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Biography
Emily Rauscher is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Brown University. Her research seeks to understand intergenerational inequality with a focus on education and health. She uses quantitative methods and causal inference techniques to investigate these areas and to identify policies that could increase equality of opportunity. She received her BA from Wesleyan University, Master’s degrees from USC and Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD in Sociology from New York University.
Publications
- Emily Rauscher, Ailish Burns. Unequal Opportunity Spreaders: Higher COVID-19 Deaths with Later School Closure in the United States.
- Corinne Schwarz, Daniel Alvord, Dorothy Daley, Megha Ramaswamy, Emily Rauscher, Hannah Britton. The Trafficking Continuum: Service Providers’ Perspectives on Vulnerability, Exploitation, and Trafficking.
- William Elliott, Emily Rauscher, Ilsung Nam. Unequal Returns: Intragenerational Asset Accumulation Differs by Net Worth in Early Adulthood.
- Emily Rauscher, Terri Friedline, Mahasweta Banerjee. We're Not Rich, But We're Definitely Not Poor: Young Children's Conceptions of Social Class.
- Terri Friedline, Emily Rauscher, Stacia West, Barbara Phipps, Nadzeya Kardash, Karin Chang, Meghan Ecker-Lyster. ‘They Will Go Like I Did’: How Parents Think about College for Their Young Children in the Context of Rising Costs.
