Trejo

Biographic Data

ID39837
NAMETrejo
FAMILY NAMETrejo
SIGNATURETREJO
AFFILIATIONSPrinceton University
ORCID0000-0002-9880-5354
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • What Does It Mean to Be Black? Experimental Evidence on the Situational Deployment of Racial Schemas

    Open AccessMarissa E Thompson, A J Alvero et al.ARTICLESociology of Race and Ethnicity2026

    How do Black Americans construct narratives about the meaning and boundaries of Blackness in America today? We leverage an original, nationally representative survey experiment among U.S.-born Black Americans ( n = 3,100) to examine (1) justifications used to validate or reject another’s racial self-identification as Black and (2) how situational cues shape these narratives. Using a vignette experiment and structural topic modeling, we find that …

  • Leveraging Genomic Data to Document Within-Race Attractiveness Penalties Among Black Americans

    Open AccessBeza Taddess, Luyin Zhang et al.ARTICLESociological Science2026

    In recent years, scholars of racial inequality have increasingly sought to move beyond simply quantifying discrete racial disparities and instead measure social stratification as a function of continuous racialized characteristics that vary both within and between racial groups. In this article, we draw on a sample of genotyped respondents from the Add Health study and construct genetic similarity proportions, individual-level measures that corre…

  • Policing the Boundaries of Blackness: How Black and White Americans Evaluate Racial Self-Identifications

    Marissa E Thompson, Trejo et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology2025References: 3

    How do people assess the authenticity and legitimacy of another person’s racial self-identification? This study explores the racial conceptions held by both Black and White Americans as they decide who they believe can—and cannot—self-identify as Black across a range of contexts. We examine how a person’s responses compare to their perceptions of how other Americans evaluate racial claims. Using a series of survey experiments, we find that respon…

  • My School District Isn't Segregated: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Information on Parental Preferences Regarding School Segregation

    Open AccessMarissa E Thompson, TrejoARTICLESociology of Education2024Cited by: 7References: 78

    U.S. public schools are increasingly segregated by income, resulting in substantial educational inequality among U.S. schoolchildren. We conducted a nationally representative survey to explore the relationship between parental beliefs about and preferences regarding school segregation. Using experimental manipulation, we tested if learning about levels of school segregation in their local school district affects a parent's attitudes and preferenc…

  • Exploring the Fetal Origins Hypothesis Using Genetic Data

    Open AccessTrejoARTICLESocial Forces2024References: 80

    Birth weight is a robust predictor of valued life course outcomes, emphasizing the importance of prenatal development. But does birth weight act as a proxy for environmental conditions in utero, or do biological processes surrounding birth weight themselves play a role in healthy development? To answer this question, we leverage variation in birth weight that is, within families, orthogonal to prenatal environmental conditions: one's genes. We co…

  • Interactions between Polygenic Scores and Environments: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges

    Open AccessB W Domínguez, Benjamin Domingue et al.ARTICLESociological Science2020

    Interest in the study of gene-environment interaction has recently grown due to the sudden availability of molecular genetic data-in particular, polygenic scores-in many long-running longitudinal studies. Identifying and estimating statistical interactions comes with several analytic and inferential challenges; these challenges are heightened when used to integrate observational genomic and social science data. We articulate some of these key cha…

  • Genetic nature or genetic nurture? Introducing social genetic parameters to quantify bias in polygenic score analyses

    Trejo, B W DomínguezARTICLEBiodemography and Social Biology2018

    Results from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) can be used to generate a polygenic score (PGS), an individual-level measure summarizing identified genetic influence on a trait dispersed across the genome. For complex, behavioral traits, the association between an individual's PGS and their phenotype may contain bias (from geographic, ancestral, and/or socioeconomic confounding) alongside the causal effect of the individual's genes. We formal…

  • Schools as Moderators of Genetic Associations with Life Course Attainments: Evidence from the WLS and Add Health

    Open AccessTrejo, Daniel W Belsky et al.ARTICLESociological Science2018Cited by: 18References: 6

    Genetic variants identified in genome-wide association studies of educational attainment have been linked with a range of positive life course development outcomes. However, it remains unclear whether school environments may moderate these genetic associations. We analyze data from two biosocial surveys that contain both genetic data and follow students from secondary school through mid- to late life. We test if the magnitudes of the associations…