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Kim Lloyd
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., SUNY Albany, 2000

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Current Research Interests: My core research interests lie in the areas of race/ethnicity and social inequality, particularly with respect to family formation and educational attainment in the United States. I am currently engaged in two principal lines of research.

The first examines the role of U.S. marriage markets in producing divergent family outcomes among Latinos and African Americans in relation to non-Hispanic whites. Recent work in this area includes a methodological piece identifying the racial and ethnic boundaries that delineate the Hispanic marriage market; an examination of intergenerational differences in Latinas' transition to marriage; the construction of a theoretical marriage market constraints perspective to explain differences in marital timing by immigrant generation; and the creation of a new theoretical model - the Structural Assortative Mating Model - to account for the disparate impact of contextual characteristics on Anglo, African American, and Latino men's marital timing.

My second line of research explores ethno-racial inequality arising from differential access to the American educational system. Funded through a previous grant from the Ford Foundation and a current grant from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) I am studying the elimination of race sensitive college-admissions criteria (i.e., Affirmative Action) in the state of Texas and its subsequent replacement with the Top 10% Plan. The goal of this project is to assess minority student outcomes under alternative admissions regimes. Recent work examines the impact of the Top 10% policy on minority high school students' educational aspirations, expectations, and college applications; changes in the admissions and enrollments of minority students in selective public universities before and after affirmative action; and minority representation and success in selective public and private universities under alternative (i.e., race-sensitive vs. race-neutral) admissions regimes.

Recent Publications:

Lloyd, Kim M. 2005. “Marriage Market Boundaries and Latino Men's Transition to First Marriage: Evidence of Ethno-racial Assortative Mating in the United States .” Revise and Resubmit, Social Forces.

Lloyd, Kim M., Kevin T. Leicht, and Teresa A. Sullivan. 2005. “Minority Educational Aspirations, Expectations, and Application Under the Texas Top 10% Law.” Revise and Resubmit, Sociology of Education.

Lloyd, Kim M. 2005. “ Latinas' Transition to First Marriage in the United States : An Examination of Competing Theoretical Perspectives. ” Submitted, Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Lloyd, Kim M. “Intergenerational Differences in Latinas' Transition to First Marriage: Assimilation or Marriage Market Constraints?” Submitted,  American Sociological Review.

Tined, Marta, Kevin Leicht, Teresa Sullivan, and Kim M. Lloyd. “Closing the Gap? Admissions and Enrollments at the Texas Public Flagships Before and After Affirmative Action.” Submitted, American Journal of Sociology .

Lloyd, Kim M. , Marta Tined, and Anna Zajacova. 2001. “Trends in Educational Achievement of Minority Students since Brown v. Board of Education.” In Achieving High Educational Standards for All , Ready, Edley, and Snow (Eds.), National Research Council, Washington , DC : National Academy Press.

Lloyd, Kim M., and Scott J. South. 1996. “Contextual Influences on Young Men's Transition to First Marriage.” Social Forces 74:1097-1119.

South, Scott J., and Kim M. Lloyd . 1995. “Spousal Alternatives and Marital Dissolution.” American Sociological Review 60:21-35.