Children, Youth, and Families

Research Experts

	Mil Duncan Carsey Institute Director Rural poverty Rural communities
	Ellen Cohn Faculty Fellow Youth delinquency Legal socialization Race and justice
	Kristi Gozjolko Research Assistant Work Family Gender inequality
	Suzanne Graham Faculty Fellow Quantitative methods Mathematics education
	Beth Mattingly Family Demographer child poverty child abuse family dynamics
	Meghan Mills Nordblom Fellow Mental health Substance abuse
	Catherine Moran Research Associate Work and economic security Health and illness
	Cesar Rebellon Faculty Fellow Juvenile crime Juvenile delinquency
	Kristin Smith Family Demographer Women and work Work and family policy Family economic security
	Erin Hiley Sharp Faculty Fellow Vulnerable youth Youth panel study
	Nena Stracuzzi Assistant Research Professor Diet-related health Family and parenting Women and work
	Corinna Tucker Faculty Fellow Adolescent relationships in families
	Heather Turner Faculty Fellow Violence and victimization of children Mental health of rural single mothers
	Karen Van Gundy Faculty Fellow Substance abuse Cognitive development Youth behavior
	Sally Ward Senior Faculty Advisor Affordable food in rural communities Social program evaluation NH Healthy Kids
	Barbara Wauchope Research Associate Professor Childhood nutrition Obesity Low-income and at-risk families
	Melissa Wells Faculty Fellow Adolescent victimization Foster care Child welfare

Overview

The Carsey Institute improves understanding of how economic changes and social policies affect families and children, with special attention to federal policies. We work to help children, youth, and families achieve economic success and build resilient community institutions by:

• Conducting research that informs effective policies and programs and identifies the challenges and opportunities that workers and their families face;
• Building understanding by making data and analysis on critical topics available to policy makers, community development practitioners, researchers, and the general public; and,
• Building capacity for policy engagement by working with policy advocates and regional leaders to develop non-profit capabilities, support and facilitate collaboration, and generate comprehensive and strategic approaches to these issues.

Publications

National

• Regional Young Child Poverty in 2008 (Mattingly, 2009, Issue Brief No. 6)
• The Forgotten Fifth: Child Poverty in Rural America (O'Hare, 2009, Report No. 10)
• The New, Longer Road to Adulthood: Schooling, Work, and Idleness among Rural Youth (Snyder, McLaughlin, and Coleman-Jensen, 2009, Report No. 9)
• Rural Children are More Likely to Live in Cohabiting-Couple Households (O'Hare, Manning, Porter, Lyons, 2009, Policy Brief No. 14)
• Forty-three Percent of Rural Families Can Claim a Larger Credit with EITC Expansion (Mattingly, 2009, Policy Brief No. 12)
• Seventy-eight Percent of Working Rural Families to Receive Full Making Work Pay Tax Credit (Mattingly, 2009, Fact Sheet No. 14)
• Child Tax Credit Expansion Increases Number of Families Eligible for a Refund (Mattingly, 2009, Issue Brief No. 4)
• Working Hard for the Money: Trends in Women's Employment 1970-2007 (Smith, 2008, Reports on Rural America, Volume 1, Number 5)
• Rural Children Now Less Likely to Live in Married Couple Families (O'Hare and Churilla, 2008, Fact Sheet No. 13)
• Concentrated Rural Poverty and the Geography of Exclusion (Lichter and Parisi, 2008, Policy Brief) (copublished with Rural Realities)
• Children in Central Cities and Rural Communities Experience High Rates of Poverty (Savage, 2008, Fact Sheet No. 12)
• Urban and Rural Children Experience Similar Rates of Low Income and Poverty (Churilla, 2008, Issue Brief No. 2)
• Place Matters: Challenges and Opportunities in Four Rural Americas (Hamilton, Hamilton, Duncan, and Colocousis, 2008, Reports on Rural America, Volume 1, Number 4)
• Rural Youth are More Likely to be Idle (Snyder and McLaughlin, 2008, Fact Sheet No. 11)
• Rural America in the 21st Century (Report to the National Rural Assembly, 2007)
• Low Wages Prevalent in Direct Care and Child Care Workforce (Smith and Baughman, 2007, Policy Brief No. 7)
• Rural Children Increasingly Rely on Medicaid and State Child Health Insurance Programs for Medical Care (O'Hare, 2007 Policy Brief No. 6)
• EITC is Vital for Working-Poor Families in Rural America (O'Hare and Kneebone, 2007, Fact Sheet No. 8)
• Employment Rates Higher Among Rural Mothers Than Urban Mothers (Smith, 2007, Fact Sheet No. 7)
• Child Poverty High in Rural America (O'Hare and Savage, 2007, Fact Sheet No. 6)
• Food Stamp and School Lunch Programs Alleviate Food Insecurity in Rural America (Smith and Savage, 2007, Fact Sheet No. 5)
• Rural Families Choose Home-Based Child Care for Their School-Aged Children (Smith, 2006, Policy Brief No. 3)
• Low-Skill Workers in Rural America Face Permanent Job Loss (Galsmeier and Salant, 2006, Policy Brief No. 2)
• Rural America Depends on the Food Stamp Program to Make Ends Meet (Smith and Salant, 2005, Policy Brief No. 1)
• Child Poverty in Rural America (O'Hare and Savage, 2006, Fact Sheet No. 1)

New England

• Student Discipline in New Hampshire Schools (Wauchope, 2009, co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire)
• Stay or Leave Coos County? Parents' Messages Matter (Tucker, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 14)
• Paid Sick Time Helps Workers Balance Work and Family (Smith, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 13)
• Navigating the Teen Years: Promise and Peril for Northern New Hampshire Youth (Shattuck, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 12)
• Youth Aspirations and Sense of Place in a Changing Rural Economy: The Coos Youth Study (Stracuzzi, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 11)
• The State of Coos County: Local Perspectives on Community and Change (Colocousis, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 7)
• The Changing Faces of New England (Johnson, 2008, Reports on New England, Volume 1, Number 2)
• The Changing Faces of New Hampshire (Johnson, 2007, Reports on New England, Volume 1, Number 1)
• Children's Health Insurance in New Hampshire: An Analysis of New Hampshire Health Kids (Ward, Savage, and Stracuzzi, 2007, New England Policy Brief No. 1)
• Low-Income Families in New Hampshire (Churilla, 2006, New England Issue Brief No. 3)
  

Selected current projects

Tracking Change in the North Country - youth panel study

See all works in progress

 

Useful Web site resources

• Children's Alliance of New Hampshire