Florencia Torche

Florencia Torche holds the Edwards S. Sanford Professorship at Princeton University, jointly appointed in the Department of Sociology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). Her research centers on social inequality, social mobility, educational disparities, and marriage and family dynamics, with recent work applying causal inference to study the lifelong impacts of early-life exposures. She has secured significant funding from institutions like the National Science Foundation and NIH.

• Education:
  • BA, Catholic University of Chile
  • MA, Columbia University
  • PhD, Columbia University

Research Interests span social stratification, inequality of opportunity, demographic transitions, and intergenerational effects, often leveraging natural experiments and quantitative methods.

Scientific Recognition:

• Elected to the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (2023)
• National Academy of Sciences (2020)
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)

Professor Torche has spearheaded large-scale collaborative projects, including national social mobility surveys in Chile and Mexico, and her work has been supported by prestigious organizations such as the Russell Sage Foundation and Ford Foundation.