Emily Rauscher is a professor in the Sociology Department at Brown University, a nonresident scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and a fellow in the American Sociology Association’s Policy Outreach Program. She studies education and inequality, with the goal of learning when and how spending can more effectively improve child well-being and increase equality. Rauscher has received awards for her work, including from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the Spencer Foundation, and the American Educational Research Association. She earned her Ph.D. in sociology from New York University in 2012, master’s degrees from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Southern California, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.