Research and Commentary

Is the American Dream Losing its Appeal?

September 23, 2013, Carol Graham

America’s Broken Dream: Growing Inequality

September 5, 2013, Carol Graham

Why Economic Expansion in Places Like Turkey and Russia Won’t Stop Protests

August 13, 2013, Clifford G. Gaddy and Carol Graham

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Can the Global Middle Class Effect Change?

July 10, 2013, Carol Graham

Comments on David Blanchflower, David Bell, Alberto Montagnoli, and Mirko Moro, “The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks on Well-being”

April 12, 2013, Carol Graham

Measuring Happiness

February 22, 2013, Carol Graham

Does Access to Information Technology Make People Happier?

December 2012, Carol Graham and Milena Nikolova

How Can We Most Effectively Measure Happiness?

October 17, 2012, Carol Graham

Gender and Well-Being Around the World

August 20, 2012, Carol Graham and Soumya Chattopadhyay

Hedemonics or Humanomics?: A Response to McCloskey’s Critique of Happiness Economics

July 26, 2012, Carol Graham

The Road to Hemispheric Cooperation: Beyond the Cartagena Summit of the Americas

July 16, 2012

Fostering a Culture of Innovation in the Americas

July 16, 2012

After the Spring: Economic Perspectives in the Arab World

February 2012, Magdi Amin, Ragui Assaad, Nazar al-Baharna, Kemal Dervis, Raj M. Desai, Navtej S. Dhillon, Ahmed Galal, Hafez Ghanem, Carol Graham, Daniel Kaufmann, Homi Kharas, John Page, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Katherine Sierra, and Tarik M. Yousef

@ Brookings Podcast: The Policy Implications of Happiness

December 9, 2011, Carol Graham

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Happiness Economics: Can We Have an Economy of Well-Being?

July 31, 2011, Carol Graham

The Pursuit of Happiness: Can We Have an Economy of Well-Being?

June 21, 2011, Carol Graham

Insecurity, Health and Well-Being: An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys

March 23, 2011, Juan Camilo Chaparro and Carol Graham

More on the Easterlin Paradox: A Response to Wolfers

December 15, 2010, Carol Graham

Which Health Conditions Cause The Most Unhappiness?

December 14, 2010, Carol Graham, Lucas Higuera and Eduardo Lora

(Un?)Happiness and Gasoline Prices in the United States

September 2010, Soumya Chattopadhyay, James Coan, Carol Graham, Amy Myers Jaffe and Kenneth Medlock III

Some Lessons from Happiness Economics and Quality of Life Research for the Human Development Index

July 2010, Carol Graham

Happiness Around the World

2010, Carol Graham

Adaptation amidst Prosperity and Adversity: Insights from Happiness Studies from Around the World

July 2010, Carol Graham

Web Chat: The Economics of Happiness

April 21, 2010, Carol Graham

Martin Indyk and Carol Graham Comment on the Third “How We’re Doing” Index

February 28, 2010, Carol Graham and Martin S. Indyk

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