COOS COUNTY — The Coos Youth Study was a 10-year research project, conducted by researchers at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey School of Public Policy, about growing up in a rural county undergoing transformative economic and demographic changes.
The research focused on how those changes factored into youths’ plans to stay in the region, pursue opportunities elsewhere, permanently relocate or return to their home communities with new skills and new ideas.
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