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2025

“Paper, practice, ancestry, culture”: Racial frames and contested racial/ethnic census categories.
Social Forces 
Marissa E. Thompson

2024

Gender Segregation and Decision-Making in Undergraduate Course-Taking.
Sociological Science 
Marissa E. Thompson, Tobias Dalberg, and Elizabeth E. Bruch

The Effect of Academic Outcomes, Equity, and Student Demographics on Parental Preferences for Schools: Evidence from a Survey Experiment.
Social Forces 
Marissa E. Thompson

My School District Isn’t Segregated: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Information on Parental Preferences Regarding School Segregation.
Sociology of Education 
Marissa E. Thompson* and Sam Trejo*

Examining the Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: The Role of Exclusionary School Discipline & Criminal Justice Contact.
Social Forces 
Marissa E. Thompson

2023

The Role of Early Schooling in Shaping Inequality in Academic, Executive Functioning, and Social-Emotional Skills.
Socius 
Marissa E. Thompson, Christina Weiland, Meghan P. McCormick, Catherine Snow, and Jason Sachs

From Pipelines to Pathways in the Study of Academic Progress.
Science 
René F. Kizilcec, Rachel B. Baker, Elizabeth Bruch, Kalena E. Cortes, Laura T. Hamilton, David Nathan Lang, Zachary A. Pardos, Marissa E. Thompson , and Mitchell L. Stevens

Uneven Progress: Recent Trends in Academic Performance Among U.S. School Districts.
American Education Research Journal 
Kaylee T. Matheny *, Marissa E. Thompson*, Carrie Townley Flores*, and Sean F. Reardon

2021

Grade Expectations: The role of first-year grades in predicting the pursuit of STEM majors for first- and continuing-generation students.
The Journal of Higher Education 
Marissa E. Thompson

Studying Undergraduate Course Consideration at Scale.
AERA Open  ● ●
Sorathan Chaturapruek, Tobias Dalberg, Marissa E. Thompson, Sonia Giebel, Monique H. Harrison, Ramesh Johari, Mitchell L. Stevens, and René Kizilcec

2020

The Confidence Gap Predicts the Gender Pay Gap Among STEM Graduates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 
Adina D. Sterling, Marissa E. Thompson, Shiya Wang, Abisola Kusimo, Shannon Gilmartin, and Sheri Sheppard

2019

Entrepreneurial Intent of Engineering and Business Undergraduate Students.
Journal of Engineering Education 
Shannon K. Gilmartin, Marissa E. Thompson, Emily Morton, Helen Chen, Anne Colby, and Sheri D. Sheppard

2016

Bioresorbable silicon electronics for transient spatiotemporal mapping of electrical activity from the cerebral cortex.
Nature Materials 
Ki Jun Yu, Duygu Kuzum, Suk Won Hwang, Bong Hoon Kim, Halvor Juul, Nam Heon Kim, Sang Min Won, Ken Chiang, Michael Trumpis, Andrew G. Richardson, Huanyu Cheng, Hui Fang, Marissa E. Thompson, Hank Bink, Delia Talos, Kyung Jin Seo, Hee Nam Lee, Seung Kyun Kang, Jae Hwan Kim, Jung Yup Lee, Younggang Huang, Frances E. Jensen, Marc A. Dichter, Timothy H. Lucas, Jonathan Viventi, Brian Litt, and John A. Rogers