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Thomas Espenshade

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PhD Economics Princeton University
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According to Wikipedia, Thomas J. Espenshade is an American sociologist known for his work on social demography. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Princeton University's Office of Population Research, as well as the director of the National Study of College Experience and the Campus Life in America Student Survey. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton in 1972 and joined their faculty in 1988.

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Thomas Espenshade's Published Works

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Self-Efficacy, Stress, and Academic Success in College (2005) (960)
Contemporary American Attitudes toward U.S. Immigration 1 (1996) (538)
Immigrant Incorporation and Political Participation in the United States 1 (2001) (323)
An analysis of English-language proficiency among U.S. immigrants. (1997) (281)
An analysis of public opinion toward undocumented immigration (1993) (265)
No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life (2009) (222)
Unauthorized immigration to the United States. (1995) (199)
Allocation of Income within the Household (1989) (197)
Marriage trends in America: estimates implications and underlying causes (1985) (177)
New Approaches to Human Mobility: Using Mobile Phones for Demographic Research (2013) (161)
Admission Preferences for Minority Students, Athletes, and Legacies at Elite Universities* (2004) (150)
The Ambivalent Welcome: Print Media, Public Opinion and Immigration. (1994) (132)
The Frog Pond Revisited: High School Academic Context, Class Rank, and Elite College Admission (2005) (114)
Population Growth and Economic Development: Issues and Evidence. (1987) (111)
Investing in Children: New Estimates of Parental Expenditures. (1985) (106)
The Opportunity Cost of Admission Preferences at Elite Universities (2005) (103)
The Surprising Global Variation in Replacement Fertility (2003) (100)
The Economic Consequences of Divorce. (1979) (99)
The value and cost of children. (1977) (89)
Does the threat of border apprehension deter undocumented U.S. immigration (1994) (87)
Implications of the 1996 Welfare and Immigration Reform Acts for U.S. immigration. (1997) (85)
Using ins Border Apprehension Data to Measure the Flow of Undocumented Migrants Crossing the U.S.-Mexico Frontier 1 (1995) (75)
Immigration and the stable population model (1982) (72)
The U.S. 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act and undocumented migration to the United States (1990) (59)
Childbearing and Wives' Foregone Earnings (1988) (59)
INVESTING IN CHILDREN (1984) (56)
Neo-Isolationism, Balanced-Budget Conservatism, and the Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants 1 (1997) (55)
Fiscal impacts of immigration to the United States. (1992) (54)
The international migration of the highly skilled : demand, supply, and development consequences in sending and receiving countries (2001) (50)
Population momentum across the demographic transition. (2011) (46)
An analysis of public opinion toward undocumented immigration (1993) (37)
“Replacement Migration” from the Perspective of Equilibrium Stationary Populations (2001) (36)
Population Dynamics with Immigration and Low Fertility (1986) (36)
Completing the Ph.D. : Comparative performances of U.S. and foreign students (1997) (35)
The Cost of Children in Urban United States (1973) (34)
The Economic Consequences of Slowing Population Growth (1978) (31)
Can immigration slow U.S. population aging (1994) (30)
Employment and earnings of foreign-born scientists and engineers (2001) (29)
Keys to Successful Immigration (1997) (29)
Migrant cohort size, enforcement effort, and the apprehension of undocumented aliens (1995) (26)
Implications of a North American free trade agreement for Mexican migration into the United States. (1992) (25)
Differential Fertility Within an Ethnic Minority: The Effect of “Trying Harder” Among Chinese-American Women (1994) (24)
Life course analysis and multistate demography: an application to marriage divorce and remarriage (1982) (23)
The price of children and socio-economic theories of fertility. (1972) (23)
Immigration policy and immigrants' ages (1988) (23)
High-end immigrants and the shortage of skilled labor (2001) (21)
Family size and economic welfare. (1983) (19)
Zero population growth and the economies of developed nations. (1978) (18)
Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage from Retrospective Data: A Multiregional Approach (1983) (17)
The impact of children on household saving: Age effects versus family size. (1975) (16)
Fiscal impacts of immigrant and native households: a New Jersey case study. (1998) (15)
State and local fiscal impacts of US immigrants: Evidence from New Jersey (1994) (15)
Demographic implications of the 1986 US tax reform. (1987) (15)
How a trend towards a stationary population affects consumer demand. (1978) (15)
Keys to Successful Immigration: Implications of the New Jersey Experience (1998) (14)
Chapter 5 Immigrants, Puerto Ricans, and the Earnings of Native Black Males (2017) (12)
Are Immigrants a Drain on the Public Fisc? State and Local Impacts in New Jersey (2002) (12)
U.S. public perceptions and reactions to Mexican migration. (1997) (12)
The H-1B Visa Debate in Historical Perspective: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward Foreign-Born Workers (2000) (12)
Estimating the cost of children and some results from urban United States (1974) (11)
Aging in America: Limits to life span and elderly care options (1992) (10)
The stable decomposition of the rate of natural increase. (1975) (10)
On Nonstable and Stable Population Momentum (2011) (10)
A new method for estimating the level of natural fertility in populations practicing birth control (1971) (10)
Confidence intervals for postcensal state population estimates (1982) (9)
Standardized Admission Tests, College Performance, and Campus Diversity (2010) (8)
Population Dynamics: Momentum of Population Growth (2015) (8)
Foreign and undocumented workers in California agriculture (1987) (8)
Population replacement and immigrant adaptation: new issues facing the West. (1986) (7)
2 – The Economics of Declining Population Growth: An Assessment of the Current Literature (1978) (6)
Immigration Policy in the United States: Future Prospects for the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Program for Resarch on Immigration Policy. (1988) (6)
Reply to Simon (1995) (6)
The dollars and cents of parenthood (1986) (6)
The stable equivalent population, age composition, and Fisher’s reproductive value function (1977) (6)
Immigration's prism: Historical continuities in the Kennedy-Simpson legal immigration reform bill (1990) (5)
Immigration and social policy: new interest in an old issue. (1996) (5)
The Taste for Children (1977) (4)
Recent Immigrants to Los Angeles: Characteristics and Labor Market Impacts. Impacts of Immigration in California, Policy Discussion Paper. (1985) (4)
Policy influences on undocumented migration to the United States. (1992) (4)
Collecting Ethnographic Video Data for Policy Research (2019) (4)
Evaluating the accuracy of U.S. population projection models. (1991) (4)
Patterns of recent illegal migration to the United States. (1991) (3)
A (net) net reproduction rate (1982) (3)
A short history of U.S. policy toward illegal immigration. (1990) (3)
Investing in Children: Estimates of Parental Expenditures (1984) (2)
Doing Engineering: The Career Attainment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers.By Joyce Tang. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. 242 pp (2001) (2)
A Conversation on the Nature, Effects, and Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education Admissions (2015) (2)
The impact of changing state economic conditions on public school enrollments (1979) (2)
Genealogical studies as demographic data. (1972) (2)
Emigration as an auxiliary method of population control. (1985) (2)
Peru's coming baby boomlet (1995) (2)
Los Angeles rides the wave. (1986) (2)
Ponds, Priorities, and College Academic Performance (2010) (1)
Paths to zero population growth. (1983) (1)
Book reviews (1993) (1)
Boom's Progress (1981) (1)
Comment on Mitra’s generalization (1984) (1)
Childbearing and Wives' Foregone Earnings. Project Report. (1986) (1)
Time and trajectory of convergence to population stationarity with immigration and low fertility. (1990) (1)
Why the United States Needs Immigrants. (1986) (1)
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration by Richard Alba and Victor Nee: Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration . By Richard Alba and Victor Nee . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. xiv+359. $39.95. (2004) (1)
The fiscal impacts of immigrant and native households: does nativity really matter? (2000) (1)
The stable population model, migration, and complementarity (1989) (1)
AIDS, low birth rates, and future growth in Thailand. (1994) (1)
Book Review: The New Immigration: Implications for Poverty and Public Assistance Utilization (1991) (0)
Chapter One. OVERVIEW (2009) (0)
DOES THE “MISMATCH HYPOTHESIS” APPLY TO HISPANIC (2012) (0)
Chapter Two. PREPARING FOR COLLEGE (2009) (0)
Demographics of decline. (1981) (0)
Projected Imbalances between Labor Supply and Labor Demand in the Caribbean Basin: Implications for Future Migration to the United States. (1988) (0)
The Power of Race November 3 , 2009 Is the glass half empty or half full ? (2009) (0)
Doing Engineering: The Career Attainment and Mobility of Caucasian, Black, and Asian-American Engineers (review) (2001) (0)
Appendix A. THE NSCE DATABASE (2009) (0)
Chapter Five. MIXING AND MINGLING ON CAMPUS (2009) (0)
Chapter Ten. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE (2009) (0)
Book reviews (1996) (0)
U.S. Immigration Policy, Immigrants' Ages, and U.S. Population Size. (1987) (0)
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN HIGHER EDUCATION ADMISSIONS (2015) (0)
Chapter Nine. DO WE STILL NEED AFFIRMATIVE ACTION (2009) (0)
The H-1B Visa Debate in Historical Perspective: The H-1B Visa Debate in Historical Perspective: The Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward Foreign-Born Workers The Evolution of U.S. Policy Toward Foreign-Born Workers (2000) (0)
Chapter Four. THE ENTERING FRESHMAN CLASS (2009) (0)
Book reviews (1995) (0)
Acknowledgments to Referees (1998) (0)
Book Review:Immigrant America: A Portrait. Alejandro Portes, Ruben G. Rumbaut (1991) (0)
Compensating changes in fertility and mortality (1976) (0)
On "Weak" and "Strong" Population Momentum (2009) (0)
Errata Notice (1968) (0)
Appendix B. NOTES ON METHODOLOGY (2009) (0)
Technological Prospects and Population Trends (1988) (0)
Chapter Six. ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE (2009) (0)
Immigration to Southern California: Fact and Fiction. Impacts of Immigration in California. (1986) (0)
Comment on George zito’s “a note on the population of seventeenth century London” (1973) (0)
Neo-Isolationism, Balanced-Budget Conservatism) and the Fiscal Impacts of Immigrants 1 (2018) (0)
Editors' Introduction (2001) (0)
Chapter Three. WHAT COUNTS IN BEING ADMITTED (2009) (0)
Chapter Seven. SHOULDERING THE FINANCIAL BURDEN (2009) (0)
Chapter Eight. BROADER PERSPECTIVES ON THE SELECTIVE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE (2009) (0)
Public Attitudes toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany (2002) (0)
City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami.Alejandro Portes , Alex Stepick (1994) (0)

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