Beth Mattingly
Director of Research on Vulnerable Families
(603) 862-2961
beth.mattingly@unh.edu
curriculum vitae
Beth Mattingly is director of research on vulnerable families at the Carsey Institute. Her interests center on women, children, and family well-being. Her work at the Carsey Institute examines child poverty and how different family policies influence rural, suburban, and urban families and how families adjust their labor force behavior during times of economic strain. She also examines poverty-related issues, how families cope with economic distress, childhood maltreatment, and foster care across states.
Beth has published in academic journals, including Social Forces and Journal of Marriage and Family, and in edited volumes. Her research has explored gender differences within families in the domains of work, parenting, and leisure time. She has published studies that look at gender differences in time use and that examine subjective perceptions of parenting. Beth’s work also considers the consequences of family violence, including both intimate partner violence and child abuse and neglect. She has published work on how responses to partner violence relate to a woman’s risk of subsequent intimate partner assault and is currently working on projects addressing resiliency in maltreated children. Beth has experience analyzing a wide array of complex data sets (e.g., time-use data, Current Population Survey, National Crime Victimization Survey, and the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being). Beth completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Family Research Lab at the University of New Hampshire and received her master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Maryland. She has an undergraduate degree in geography from Dartmouth College and is a 2010-2011 UNH HERS scholarship recipient.