About Thomas Espenshade
Born 1943. Thomas Espenshade is an economist, demographer and sociologist.
Thomas J. Espenshade (born March 17, 1943) 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. The book concluded that Asian American applicants to United States colleges were much more likely to be rejected by seven elite colleges than were similar members of any other race. It received the American Sociological Association's Pierre Bourdieu Award, which is given to the year's best book on sociology of education, in 2011.
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American economist
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