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John Brown University

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16 h-index 59 pubs 930 cited

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Dr. Emily Rauscher is a Professor at John Brown University whose work addresses inequality across generations and within the educational system. Her research portfolio includes studies of school choice impacts, higher education outcomes, and the effects of urban segregation. Rauscher's work often employs an interdisciplinary lens, as demonstrated by publications analyzing the variable relationship between school spending and student achievement and the effects of state-level Medicaid coverage on family wealth. Her work also examines health disparities; for example, she has investigated how state approaches to Medicaid eligibility simplification relate to infant health inequality and how social spending impacts educational gaps. Rauscher has also studied the impact of school closures on COVID-19 deaths.

Her primary research focus is on the intersection of education, health, and social policy in shaping equitable outcomes.

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h-index: 16
Publications: 59
Citations: 930

Selected Publications

Slow Progress: School Finance Reforms and Racial Disparities in Funding (2025) DOI
Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve, by LiuRoseann. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 197 pp. $22.50 paper. ISBN: 9780226832715. (2025) DOI
State Approaches to Simplify Medicaid Eligibility and Implications for Inequality of Infant Health (2023) DOI
Variation in the Relationship between School Spending and Achievement: Progressive Spending Is Efficient (2022) DOI
The Effects of State-Level Medicaid Coverage on Family Wealth (2021) DOI