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SELECTED INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS:

Marque-Luisa Miringoff and Sandra Opdycke, "The Arts in a Time of Recession," International Journal of the Arts in Society, vol. 4, no. 5 (2010), 140-168.

Social Health of the States 2008 (2008) [earlier editions: 2001 and 2003]

Marque-Luisa Miringoff and Sandra Opdycke, America’s Social Health: Putting Social Issues Back on the Public Agenda (M.E. Sharpe, 2008)

The Social State of Connecticut (annual, 1994-2005).

The Social Report 2003: Assessing the Progress of America by Monitoring the Well-Being of its People [earlier edition: 2001].

Arts, Culture and the Social Health of the Nation 2005 [earlier edition: 2003].

The Index of Social Health (prepared annually since 1987).

How America Has Changed: Key Findings from the National Social Survey - America’s Income Problems are Worsening (2002)

Sandra Opdycke, “The Community Indicators Movement and Social Reporting,” Indicators: The Journal of Social Health, vol. 1, no. 4 (Fall  2002).

Marc Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Miringoff, and Sandra Opdycke, “The Inequality of the States’ Social Health,” Indicators: The Journal of Social Health, vol. 1, no. 3 (Summer 2002).

Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Marc Miringoff, and Sandra Opdycke, “A Social Report on America’s Well-Being,” Indicators: The Journal of Social Health, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2001-2002).

Marque-Luisa Miringoff,  “The Social Health of the Nation: What’s the Score?” Vassar Alumni Quarterly (December 2001).

Profile of Participation in Arts and Culture in New York City (2001).

Marc Miringoff, “Stocks Up! Inflation Down! Okay. But How Are We Really Doing? Most Developed Countries Have Broad Measures That Tell What Real Life is Actually Like. Why Not Us?" Spirituality and Health (Winter 2000).

Marc Miringoff, “Knowing About Each Other: A Basis for Community,” Community: A Journal of Community Building for Community Leaders, vol. 3, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2000).

Marc Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Miringoff, and contributing author Sandra Opdycke, The Social Health of the Nation: How America is Really Doing (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Social Reporting in the United States —The Role of Media and Government: A Working Paper (1998).

The Community Indicator Movement and Social Reporting: A Working Paper (1998).

Marc Miringoff and Marque-Luisa Miringoff, “Context and Connection in Social Indicators: Enhancing What We Measure and Monitor,” in Indicators of Children’s Well-Being, ed. by Robert Hauser, Brett V. Brown, and William R. Prosser (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997).

Marc Miringoff, Marque-Luisa Miringoff, and Sandra Opdycke, “Monitoring the Nation’s Social Performance: The Index of Social Health,” in Children, Families, and Government: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Edward Zigler, Sharon Lynn Kagan, and Nancy W. Hall (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Marque-Luisa Miringoff, Marc Miringoff, and Sandra Opdycke, “The Growing Gap Between Standard Economic Indicators and the Nation’s Social Health,” Challenge (July-August 1996) 17-22.

Marc Miringoff and Marque-Luisa Miringoff, “America’s Social Health: The Nation’s Need to Know,” Challenge (Fall 1995) 19-24.

Marc Miringoff, “Toward a National Standard of Social Health: The Need for Progress in Social Indicators,” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, vol. 65, no. 4 (October 1995) 462-67.

The Social Health of the Children of Europe, prepared for UNICEF (Fall 1993).

Turning the Light on Social Problems: A Brief History of Social Reporting in the United States (Spring 1991).

The Need to Know: Report on the Invitational Conference on Social Reporting (Spring 1991).

Bangor Daily News/Fordham Institute, "Index of Maine’s Social Health: People, Poverty, and Progress: A Mirror of Maine’s Social Health, " 12 page Special Supplement, supported by Eastern Maine Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor Hydro-Electric Co., Bangor Daily News (December 22-23, 1990)

Marc Miringoff, “Monitoring the Social Well-Being of the Nation,” Public Welfare (Fall 1990).

Measuring the Social Well-Being of New York City, Special Focus: The Children of New York (Spring 1990).