Florencia Torche

Professor of Sociology

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Email:

torche@stanford.edu

Phone:

650-723-3471

About

Florencia Torche is a social scientist with expertise in social demography, stratification, and education. Professor Torche’s scholarship examines inequality dynamics including intergenerational mobility, disparities in educational attainment, and assortative mating, among others. Her research also examines the influence of early-life exposures –starting before birth– on iindividual wellbeing and inequality. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2020.

Torche has led many large data collection projects, including the first national survey on social mobility in Chile and Mexico. Her work has appeared in flagship journals in sociology and other disciplines, such as the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Sociology, and Demography.

Professor Torche holds a BA from the Catholic University of Chile and an MA and PhD in Sociology from Columbia University.

Selected Publications

Torche, Florencia and Catherine Sirois. 2019. “Restrictive Immigration Law and Birth Outcomes of Immigrant Women.” American Journal of Epidemiology. 188(1): 24–33.

Telles, Edward and Florencia Torche. 2019. “Varieties of Indigeneity in the Americas” Social Forces 97(4): 1543–1570.

Torche, Florencia. 2018. “Prenatal Exposure to an Acute Stressor and Children’s Cognitive Outcomes.” Demography 55: 1611-1639.

Torche, Florencia. 2018. “Intergenerational Mobility at the Top of the Educational Distribution” Sociology of Education 91(4) 266–289.

Lopez-Calva, Luis Felipe, Jamele Rigolini and Florencia Torche. 2017. “Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values?: Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America" Journal of Globalization and Development 7(2): 709-751

Halpern-Manners, Andrew, John Robert Warren, and Florencia Torche. 2017. “Panel Conditioning in the General Social Survey.” Sociological Methods and Research 46(1) 103-124.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters

Torche, Florencia, and Tamkinat Rauf. 2020. “Transition to Fatherhood and the Health of Men.” Journal of Marriage and Family. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12732

Florencia Torche and Alejandro Corvalan. 2018. "Estimating Intergenerational Mobility With Grouped Data: A Critique of Clark’s the Son Also Rises" In Press, Sociological Methods and Research 47(4) 787-811

Torche, Florencia and Peter Rich. 2016. “Declining Racial Stratification in Marriage Choices? Trends in Black/White Status Exchange in the US 1980-2010” In Press, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

Torche, Florencia and Uri Shwed. 2015. “The Hidden Costs of War: Environmental Stress Exposure and Birth Outcomes” Sociological Science 2: 558-581.

Torche, Florencia. 2015. “Intergenerational Mobility and Equality of Opportunity,” European Journal of Sociology 56(3): 343–371.

Torche, Florencia. 2015. “Intergenerational Mobility and Gender in Mexico,” Social Forces 94: 563- 587

Torche, Florencia. 2014. “Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality: The Latin American Case” Annual Review of Sociology 40: 619 - 642.

Gullickson, Aaron and Florencia Torche. 2014. “Patterns of racial and educational assortative mating in Brazil” Demography 51(3):835-56.

Caudillo, Monica and Florencia Torche. 2014. “Exposure to local violence and early educational attainment” Sociology of Education 87(2): 89-105

Torche, Florencia and Andres Villarreal. 2014. “Prenatal Exposure to Violence and Birth Weight in Mexico: Selectivity, Exposure, and Behavioral Responses” American Sociological Review 79(5): 966-92

Torche, Florencia and Karine Kleinhaus. 2012. “Prenatal stress, gestational age and secondary sex ratio: The sex-specific effects of exposure to a natural disaster in early pregnancy”, Human Reproduction 27(2): 558-67

Mizala, Alejandra and Florencia Torche. 2012. “Bringing the Schools Back In: The Stratification of Achievement in the Chilean Voucher System” International Journal of Educational Development 32: 132-44

Torche, Florencia 2011. “Is a College Degree Still the Great Equalizer? Intergenerational Mobility across Levels of Schooling in the US” American Journal of Sociology 117(3): 763-807

Torche, Florencia 2011. “The Effect of Maternal Stress on Birth Outcomes: Exploiting a Natural Experiment” Demography 48(4): 1473-1491

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