Curriculum Vitae

Kristin Smith is a family demographer at the Carsey Institute and research assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests focus on women’s labor force participation and work and family policy. Smith has examined women’s employment, earnings, and wives’ contributions to overall family economic well-being; how families cope with economic turmoil due to either economic restructuring or recessions; the low-wage caregiving workforce; and workplace flexibility and policy.

Kristin recently published a co-edited book, Economic Restructuring and Family Well-being in Rural America, and her work has been published in Demography, Monthly Labor Review, Family Relations, and elsewhere and has also been reported in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and numerous online and local media outlets, and she has appeared on National Public Radio. Kristin also is a member of the Working Group on Care Work at the Russell Sage Foundation. She worked with the U.S. Census Bureau for seven years as a family demographer, and she has extensive experience analyzing several national data sets (Census 2000, American Community Survey, Survey of Income and Program Participation, the Current Population Survey, and the National Changing Workforce Survey). Her prior experience includes working on international population policy in Francophone Africa. She has a doctorate degree from the University of Maryland, a master of public health degree from Tulane University, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Vermont.