Journal Articles
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| Julie Berry Cullen, Mark C. Long, Randall Reback | Forthcoming | "Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan." Journal of Public Economics. |
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| Marta Tienda, Sunny X. Niu | 2013 | "Delayed Enrollment and College Plans: Is there a Postponement Penalty?" Journal of Higher Education. |
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| Steven Alvarado, Ruth N. Lopez-Turley | 2012 | "College-Bound Friends and College Application
Choices:Heterogeneous Effects for Latino and White Students" Social Science Research. |
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| Jason Fletcher | 2012 | "Similarity in Peer College Preferences: New Evidence from Texas" Social Science Research. 41(2): 321-330. |
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| Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda | 2012 | "High School Economic Composition and College Persistence" Research in Higher Education. |
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| Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda | 2012 | "Test Scores, Class Rank and College Performance: Lessons for Broadening Access and Promoting Success" Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia. |
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| Angel Harris, Marta Tienda | 2012 | "Hispanics in Higher Education and the Texas Top Ten Percent Law" Race and Social Problems. 4(1): 57-67. |
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| Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "The Impact of the Texas Top 10% Law on College Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Approach" Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 29(1): 84-110. |
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| Ruth N. Lopez-Turley, Matthew Desmond, Sarah Bruch | 2010 | "Unanticipated Educational Consequences of a Positive Parent-Child Relationship" Journal of Marriage and Family. 72: 1377-1390. |
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| Mark C. Long, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "Changes in Texas Universities' Applicant Pools after the Hopwood Decision" Social Science Research. 39: 48-66. |
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| Thurston Domina, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "Students Left Behind: Measuring 10th to 12th Grade Persistence Rates in Texas Public High Schools" Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 32(2): 324-346. |
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| Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "Minority Student Academic Performance under the Uniform Admission Law: Evidence from the University of Texas at Austin" Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 32(1): 44-69. |
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| Kalena Cortes | 2010 | "Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan" Economics of Education Review. 29(6): 1110-1124. |
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| Sigal Alon, Thurston Domina, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "Stymied Mobility or Temporary Lull? Intergenerational Discontinuities in Hispanic College Destinations" Social Forces. 88(4): 1807-1832. |
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| Marta Tienda, Sigal Alon, Sunny X. Niu | 2010 | "Affirmative Action and the Texas Top 10% Percent Admission Law: Balancing Equity and Access to Higher Education" Sociétés Contemporaines. 79: 5-96. |
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| Milagros Nores | 2010 | "Differences in College Major Choice by Citizenship Status" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 125-141. |
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| Eric Grodsky, Catherine Riegle-Crumb | 2010 | "Those Who Choose and Those Who Don't: Social Background and College Orientation" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 14-35. |
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| Jayanti Owens | 2010 | "Foreign Students, Immigrants, Domestic Minorities and Admission to Texas' Selective Flagship Universities Before and After the Ban on Affirmative Action" Peabody Journal of Education. 85(4): 486-510. |
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| Angel Harris, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "Minority Higher Education Pipeline: Consequences of Changes in College Admissions Policy in Texas" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 60-81. |
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| Mark C. Long, Victor Saenz, Marta Tienda | 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. 627(1): 82-105. |
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| Eric Furstenberg | 2010 | "Academic Outcomes and Texas's Top 10% Law" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 167-183. |
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| Jason Fletcher, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "Race and Ethnic Differences in College Achievement: Does High School Attended Matter?" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 144-166. |
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| Lisa Dickson | 2010 | "Race and Gender Differences in College Major Choice" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 108-124. |
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| Dylan Conger, Mark C. Long | 2010 | "Why are Men Falling Behind? Explanations for the Gender Gap in College Outcomes" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 184-214. |
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| Donnell Butler | 2010 | "Ethno-Racial Segregation and College Choice: Revisiting the Perpetuation of Segregation Hypothesis" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 36-58. |
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| Catherine Riegle-Crumb | 2010 | "More Girls Go to College: Exploring the Social and Academic Factors Behind the Female Postsecondary Advantage Among Hispanic and White Students" Research in Higher Education. 51(6): 573-593. |
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| Mark C. Long, Marta Tienda | 2010 | "Beyond Admissions: Lessons From Texas" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 627(1): 6-11. |
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| 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. |
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| Jason Fletcher, Marta Tienda | 2009 | "High School Classmates and College Success" Sociology of Education. 82(4): 287-314. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda | 2008 | "Choosing Colleges: Identifying and Modeling Choice Sets" Social Science Research. 37(2): 416-433. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Sigal Alon, Marta Tienda | 2007 | "Diversity, Opportunity and the Shifting Meritocracy in Higher Education" American Sociological Review. 72(4): 487-511. |
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| Michelle Bellessa Frost | 2007 | "Texas Students' College Expectations: Does High School Racial Composition Matter?" Sociology of Education. 80(1): 43-66. |
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| Marta Tienda | 2007 | "Hispanics at the Age Crossroads: Opportunities and Risks" Focus. 25(1): 27-32. |
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| Meredith Kleykamp | 2006 | "College, Jobs, or the Military: Enlistment During a Time of War" Social Science Quarterly. 87(2): 272-290. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Sunny X. Niu, Marta Tienda, Kalena Cortes | 2006 | "College Selectivity and the Texas Top 10% Law" Economics of Education Review. 25(3): 259-272. |
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| Sigal Alon, Marta Tienda | 2005 | "Assessing the 'Mismatch' Hypothesis: Differentials in College Graduation Rates by Institutional Selectivity" Sociology of Education. 78(4): 294-315. |
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