Carrie holds a doctorate in social and organizational psychology from the University of Chicago, and wrote her thesis on religion, social change, and the roles of women and men, a subject on which she continues to do research.

Her new book, The Redemption of Love: Rescuing Marriage and Sexuality from the Economics of a Fallen World was published by Brazos Press in 2006. She is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Economic Study of Religion at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia and a non-resident scholar at the Institute for the Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Texas. In addition to speaking and teaching on the Bible, marriage, and family she is one of the founders of a new international ministry, Empower International Ministries, working to teach the Biblical ideal of marriage in Africa. She just completed her fourth trip in June 2008. 

Carrie is married to economist Laurence Iannaccone, and they have two children, Andrew and Nicole.