Subjective wellbeing & depression
Rauf, Tamkinat and Jeremy Freese. 2024. “Genetic Influences on Depression and Selection into Adverse Life Experiences.” Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116633
This paper shows that rGE (gene-environment correlation) in depression for negative life experiences that are considered dependent on a person's own behaviors.
Rauf, Tamkinat. 2023. “Differential Sensitivity to Adversity by Income: Evidence from a Study of Bereavement.” Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102920
This paper shows that higher-income individuals experience a greater change in depressive symptoms following the death of a loved one compared to low-income individuals; explores mechanisms of higher-reactivity among high-income individuals.
Rauf, Tamkinat. 2023. “Mental Health Effects of Income over the Adult Life Course.” Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231231186072
This paper uses genetic instrumental variables to study the effect of income at three different stages in adulthood.
Rauf, Tamkinat. 2021. “Getting a Job, Again: New Evidence Against Subjective Well-being Scarring.” Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa086
This paper shows that psychological well-being rebounds to baseline levels after transitions from employment-unemployment-reemployment.
Rauf, Tamkinat. 2023. “The Inequalities of Wellbeing & Income.” PhD Dissertation, Stanford University. https://purl.stanford.edu/zx439tk2560
Social determinants of health
Torche, Florencia and Tamkinat Rauf. 2025. “Effects of Political Context on Birth Outcomes Across Racial & Ethnic Subgroups in the United States.” Socius. [Forthcoming]
Torche, Florencia and Tamkinat Rauf. 2021. “The Political Context and Infant Health in the United States.” American Sociological Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224211000710
Torche, Florencia, and Tamkinat Rauf. 2021. “Transition to Fatherhood and the Health of Men.” Journal of Marriage and Family. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12732
Attitudes & preferences
Rauf, Tamkinat and Jeremy Freese. 2024. “Happiness Scholarship and Redistributive Preferences.” Social Psychology Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/01902725231189258
This paper shows that exposure to information about a causal income-happiness link increases support for redistributive policies when framed negatively (i.e., "money decreases unhappiness") vs. positively ("money buys happiness").
Rauf, Tamkinat. 2021. “How College Makes Liberals (Or Conservatives).” Socius. https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023120982435
This paper shows that changes in political identities during the course of college are influenced by the political composition of peer networks.
Open science & metascience
Rauf, Tamkinat, Jan Gerrit Voelkel, James Druckman, and Jeremy Freese. 2025. “An Audit of Social Science Survey Experiments”. Public Opinion Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaf052
Freese, Jeremy, Tamkinat Rauf, and Jan Gerrit Voelkel. 2022. “Advances in Transparency and Reproducibility in the Social Sciences.” Social Science Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102770
Salganik, Matt, Ian Lundberg, Alexander Kindel, … Tamkinat Rauf… Sara McLanahan. 2020. “Measuring the Predictability of Life Outcomes with a Scientific Mass Collaboration". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915006117