New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies

Presentation: Expanded Gambling and Manchester
A presentation by Center Director Steve Norton exploring to potetial impacts of expanded gambling in NH on the city of Manchester: April, 12, 2013. ...Read More

Presentation: Understanding Medicaid Expansion in NH
This is the presentation on Medicaid expansion delivered by Center Director Steve Norton to a joint hearing of the House Finance (Division III) and Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs committees, March 7, ...Read More

Financing NH's Cities and Towns: 2013 Update
Though signs of economic recovery continue to sprout up – increased rates of job creation in some sectors, greater stability in the real estate market, and modest upticks in tax collections – the ...Read More

Now accepting applications for Summer 2013 intern
Doug Hall Memorial Internship, Summer 2013 The New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, located in downtown Concord, NH, is currently seeking applications for the Doug Hall Memorial Internship for Summer 2013. The intern ...Read More

Expanded Gambling in New Hampshire: An update on options
This paper presents the results of an update to our model of the potential impact of expanded gambling on New Hampshire. While several assumptions in the state’s gambling debate have changed in this ...Read More

Health and Equity in New Hampshire: 2013 Report Card
New Hampshire’s first ever Health and Equity Report Card reflecting data to measure key health disparities among the state’s racial, ethnic, and linguistic minority populations. Our goal is to provoke questions, illustrate trends ...Read More

Presentation: Expanded gambling in New Hampshire
Center Director Steve Norton's presentation to the Senate Ways & Means Committee on SB 152, a bill to legalize expanded gambling in New Hampshire. ...Read More

Presentation: Medicaid expansion and cost-shifting
Center Director Steve Norton's presentation to the BIA on the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid Expansions, their coverage implications and the potential impact on the question of cost-shifting, Feb. 15, 2013. ...Read More

Student-Centered Learning in NH: An Overview and Analysis
This paper, funded in part by the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, is an effort to define “student-centered learning” as it is now being implemented in New Hampshire high schools; describe some ...Read More

Getting What We Pay For? Health Care Spending in NH
By many measures, health care in New Hampshire is expensive. The state spends more per person on health care, and health costs consume a greater share of the state Gross Domestic Product, than ...Read More

Policy Note: State Revenue Forecast, 2014-2015
The coming six months in the State House will be largely devoted to the crafting of the next two-year state budget. And the foundation of this process will be the estimates for state ...Read More

Gambling in New Hampshire: Jan. 2013 Update
Center Director Steve Norton and Economist Dennis Delay presented the Center's updated model on the potential impacts of expanded gambling on New Hampshire to the House Ways and Means Committee, January 16, 2013. ...Read More

Measuring New Hampshire in 2013
The coming year promises a long list of weighty policy debates in New Hampshire: a new round of state budget negotiations, possible expansion of the Medicaid program, and continued uncertainty about the state ...Read More

New Hampshire Economic Outlook December 2012
Dennis Delay, Center Economist and New Hampshire Forecast Manager for the New England Economic Partnership, noted that New Hampshire’s job recovery continues, but has been a disappointment. “In prior recoveries, New Hampshire’s rate of ...Read More

Aging and the Public Long-Term-Care System
Steve Norton’s presentation to a convening of leaders in long term care and aging policy summit on the implications of aging for the long term care system. A primary focus of ...Read More

From Tailwind to Headwind: NH's Shifting Economic Trends
For several decades, New Hampshire has stood out as an economic anomaly in the Northeast. With a highly-educated workforce, high rates of in-migration and a high median per-capita income, New Hampshire boasted a ...Read More

What is New Hampshire? 2012 edition
Welcome to the 2012 edition of "What is New Hampshire?", the Center's annual compilation of graphs, data and analysis on the people, strengths and challenges of the state. Click the above link to ...Read More

Executive Compensation at NH's Non-Profit Hospitals
The Center examines the process and levels of compensation in recent years at the state's 23 non-profit hospital systems, with comparisons to other states in New England and an analysis of how executive ...Read More

Hospital Prices, Market Structure and Cost Shifting
Our most recent research finds that variation in prices paid by health insurance companies to hospitals in New Hampshire are not explained by differences in the quality of care, the complexity of the ...Read More

Crime in New Hampshire, 2011
New Hampshire has not published a comprehensive annual crime statistics report since the one released by the New Hampshire Department of Safety in 1993. The Center is publishing this report to assist policymakers ...Read More

NH's Silver Tsunami: Aging and the Health care system
Aging in New Hampshire Presentation - with audio New Hampshire’s aging population will play a major role in shaping health care spending in coming decades. By the year 2020, the state’s shift towards an ...Read More

Census 2010: Mapping New Hampshire
New figures released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau add context to our understanding of the demographic forces shaping New Hampshire. The following maps, prepared by Center staff, illustrate a handful of those ...Read More