Emily Rauscher
Biography
Emily Rauscher is a Professor in the Sociology Department at Brown University and faculty affiliate of the Population Studies and Training Center, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, and the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy.
Research
Rauscher studies education and inequality. Current work focuses on the effects of school spending to learn when and how spending can more effectively improve child well-being and increase equality. Returns to school investments go beyond the individual to benefit groups and societies. Her work documents these social benefits of educational investments, including more equal achievement and attainment, improved occupational opportunities, more equal marital patterns and timing, health benefits, and in some cases greater intergenerational equality. Her work has received support from the Spencer Foundation, the American Educational Research Association, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Gilead Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Academy of Education.
Publications
Rauscher, Emily and Xinyan (Joyce) Cao. 2024. “Unequal Effects of Wildfire Exposure on Infant Health by Maternal Education, 1995-2020.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 10(1):255-274. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48757528
Rangel, David and Emily Rauscher. 2024. “Racial and Ethnic Variation in the Relationship between Parental Educational Similarity and Infant Health.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 89:100887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100887
Rauscher, Emily and Ailish Burns. 2023. “State Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(4):32-60. https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2023.9.4.02
Rauscher, Emily and Yifan Shen. 2022. “Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending Is Efficient.” American Journal of Sociology 128(1): 189-223. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/719956
Rauscher, Emily and Haoming Song. 2022. “Learning to Value Girls: Greater Equality of Infant Sex Ratios at Higher Levels of Parental Education.” Demography 59(3): 9968420. https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-9968420
Jackson, Margot, Emily Rauscher, and Ailish Burns. 2022. “Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998-2017.” Demography 59(5):1873-1909.
Teaching
SOC 1873D Inequality of Infant Health
SOC 2020 Multivariate Statistical Methods II
SOC 1100 Introductory Statistics for Social Research
SOC 0300N Social Inequality: Change and Continuity in the US
SOC 2961E Sociology of Education
SOC 2460 Sociology Paper Writing Seminar