biography

Tatiana Melguizo, Ph.D.

Dr. Melguizo is an Assistant Professor in the USC Rossier School of Education. She works in the field of economics of higher education. She uses quantitative methods of analysis and large-scale longitudinal survey data to study the association of different factors such as student trajectories and specific institutional characteristics on the persistence and educational outcomes of minority (African American and Hispanic) and low-income students.

Dr. Melguizo received a Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Stanford University and an M.A. in Social Policy from the London School of Economics. Her work has been published in Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Teachers College Record, The Journal of Higher Education, The Review of Higher Education, and Research in Higher Education. She is a recipient of the American Education Research Association (AERA) dissertation grant. Dr. Melguizo has also received grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), Spencer foundation, AERA, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Jack Kent Cooke, Nellie Mae and Lumina foundations and from the Association for Institutional Research, National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (AIR/NPEC).

Recent Publications

• Melguizo, T. (2010). Are students of color more likely to graduate from college if they attend more selective institutions? Evidence from the first cohort of recipients and non-recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship (GMS) program. Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 32,230-248.
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• Melguizo, T., Kienzl, G., & Alfonso, M. (Forthcoming). Comparing the educational attainment of community college transfer students and four-year rising juniors using propensity score matching methods. The Journal of Higher Education.
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• Melguizo, T., Bos, H., & Prather, G. (Forthcoming). Is developmental education helping community college’ students persist? A critical review of the literature. American Behavioral Scientist.
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• Melguizo, T., Sanchez, F.J., & Jaime, H. (Forthcoming). The association between financial aid availability and the college dropout rates in Colombia. Higher Education.
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• Melguizo, T. (2008). Are community colleges an alternative path for Hispanic students to attain a bachelor’s degree? Teachers College Record, 110 (12).
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• Melguizo, T. (2008). Quality matters: Assessing the impact of selective institutions on minority college completion rates. Research in Higher Education 49(3), 214-236.
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• Melguizo, T., & Dowd, A.C. (2009). Baccalaureate success of transfers and rising four-year college juniors. Teachers College Record, 111 (1), 55-89.
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• Melguizo, T., Hagedorn, L.S., & Cypers, S. (2008). The Need for remedial/developmental education and the cost of community college transfer: calculations from a sample of California community college transfers. The Review of Higher Education, 31(4), 401-431.
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• Melguizo, T., & Strober, M. (2007). Faculty salaries and the maximization of prestige. Research in Higher Education, 48(6), 633-668.
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• Dowd, A.C., & Melguizo, T.  (2008). Socioeconomic stratification of community college transfer access in the 1980s and 1990s. The Review of Higher Education, 31(4), 377-400.
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• Dowd, A.C., Cheslock, J., & Melguizo, T.  (2008). Transfer access from community colleges and the distribution of elite higher education. The Journal of Higher Education, 79(4):1-31.
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• Kienzl, G., Alfonso, M., & Melguizo, T. (2007). The effect of local labor market conditions in the 1990s on the likelihood of a community college students’ persistence and attainment. Research in Higher Education, 48(7), 751-774.
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