E Rauscher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 20824 |
|---|---|
| NOME | E Rauscher |
| PRENOMES | E |
| SOBRENOME | Rauscher |
| ASSINATURA | RAUSCHER E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Kansas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5384-4667 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Racially motivated hate crime exposure and birth outcomes
Exposure to racially motivated hate crime represents a salient form of structural and interpersonal racism that is associated with detrimental mental and physical health. Although prior research shows that stress during pregnancy can influence birth outcomes, empirical evidence linking hate crime exposure to adverse birth outcomes remains limited. Using National Vital Statistics Birth Data from 1995 to 2020 linked to county-level hate crime data,…
School Spending and Student Achievement
School spending reliably improves student achievement. Stakeholders, researchers, and policymakers now need to shift from asking whether to how money matters. This systematic review of the literature focuses on factors that explain or mediate the relationship between K-12 school spending and student achievement in the United States. We examine literature on whether there are different returns to spending on operations, capital, average teacher sa…
When Money Matters Most
Targeted school funding is a potentially valuable policy lever to increase educational equality by race, ethnicity, and income, but it remains unclear how to target funds most effectively. We use a regression discontinuity approach to compare districts that narrowly passed or failed a school funding election. We use close tax elections in nine states to identify effects of operating funds, and we use close bond elections in eight states to identi…
Unequal Effects of Wildfire Exposure on Infant Health by Maternal Education, 1995–2020
Using National Vital Statistics Birth and Fetal Death Data 1995-2020 linked to county-level information on wildfires, we use variation in wildfire timing to examine how effects of wildfire exposure on infant health vary by maternal education. Results indicate that wildfire exposure increases the likelihood of low birth weight and fetal death, but effects vary by both trimester and maternal education. Mediation analyses suggest the variation by ma…
Racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between parental educational similarity and infant health
State Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health
Along with the late 1980s Medicaid expansion for pregnant women and children, states implemented multiple reforms to reduce administrative burdens and facilitate access to Medicaid and prenatal care. We use National Vital Statistics birth data 1985-1994 and a difference-in-discontinuities approach to compare the effectiveness of these reforms for improving infant health and access to prenatal care. Results indicate that combinations of reforms to…
Learning to Value Girls
Infant sex ratios that differ from the biological norm provide a measure of gender status inequality that is not susceptible to social desirability bias. Ratios may become less biased with educational expansion through reduced preference for male children. Alternatively, bias could increase with education through more access to sex-selective medical technologies. Using National Vital Statistics data on the population of live births in the United …
Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–2017
Recent expansions of child tax, food assistance, and health insurance programs have made American families’ need for a robust social safety net highly evident, while researchers and policymakers continue to debate the best way to support families via the welfare state. How much do children—and which children—benefit from social spending? Using the State-by-State Spending on Kids Dataset, linked to National Vital Statistics System birth data from …
Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement
The equity-efficiency trade-off and cumulative return theories predict larger returns to school spending in areas with higher previous investment in children. Yet it remains unclear how returns to school spending vary across areas by previous investment. Using county-level panel data for 2009-18 from the Stanford Education Data Archive, the Census Finance Survey, and National Vital Statistics, the authors estimate achievement returns to school sp…
The Effects of State-Level Medicaid Coverage on Family Wealth
Jointly financed by the federal government and the states, Medicaid represents the second largest form of public-sector investment in children. Research documents direct positive effects of Medicaid on children's well-being, but little is known about the effects of Medicaid expansions on the wealth of families with children. Using state variation in Medicaid access during the prenatal and infant period, linked to longitudinal data from the childr…
Going Places
Paternal Education and Infant Health
Minority Support
In the context of tight state budgets, local education funding is increasingly important. This article examines the relationship between district-level demographic characteristics and voter support for tax increases to fund the local school district. Using district-level panel data on California school district elections and demographics from 1995 to 2014, we ask the following questions: (1) What is the relationship between demographics and suppo…
Unequal Opportunity Spreaders
Mixed evidence on the relationship between school closure and COVID-19 prevalence could reflect focus on large-scale levels of geography, limited ability to address endogeneity, and demographic variation. Using county-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 data through June 15, 2020, two matching strategies address potential heterogeneity: nearest geographic neighbor and propensity scores. Within nearest neighboring pairs…
Rising inequality of infant health in the U.S
Has infant health inequality narrowed or grown in recent decades? Inequality may have narrowed due to expanded medical insurance coverage and greater knowledge about fetal health. However, greater income inequality may have reduced health for births to the most economically disadvantaged mothers, leading to growing infant health inequality. We use administrative birth certificate data for over 22 million births to examine trends in inequality of …
Delayed Benefits
Contradictory evidence of the relationship between education funding and student achievement could reflect heterogeneous effects by revenue source or student characteristics. This study examines potential heterogeneous effects of a particular type of local revenue-bond funds for capital investments-on achievement by socioeconomic status. Comparing California school districts within a narrow window on either side of the cutoff of voter support req…
Why Who Marries Whom Matters
Educational assortative mating patterns in the U.S. have changed since the 1960s, but we know little about the effects of these patterns on children, particularly on infant health. Rising educational homogamy may alter prenatal contexts through parental stress and resources, with implications for inequality. Using 1969-1994 NVSS birth data and aggregate cohort-state census measures of spousal similarity of education and labor force participation …
The Trafficking Continuum
Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social disparities that make someone vulnerable to trafficking. This project examines human trafficking from a preventive focus, using data from a case study of service providers working with at-risk populations in the Kansas City, MO-KS area. The research team conducted 42 in-depth …
Unequal returns
They will go like I did”
We're not rich, but we're definitely not poor
Examining the relationship between parental educational expectations and a community-based children's savings account program
Marriage Delayed and Equalized
Identifying a causal relationship between education and marital status poses methodological challenges. Using regression discontinuity analyses of U.S. Census data from 1910 and 1930, I estimate effects of early U.S. compulsory schooling laws on marital patterns by gender and race. Results from 1910 suggest that compulsory laws had heterogeneous effects by race and gender, reducing the likelihood of being married only among nonwhite men. Results …
Bounded Mobilities
Plastic and immobile
The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship and Social Attitudes Toward Women
Washington ( ) finds that daughters promote liberal voting (at least with respect to women's issues) among U.S. Congress members and attributes this finding to socialization. However, daughters’ influence could manifest differently for elite politicians and the general citizenry either due to self‐selection or the Trivers‐Willard hypothesis, which suggests that parents invest differently in male and female children depending on their social statu…
Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment
Numerous studies report gene-environment interactions, suggesting that specific alleles have different effects on social outcomes depending on environment. In all these studies, however, environmental conditions are potentially endogenous to unmeasured genetic characteristics. That is, it could be that the observed interaction effects actually reflect underlying genetic tendencies that lead individuals into certain environments. What is critical …
The Trafficking Continuum
Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social disparities that make someone vulnerable to trafficking. This project examines human trafficking from a preventive focus, using data from a case study of service providers working with at-risk populations in the Kansas City, MO-KS area. The research team conducted 42 in-depth …
Does Educational Equality Increase Mobility? Exploiting Nineteenth-Century U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws
Existing evidence of educational effects on intergenerational mobility is associational. This study employs early compulsory schooling laws to approach a causal estimate of the relationship between education and mobility in the context of a large-scale policy change. Using IPUMS Linked Representative Samples (linked census data), regression discontinuity models exploit state differences in the timing of compulsory schooling laws to estimate an in…
From Parents to Children
Once considered the land of opportunity, ostensibly welcoming tired and poor "huddled masses" from other countries, the United States is now a land of strikingly little opportunity.While recent research provided evidence of relatively low mobility in the U.S., difficulties associated with intergenerational data and cross-national comparisons left some room for doubt
Beyond Orchids and Dandelions
The persistence of behaviorally deleterious genes in the human population poses an interesting question for population genetics: If certain alleles at these loci are deleterious, why have they survived in the population? We consider evidence for phenotypic capacitance and/or frequency-dependent selection for an allele that has been putatively shown to have negative associations with human behaviors (the "short" 5-HTT promoter region allele) yet h…
State Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health
Along with the late 1980s Medicaid expansion for pregnant women and children, states implemented multiple reforms to reduce administrative burdens and facilitate access to Medicaid and prenatal care. We use National Vital Statistics birth data 1985-1994 and a difference-in-discontinuities approach to compare the effectiveness of these reforms for improving infant health and access to prenatal care. Results indicate that combinations of reforms to…
We're not rich, but we're definitely not poor
Minority Support
In the context of tight state budgets, local education funding is increasingly important. This article examines the relationship between district-level demographic characteristics and voter support for tax increases to fund the local school district. Using district-level panel data on California school district elections and demographics from 1995 to 2014, we ask the following questions: (1) What is the relationship between demographics and suppo…
Delayed Benefits
Contradictory evidence of the relationship between education funding and student achievement could reflect heterogeneous effects by revenue source or student characteristics. This study examines potential heterogeneous effects of a particular type of local revenue-bond funds for capital investments-on achievement by socioeconomic status. Comparing California school districts within a narrow window on either side of the cutoff of voter support req…
Producing adulthood
Youth Early Employment and Behavior Problems
We examine the relationship between early youth employment and behavior problems and ask whether this relationship differs by race, job quality, or work intensity. Drawing on Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we depict the employment patterns of American youth aged 12 through 18 and test conflicting hypotheses about mediating mechanisms through which youth employment shapes children's behavior. Results show that employment is associated with f…
Bounded Mobilities
Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Educational Assortative Mating
Modernization theory predicts that rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests that effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors, such as economic development. Using log-linear and log-multiplicative models of male household heads ages 36 to 75 in the 1940 U.S. census data—the first U.S. census with educational attainment information—I investigate how edu…
The Role of Privacy in Families Created Through Assisted Reproductive Technology
The number of families created through the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has grown throughout the past decade. Families created through ART face many unique communication challenges both within the immediate family and with others outside the family, such as issues with privacy and disclosure. Whether parents choose to disclose genetic information to the child, to other immediate family members, or to others outside the family are…
Social Spending and Educational Gaps in Infant Health in the United States, 1998–2017
Recent expansions of child tax, food assistance, and health insurance programs have made American families’ need for a robust social safety net highly evident, while researchers and policymakers continue to debate the best way to support families via the welfare state. How much do children—and which children—benefit from social spending? Using the State-by-State Spending on Kids Dataset, linked to National Vital Statistics System birth data from …
Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement
The equity-efficiency trade-off and cumulative return theories predict larger returns to school spending in areas with higher previous investment in children. Yet it remains unclear how returns to school spending vary across areas by previous investment. Using county-level panel data for 2009-18 from the Stanford Education Data Archive, the Census Finance Survey, and National Vital Statistics, the authors estimate achievement returns to school sp…
The Effects of State-Level Medicaid Coverage on Family Wealth
Jointly financed by the federal government and the states, Medicaid represents the second largest form of public-sector investment in children. Research documents direct positive effects of Medicaid on children's well-being, but little is known about the effects of Medicaid expansions on the wealth of families with children. Using state variation in Medicaid access during the prenatal and infant period, linked to longitudinal data from the childr…
Going Places
Unequal Opportunity Spreaders
Mixed evidence on the relationship between school closure and COVID-19 prevalence could reflect focus on large-scale levels of geography, limited ability to address endogeneity, and demographic variation. Using county-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 data through June 15, 2020, two matching strategies address potential heterogeneity: nearest geographic neighbor and propensity scores. Within nearest neighboring pairs…
Unequal returns
Examining the relationship between parental educational expectations and a community-based children's savings account program
Plastic and immobile
Unequal Effects of Wildfire Exposure on Infant Health by Maternal Education, 1995–2020
Using National Vital Statistics Birth and Fetal Death Data 1995-2020 linked to county-level information on wildfires, we use variation in wildfire timing to examine how effects of wildfire exposure on infant health vary by maternal education. Results indicate that wildfire exposure increases the likelihood of low birth weight and fetal death, but effects vary by both trimester and maternal education. Mediation analyses suggest the variation by ma…
Learning to Value Girls
Infant sex ratios that differ from the biological norm provide a measure of gender status inequality that is not susceptible to social desirability bias. Ratios may become less biased with educational expansion through reduced preference for male children. Alternatively, bias could increase with education through more access to sex-selective medical technologies. Using National Vital Statistics data on the population of live births in the United …
Producing adulthood
The Role of Privacy in Families Created Through Assisted Reproductive Technology
The number of families created through the use of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has grown throughout the past decade. Families created through ART face many unique communication challenges both within the immediate family and with others outside the family, such as issues with privacy and disclosure. Whether parents choose to disclose genetic information to the child, to other immediate family members, or to others outside the family are…
The Effect of Daughters on Partisanship and Social Attitudes Toward Women
Washington ( ) finds that daughters promote liberal voting (at least with respect to women's issues) among U.S. Congress members and attributes this finding to socialization. However, daughters’ influence could manifest differently for elite politicians and the general citizenry either due to self‐selection or the Trivers‐Willard hypothesis, which suggests that parents invest differently in male and female children depending on their social statu…
Beyond Orchids and Dandelions
The persistence of behaviorally deleterious genes in the human population poses an interesting question for population genetics: If certain alleles at these loci are deleterious, why have they survived in the population? We consider evidence for phenotypic capacitance and/or frequency-dependent selection for an allele that has been putatively shown to have negative associations with human behaviors (the "short" 5-HTT promoter region allele) yet h…
Genetic Interactions with Prenatal Social Environment
Numerous studies report gene-environment interactions, suggesting that specific alleles have different effects on social outcomes depending on environment. In all these studies, however, environmental conditions are potentially endogenous to unmeasured genetic characteristics. That is, it could be that the observed interaction effects actually reflect underlying genetic tendencies that lead individuals into certain environments. What is critical …
From Parents to Children
Once considered the land of opportunity, ostensibly welcoming tired and poor "huddled masses" from other countries, the United States is now a land of strikingly little opportunity.While recent research provided evidence of relatively low mobility in the U.S., difficulties associated with intergenerational data and cross-national comparisons left some room for doubt
Youth Early Employment and Behavior Problems
We examine the relationship between early youth employment and behavior problems and ask whether this relationship differs by race, job quality, or work intensity. Drawing on Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we depict the employment patterns of American youth aged 12 through 18 and test conflicting hypotheses about mediating mechanisms through which youth employment shapes children's behavior. Results show that employment is associated with f…
Educational Expansion and Occupational Change
During the US Industrial Revolution, educational expansion may have created skilled jobs through innovation and skill upgrading or reduced skilled jobs by mechanizing production. Such arguments contradict classic sociological work that treats education as a sorting mechanism, allocating individuals to fixed occupations. I capitalize on state differences in the timing of compulsory school attendance laws to ask whether raising the minimum level of…
Effects of Early U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws on Educational Assortative Mating
Modernization theory predicts that rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests that effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors, such as economic development. Using log-linear and log-multiplicative models of male household heads ages 36 to 75 in the 1940 U.S. census data—the first U.S. census with educational attainment information—I investigate how edu…
Sibling genes as environment
The Relationship between Income and Net Worth in the United States
Is there a reciprocal relationship between household income and net worth and does that relationship depend on initial income? Using cross-lagged panel models of household income and net worth data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the authors compare the income-wealth relationships of high- and low-income households from 1989 to 2011. Adjusting for demographic differences, the authors find a reciprocal relationship between income and weal…
Does Educational Equality Increase Mobility? Exploiting Nineteenth-Century U.S. Compulsory Schooling Laws
Existing evidence of educational effects on intergenerational mobility is associational. This study employs early compulsory schooling laws to approach a causal estimate of the relationship between education and mobility in the context of a large-scale policy change. Using IPUMS Linked Representative Samples (linked census data), regression discontinuity models exploit state differences in the timing of compulsory schooling laws to estimate an in…
They will go like I did”
We're not rich, but we're definitely not poor
Examining the relationship between parental educational expectations and a community-based children's savings account program
Marriage Delayed and Equalized
Identifying a causal relationship between education and marital status poses methodological challenges. Using regression discontinuity analyses of U.S. Census data from 1910 and 1930, I estimate effects of early U.S. compulsory schooling laws on marital patterns by gender and race. Results from 1910 suggest that compulsory laws had heterogeneous effects by race and gender, reducing the likelihood of being married only among nonwhite men. Results …
Bounded Mobilities
Plastic and immobile
The Trafficking Continuum
Much of the research on human trafficking focuses on the prosecution of traffickers and protection of survivors after the crime has occurred. Less is known about the social disparities that make someone vulnerable to trafficking. This project examines human trafficking from a preventive focus, using data from a case study of service providers working with at-risk populations in the Kansas City, MO-KS area. The research team conducted 42 in-depth …
Unequal returns
Why Who Marries Whom Matters
Educational assortative mating patterns in the U.S. have changed since the 1960s, but we know little about the effects of these patterns on children, particularly on infant health. Rising educational homogamy may alter prenatal contexts through parental stress and resources, with implications for inequality. Using 1969-1994 NVSS birth data and aggregate cohort-state census measures of spousal similarity of education and labor force participation …
Rising inequality of infant health in the U.S
Has infant health inequality narrowed or grown in recent decades? Inequality may have narrowed due to expanded medical insurance coverage and greater knowledge about fetal health. However, greater income inequality may have reduced health for births to the most economically disadvantaged mothers, leading to growing infant health inequality. We use administrative birth certificate data for over 22 million births to examine trends in inequality of …
Delayed Benefits
Contradictory evidence of the relationship between education funding and student achievement could reflect heterogeneous effects by revenue source or student characteristics. This study examines potential heterogeneous effects of a particular type of local revenue-bond funds for capital investments-on achievement by socioeconomic status. Comparing California school districts within a narrow window on either side of the cutoff of voter support req…
The Effects of State-Level Medicaid Coverage on Family Wealth
Jointly financed by the federal government and the states, Medicaid represents the second largest form of public-sector investment in children. Research documents direct positive effects of Medicaid on children's well-being, but little is known about the effects of Medicaid expansions on the wealth of families with children. Using state variation in Medicaid access during the prenatal and infant period, linked to longitudinal data from the childr…
Going Places
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