Publications
The Carsey Institute builds knowledge for families and communities by providing data and analysis in engaging, accessible publications. The Institute is currently producing reports, policy briefs, and fact sheets on interdisciplinary research that addresses the challenges facing Americans today.
Carsey Institute publications provide historical perspective, incorporate the most recent data available, and explore policy implications. Community case studies illustrate critical challenges and useful strategies for rural areas and the nation as a whole.
Hard copies of our publications are available by request through our Communications Department. Please e-mail Carsey.communications@unh.edu or call (603) 862-2821.
Coming Soon
- Coos County Youth Panel: Community Attachment, by Cesar Rebellon
- Growing Number of Minority Children, by Kenneth M. Johnson and Daniel Lichter
- Marriage and Divorce in Rural America, by Marybeth J. Mattingly
- Foster Care Policies, by Marybeth J. Mattingly and Melissa Wells
- Hard-to-Count Census in Rural Areas, by William O'Hare
- Substance Abuse Programs in New Hampshire's North Country, by Meghan Mills
- Out-of-School Time Matters, by Erin Hiley Sharp
2010
National
- Low Income and Impoverished Families Pay Disproportionately More for Child Care (Smith, 2010, Policy Brief No. 16)
- Rural Families with a Child Abuse Report are More Likely Headed by a Single Parent and Endure Economic and Family Stress (Mattingly, 2010, Issue Brief No. 10)
- Federal Child Nutrition Programs are Important to Rural Households (Wauchope, 2010, Issue Brief No. 11)
New England
2009
National
- With Less Migration, Natural Increase is Now More Important to State Growth (Johnson, 2009, Fact Sheet No. 17)
- Students in Rural Schools Have Limited Access to Advanced Mathematics Courses (Graham, 2009, Issue Brief No. 7)
- Increased Reliance on Wives as Breadwinners during the First Year of the Recession (Smith, 2009, Issue Brief No. 9)
- Rural and Urban Children Have Lower Rates of Health Insurance Coverage and are More Often Covered by Public Plans (Mattingly and Stransky, 2009, Issue Brief No. 8)
- Rural America and the South Have the Highest Percent of Veterans with Service-Related Disabilities (Mattingly and Stransky, 2009, Fact Sheet No. 16)
- Regional Young Child Poverty in 2008 (Mattingly, 2009, Issue Brief No. 6)
- Family-friendly Policies for Rural Working Mothers (Glauber, 2009, Policy Brief No. 15)
- Unemployment Insurance: A Safety Net for Women and Children (Mattingly and Dugan, 2009, Fact Sheet No. 15)
- 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)
- Rural Workers More Likely to Work Nontraditional Shifts (Saenz, 2009, Issue Brief No. 5)
- Rural Workers Would Benefit from Unemployment Insurance Modernizations (Shattuck, 2009, Policy Brief No. 13)
- 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)
- The Promise and Responsibility of Community Finance (Seidman and Huelsman, 2009, Policy Brief No. 11)
- Financial Innovations Roundtable: Developing Practical Solutions to Scale up Integrated Community Development Strategies (Swack and Giszpenc, eds., 2009, Report No. 8)
New England
- New Hampshire's Population Exceeds Maine's for the First Time in 200 Years (Johnson, 2009, Fact Sheet No. 3)
- Student Discipline in New Hampshire Schools (Wauchope, 2009, Co-publication with the Children's Alliance of New Hampshire)
- Demographic Trends in the Manchester and Nashua Region of New Hampshire (Johnson and Macieski, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 16)
- Home Health Care Workers in New Hampshire: Keeping NH Elders in Their Homes (Smith, 2009, New England Policy Brief No. 2)
- The State of Working New Hampshire 2009 (Churilla, 2009, New England Issue Brief No. 15)
- 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)
2008
National
- Working Hard for the Money: Trends in Women's Employment 1970-2007 (Smith, 2008, Reports on Rural America, Volume 1, Number 5)
- Grey Gold: Do Older In-Migrants Benefit Rural Communities? (Glasgow and Brown, 2008, Policy Brief No. 10)
- 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)
- Measures and Methods: Four Tenets for Rural Economic Development in the New Economy (Brown-Graham and Lambe, 2008, Policy Brief No. 9)
- Population Growth in New Hispanic Destinations (Johnson and Lichter, 2008, Policy Brief No. 8)
- Religion, Politics, and the Environment in Rural America (Dillon and Henly, 2008, Issue Brief No. 3)
- 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)
- A Profile of Latinos in Rural America (Saenz, 2008, Fact Sheet No. 10)
New England
- Many New Hampshire Jobs Do Not Pay a Livable Wage (Kenyon and Churilla, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 10)
- Many New Voters Make the Granite State One to Watch in November (Johnson, Scala, and Smith, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 9)
- Profile of New Hampshire's Foreign-born Population (Gittell and Lord, 2008, New England Issue Brief No. 8)
- 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)
2007
National
- 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 Americans Continue to Account for Disproportionate High Share of U.S. Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan (O'Hare and Bishop, 2007, Fact Sheet No. 9)
- Rural Children Increasingly Rely on Medicaid and State Child Health Insurance Programs for Medical Care (O'Hare, 2007 Policy Brief No. 6)
- Biofueling Rural Development (Kleinschmit, 2007, Policy Brief No. 5)
- 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 Workers Would Benefit More Than Urban Workers from an Increase in the Federal Minimum Wage (O'Hare, 2007, Fact Sheet No. 4)
New England
- The Changing Faces of New Hampshire (Johnson, 2007, Reports on New England, Volume 1, Number 1)
- New Faces at the Polls for New Hampshire Presidential Primary (Johnson, 2007, New England Fact Sheet No. 2)
- The State of Working NH 2007 (Churilla, 2007, New England Issue Brief No. 5)
- New England Has the Highest Increase in Income Disparity in the Nation (Gittell and Rudokas, 2007, New England Issue Brief No. 4)
- 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)
2006
National
- New Immigrant Settlements in Rural America (Jensen, 2006, Reports on Rural America, Volume 1, Number 3)
- Substance Abuse in Rural and Small Town America (Van Gundy, 2006, Reports on Rural America, Volume 1, Number 2)
- Demographic Trends in Rural and Small Town America (Johnson, 2006, Reports on Rural America, Volume 1, Number 1)
- Subprime and Predatory Lending in Rural America (2006, Policy Brief No. 4)
- 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)
- U.S. Rural Soldiers Account for a Disproportionately High Share of Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan (O'Hare and Bishop, 2006, Fact Sheet No. 3)
- Rural America Depends on the Food Stamp Program to Make Ends Meet (Smith and Salant, 2005, Policy Brief No. 1)
- Values and Religion in Rural America (Dillon and Savage, 2006, Issue Brief No. 1)
- Changing Church in the South (Ardery, 2006, Essays on Rural America)
- Rural Voting in the 2004 Election (Hamilton, 2006, Fact Sheet No. 2)
- Child Poverty in Rural America (O'Hare and Savage, 2006, Fact Sheet No. 1)