the College Campus (2008) (2)
Of Work and the Welfare State: Labor Market Activity of Mexican Origin Seniors (2015) (2)
Testing, Ranking and College Performance: A Caution from Texas (2010) (2)
Prospect and Retrospect: Options for Healthy Youth Development in Changing Urban Worlds (2002) (2)
Adolescents’ Partner Search in the Digital Age: Correlates and Characteristics of Relationships Initiated Online (2022) (2)
Striving for Neutrality Lessons from Texas in the Aftermath of Hopwood and Fisher (2014) (2)
The economic activity of children in rural and urban Peru: labor force behavior in a familial context (1977) (2)
Researchon Poverty Discussion Papers the Occupational Position of Employed Hispanic Women (2007) (2)
A socioeconomic profile of Hispanic-American female workers: perspectives on labor force participation and earnings. (1981) (2)
Child and spouse replacement mechanisms: a life cycle perspective on family composition in Peru. (1980) (2)
Employment and Wage Consequences of Young Women's Labor Force and Job Transitions (2000) (2)
Adolescent Partnership Quality and Emotional Health: Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Study (2023) (2)
Ethnicity migration and income. (1989) (2)
Joblessness or shiftlessness: labor force activity in Chicagos inner-city. (1990) (1)
The occupational position of employed Hispanic females. (1981) (1)
Gender and Educational Differentials in Marital Sorting of Hispanic Young Adults (2021) (1)
Sociological Perspectives on Labor Markets.Ivar Berg (1983) (1)
No . 791-85 MINORITY CONCENTRATION AND EARNINGS INEQUALITY : A REVISED FORMULATION (2007) (1)
Contents Hispanics and the Future of America (2006) (1)
Using Paradata to Evaluate Youth Participation in a Digital Diary Study (2020) (1)
Realms of Integration: Family, Education, Work, and Health (2006) (1)
Extended household composition and female labor force participation (1983) (1)
Macro and micro contexts of dependency rates: An illustration with peruvian data (1981) (1)
Texasâ Education Challenge (2015) (1)
From Diversity to Inclusion Post Grutter and Fisher (2013) (1)
AGE AT IMMIGRATION AND ADULT ATTAINMENTS Of ChILD MIGRANTS (2012) (1)
A Canonical Correlation Analysis of Occupational Mobility Among Mexican Americans (1978) (1)
Diversity as a Strategic Advantage:: A Sociodemographic Perspective (2016) (1)
Investing in Latino Children and Youth: Volume Introduction and Overview (2021) (1)
Hispanics in the Labor Force: A Conference Report. (1982) (1)
Economic Implications of Demographic Change: Diversity Dividend or Deficit? (2016) (1)
LOOKING TO 1990: IMMIGRATION, INEQUALITY AND THE MEXICAN ORIGIN PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES (1988) (1)
Admission Guarantees, High School Economic Composition and College Application Behavior (2010) (1)
Population Composition by Race and Ethnicity: North America (2001) (1)
Policy in Texas (2016) (1)
Final report to the Ford Foundation and the Rural Economic Policy Program of the Aspen Institute : economic development and business cycle effects on income and welfare of rural households (1988) (1)
Population Composition by Ethnicity and Race in North America (2001) (1)
Economic Implications of Demographic Change: Diversity Dividend or Deficit? (2016) (1)
Labor Force Behavior of Hispanic Elderly : Insights from HRS No . 96-032 (1996) (1)
Inclusion: Promoting Integration in Higher Education ≠ Diversity (2014) (1)
Convergence and Polarization: The Story of Hispanics in the United States@@@The Hispanic Population of the United States. (1989) (1)
The Drug connection in U.S.-Mexican relations : papers prepared for the Bilateral Commission on the Future of United States-Mexican Relations (1989) (1)
Committee on Population (2006) (0)
Family Sponsorship and Late-Age Immigration in Aging America: Revised and Expanded Estimates of Chained Migration (2013) (0)
Migration and work: a comparative ethnic analysis. (1989) (0)
Rural minority families in the United States: changes in poverty and economic well-being 1960-1980. (1988) (0)
Living arrangements and components of household income among Hispanics blacks and non-Hispanic whites in the U.S. (1980) (0)
Ford Foundation Task Force on Statistical Policy and Data Needs for Hispanic Studies. Final Report. (1983) (0)
Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States.Alejandro Portes , Robert L. Bach (1987) (0)
Dependency extension and the family life cycle squeeze in Peru. (1980) (0)
Imaginary Identities (2012) (0)
Youth in Cities: Signs of Hope and Stress (2002) (0)
Queues and consequences: labor force activity of minority men and women. (1991) (0)
The Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door.Pastora San Juan Cafferty, Barry R. Chiswick , Andrew M. Greeley , Teresa A. Sullivan (1986) (0)
Biographical Sketches of Contributors (2006) (0)
Editor's Note (1994) (0)
Women's Position in the Process of Migration: Individual and Familial Perspectives of Changing Social Roles (1988) (0)
The Changing Demography of Spanish Americans.A. J. Jaffe , Ruth M. Cullen , Thomas D. Boswell (1982) (0)
The local US labour market impacts of low-skilled migration from Mexico* (2012) (0)
Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital: Ethnic Differences in College Destinations (2006) (0)
Generational overlap and replacement mechanisms : a life cycle perspective of family composition in Peru (1978) (0)
Census-Based Quantitative Analyses of Female Immigrants (2016) (0)
WORKING PAPERS IN ECONOMICS & ECONOMETRICS Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States (2011) (0)
Low Birthweight among Immigrants in Australia and the United Kingdom (2013) (0)
Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff (2006) (0)
High School Economic Composition and College Persistence (2012) (0)
Multiple Origins, Hispanic Portrait (2006) (0)
Zinacanteco women : prediction for change in a mexican village (1979) (0)
The occupational mobility experience of Chicanos. (1981) (0)
Queuing and labor force activity of minority women. (1990) (0)
Minorities and the Health and Retirement Survey : Future Analytic Opportunities and Data Requirements (2007) (0)
Zinacanteco Women : Prediction for Change in . a (0)
Are Economists in Over Their Heads (2012) (0)
Immigration, Opportunity, and Social Cohesion (2021) (0)
Ecological effects education and differential fertility in Peru. (1982) (0)
The National Academy of Sciences Report on Immigrant Integration into American Society (2016) (0)
The structural transformation of employment in Wisconsin: industry and occupational shifts in metropolitan nonmetropolitan and rural areas 1960-1970 Rev. ed. (1982) (0)
Labor Markets@@@Hispanics in the U.S. Economy (1987) (0)
Macro and micro contexts of age and economic dependency : an assessment with Peruvian data (1976) (0)
Fragile Families and Welfare Reform: An Introduction. JCPR Working Paper. (2002) (0)
Editor's Note (1992) (0)
Ethnicity, Employment and Migration (1988) (0)
Birthing, Nativity, and Maternal Depression: Australia and the United States1,2 (2015) (0)
Chapter 7. Diversity as a Strategic Advantage: A Sociodemographic Perspective (2016) (0)
Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top 10% Law (2012) (0)
Introduction to the Thematic Issue (1992) (0)
High School Hangover and Minority College Achievement (2009) (0)
Three decades of demographic change in selected developing countries: impacts on socio-economics and political instability. (1982) (0)
Adolescents' Love Lives: Heterogeneity in Relationship Status Trajectories and Links with Affect. (2023) (0)
A research note on intergenerational occupational mobility: the Chicano experience in America. (1981) (0)
Optimism and Achievement: The Educational Performance of Immigrant Youth* (2022) (0)
The socioeconomic adaptation of recent Southeast Asian refugees: a statistical profile. (1986) (0)

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