Tamkinat Rauf

My research examines disparities in mental, physical, and material well-being. I am interested in both how these inequalities are influenced by macrosocial forces (including economic and political institutions), as well as how they are generated in proximate contexts via the interplay of biological and social psychological processes. I use a variety of analytical approaches in my work, including panel data methods, sociogenomics, and survey experiments. Some of my recent and ongoing work looks at the relationship between income and mental health, linkages between genetic and social causes of depression, and how scholarship about well-being and happiness influences political preferences about inequality.  

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Health & the Life Course; Demography of Inequality; Biodemography 

Selected Publications:

Rauf, Tamkinat, and Jeremy Freese. “Genetic influences on depression and selection into adverse life experiences.” Social Science & Medicine (2024): 116633.

Rauf, Tamkinat. “Differential sensitivity to adversity by income: Evidence from a study of Bereavement.” Social Science Research 115 (2023): 102920.

Rauf, Tamkinat, and Jeremy Freese. “Happiness Scholarship and Redistributive Preferences.” Social Psychology Quarterly (2023): 01902725231189258.