Life Is Good, So Why Do We Feel So Bad?

Research and Commentary

How Can We Restore Americans' Sense of Optimism?

Gregg Easterbrook, NewTalk, June 11, 2008

Research and Commentary

The Sky Is Falling: Why Isn’t NASA Trying Harder to Prevent Catastrophe?

Gregg Easterbrook, The Atlantic Monthly, June 01, 2008

Research and Commentary

Are the Media Making Us Feel Worse?

Gregg Easterbrook, NPR's Talk of the Nation, June 16, 2008

Research and Commentary

The Middle-Class Squeeze

Gregg Easterbrook and Elizabeth Warren, American Public Media, Marketplace, January 11, 2008

Research and Commentary

Obesity and the Influence of Others

Carol Graham, H. Peyton Young and Ross A. Hammond, The Washington Post, August 21, 2007

Research and Commentary

For Frustrated Achievers, More Is Less

Carol Graham, Yahoo! Finance, July 12, 2007

Research and Commentary

Measuring Happiness

Carol Graham, The Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU), January 09, 2007

Research and Commentary

Optimism and Poverty in Africa: Adaptation or a Means to Survival?

Carol Graham, The Brookings Institution, October 01, 2006

Research and Commentary

The Economics of Happiness

Carol Graham, World Economics, September 01, 2005

Research and Commentary

Some Insights on Development from the Economics of Happiness

Carol Graham, World Bank Research Observer, April 01, 2005

Research and Commentary

The Economics of Happiness

Carol Graham, NPR's On Point, July 15, 2004

Research and Commentary

Does Happiness Pay? An Exploration Based on Panel Data from Russia

Andrew Eggers, Carol Graham and Sandip Sukhtankar, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, February 01, 2004

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Carol Graham

Research and Commentary

Fighting Radicalism, not 'Terrorism': Root Causes of an International Actor Redefined

Ömer Taşpınar, SAIS Review, September 29, 2009

Research and Commentary

The Sequence of Personal Responsibility

Ron Haskins, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy , July 31, 2009

Research and Commentary

Happiness And Health: Lessons—And Questions—For Public Policy

Carol Graham, Project HOPE - Health Affairs January/February 2008, January 01, 2008

Research and Commentary

A Genome-Wide Association Study Implicates Diacylglycerol Kinase Eta (DGKH) and Several Other Genes in the Etiology of Bipolar Disorder

Ben Klemens, Molecular Psychiatry (2008) 13, 197–207, May 08, 2007

Research and Commentary

Event Summary: Informing Policy Choices Using the Economics of Happiness

The Brookings Institution, June 03, 2004

Research and Commentary

Economic Crisis, Markets, and Democracy in Latin America: Some Evidence From the Economics of Happiness

Carol Graham and Sandip Sukhtankar, The Brookings Institution, March 01, 2003

Research and Commentary

Doing It Right: The Future of Humanitarian Intervention

Michael E. O'Hanlon, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 2000

Research and Commentary

The Paradox of Infrastructure Investment: Can a Productive Good Reduce Productivity?

Andrew F. Haughwout, The Brookings Institution, June 01, 2000