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Marta Tienda is the Maurice P. During '22 Professor in Demographic Studies and a Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She also chairs a National Academy of Sciences Panel on the U.S. Hispanic population. Dr. 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. 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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