PUBLICATIONS (email me if you would like a copy: florencia.torche@nyu.edu)

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals - Book Chapters - Book Reviews & Others

ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS.

2007 Neckerman, K. and F. Torche “Inequality: Causes and Consequences” forthcoming in Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 33.

2007 Torche, F. “Social Status and Cultural Consumption: The Case of Reading in Chile” forthcoming in Poetics.

2005 Torche, F. "Unequal but Fluid: Social Mobility in Chile in Comparative Perspective" American Sociological Review 70(3): 422-450.

2005 Torche, F. "Privatization Reform and Inequality of Educational Opportunity: The Case of Chile" Sociology of Education 78: 316-343.

BOOK CHAPTERS.

    2007 Torche, F. and S. Spilerman “Wealth Distribution in Latin America” forthcoming in J. Davies and A. Shorrocks 
    eds. Personal Assets from a Global Perspective. Helsinki: WIDER-UN.

2007  Torche, F. "Social Status and Cultural Consumption: The Chilean Case in Comparative Perspective” forthcoming in T.W. Chan and J. Goldthorpe eds. Social Status, Lifestyle and Cultural Consumption. Under contract, Stanford University Press.

2007  Torche, F . and G. Wormald “Social Stratification and Mobility: Chile at the End of the 20th Century”. Forthcoming in R. Atria ed . Stratification and Mobility in Latin America. Santiago : Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean ECLAC.

2006 Torche, F. and S. Spilerman “Wealth, Parental Transfers, and Standard of Living: An Empirical Analysis of Chile ” in Wolff, E. ed. International Perspectives on Household Wealth. Northhampton MA: Edward Elgar.

2004 Spilerman, S. and Torche, F. “Living Standards Potential and the Transmission of Advantage in Chile ” in Wolff, Edward ed. What has Happened to the Quality of Life in Advanced Industrialized Nations. Northhampton MA: Edward Elgar.

2001 “Urban Informal Microenterprise and Social Integration: A Qualitative Approach” in Tokman, V. ed. From Informality to Modernity . Santiago de Chile: International Labor Office ILO.

1999 Alves, M.; Arbulú, R.; Chávez, E.; Huertas, G. and Torche, F . Union Associations in Latin America 's Informal Sector . Lima: International Labor Office ILO.

BOOK REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.

    2007. Review of "Approaches to Class Analysis" edited by E.O. Wright. forthcoming in Contemporary Sociology.

2005. Review of “Home Onwership and Inequality in Comparative Perspective”. Edited by K. Kurz and H.P. Blossfeld, Stanford U. Press. American Journal of Sociology 11(3), November.

2004. Torche, F. and G. Wormald “Stratification and Mobility in Chile : Between Ascription and Achievement”. Working Document 98, Social Policies Series, ECLAC.