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• Paradox and Perception : Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America

  Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Paradox and Perception greatly improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America based on a broad "quality of life" concept that challenges some standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income.

• Why Are Afghans Smiling?

  Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Though Afghanistan has been at war much of the last 30 years, Carol Graham and Jeremy Shapiro find that Afghans remain surprisingly happy. Graham and Shapiro believe adaptations to crime and corruption play a major role and argue that better understanding of multiple happiness factors, including Taliban influence, should shape future U.S. strategy in the country.

• Well-being and Public Attitudes in Afghanistan: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness

  Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In Afghanistan, individuals have to cope with the most adverse of circumstances. Carol Graham and Soumya Chattopadhyay use tools provided by a new approach in economics that relies on surveys of happiness or reported well-being to deepen our understanding of conditions there.They conclude that average happiness scores in Afghanistan are higher than the world average and discuss the implications of this and other findings for policy.

• The Fifth Summit of the Americas: Recommendations for Action

  Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Leaders of the Western Hemisphere gathered in Trinidad and Tobago on April 17-19, 2009 for the fifth Summit of the Americas. In a series of commentary articles focused on the summit's agenda and key challenges, Brookings experts discuss critical economic, social, energy and climate change issues facing the leaders attending the summit and propose recommendations for policy action.

• The Financial Crisis and Pursuing Happiness

  Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In a recent interview, Carol Graham discusses how happiness and general well being has been affected by the recent financial crisis.

• Gross National Happiness and the Economy

  Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  As the global financial crisis continues, Carol Graham and Soumya Chattopadhyay examine the potential impact of the crisis on the happiness level of Americans and discuss ways happiness rises and falls with economic changes.

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

  Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  Carol Graham reviews the happiness-health relationship from an economics perspective, highlighting the role of adaptation.

• Shopping and Happiness

  Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  It's supposed to be the "most wonderful time of the year." But for many Americans, the obligatory shopping that we do around the holidays results in more stress and less contentment. Carol Graham considers how shopping affects our happiness levels and whether ratcheting down our consumption will make us more or less content as a society.

• Obesity and the Influence of Others

  Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Op-ed by Carol Graham, Ross A. Hammond and H. Peyton Young (08/21/07)

• For Frustrated Achievers, More Is Less

  Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Article about Carol Graham (07/12/07)

• Top Ten Global Economic Challenges: An Assessment of Global Risks and Priorities

  Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Top Ten Global Economic Challenges Report by Global Economy and Development (February 2007)

• Measuring Happiness

  Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview wth Carol Graham, The Kojo Nnamdi Show (1/9/07)

• Brookings Trade Forum: 2006 : Global Labor Markets?

  Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  
  The ninth issue of the Brookings Trade Forum brings together some of the foremost experts on migration, representing diverse perspectives and backgrounds.

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

  Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Carol Graham (October 2006)

• Cheap Food, Societal Norms

  Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Wall Street Journal blog with Carol Graham (08/25/06)

• Is Latin America Going Radical?

  Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  With Hugo Chavez as an increasingly vocal critic of the United States, the electoral victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia, continued political instability in Ecuador; and the recent emergence of Ollanta Humala, an anti-market, extreme nationalist dark-horse political candidate in the electoral race in Peru, there is much discussion of Latin America's looming lurch to the radical left, with a host of negative implications for democracy, trade, and foreign investment in the region.

• The Economics of Happiness

  Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Carol Graham, World Economics (September 2005)

• Variance in Obesity Across Cohorts and Countries: A Norms Based Explanation Using Happiness Surveys

  Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  CSED Working Paper by Carol Graham and Andrew Felton (September 2005)

• Some Insights on Development from the Economics of Happiness

  Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Carol Graham, World Bank Research Observer (April 2005)

• Don't Let U.S. Politics Affect World's Poor Through World Bank Manipulation

  Mon, 28 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham, Christian Science Monitor (3/28/05)

• Does Inequality Matter to Individual Welfare? An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys from Latin America

  Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  CSED working paper 38 on perceptions of inequality among Latin Americans

• Brookings Trade Forum: 2004 : Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality

  Wed, 15 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  
  How is globalization linked to global poverty and to global inequality? Such questions are at the center of a heated and, at times, acrimonious debate, despite the large and growing literatures in economics and other disciplines. This volume of the Brookings Trade Forum aims to summarize what is known from the existing body of scholarly research and identify the questions on which there is less conclusive evidence and consensus.

• Latin America is Far From Rejecting Democracy

  Mon, 02 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham, London Financial Times (8/2/04)

• The Economics of Happiness

  Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Carol Graham, NPR's On Point (7/15/04)

• Does Economic Crisis Reduce Support for Markets and Democracy in Latin America? Lessons from Surveys of Public Opinion and Well Being

  Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Carol Graham and Sandip Sukhtankar, Journal of Latin American Studies (2/10/04)

• Well Being and Unemployment in Russia in the 1990's: Can Society's Suffering Be Individuals' Solace?

  Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  CSED Working Paper No. 35

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

  Sun, 01 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar

• Crisis in Bolivia, Dominoes in Latin America?

  Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham, Providence Journal (11/11/03)

• Rationale and Operating Principles for the Proposed Social Investment Fund for the Americas

  Wed, 05 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Carol Graham, House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere (11/5/03)

• The View from Mars: The Missing Debate on Income Inequality in America

  Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham and Andrew Oswald (8/6/03)

• The Effects of Income Losses and Gains on Happiness: Do Temporary Trends Matter

  Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  The Effects of Income Losses and Gains on Happiness

• Ignorance Fills the Income Gulf

  Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham and Peyton Young, Boston Globe (6/23/03)

• The Other War : Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account

  Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book makes concrete recommendations on crafting a new blueprint for distributing and delivering aid to make the Millenium Challenge Account an effective tool, not only in its own right, but also in transforming U.S. foreign aid and strengthening

• The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millennium Challenge Account

  Wed, 09 Apr 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  The Other War: Global Poverty and the Millenium Challenge Account

• Governance in an Integrated Global Economy

  Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Powerful as it is, the United States cannot address many of today's gravest challenges without joining hands with governments and citizens of other nations. Brookings Review article by Carol Graham and Robert E. Litan (Spring 2003)

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

  Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  As crisis after crisis has swept through Latin America, optimism about the region's turn to the market and democratic government during the mid-1990s has given way to grave concern. Brookings Review article by Carol Graham and Sandip Sukhtankar (Spri

• Stemming the Backlash Against Globalization

  Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #78, by Carol Graham (April 2001)

• Is Economic Crisis Reducing Support for Markets and Democracy in Latin America? Some Evidence from the Economics of Happiness

  Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  CSED Working Paper No. 30: ""Is Economic Crisis Reducing Support for Markets and Democracy in Latin America?

• The IMF's Dilemma in Argentina: Time for a New Approach to Lending?

  Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #111, by Carol Graham and Paul Masson (November 2002)

• The Costs of Book-Cooking

  Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution, and Robert E. Litan, Vice President and Director, Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution in the Christian Science Monitor, September 4, 2002

• Cooking the Books: The Cost to the Economy

  Thu, 01 Aug 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #106, by Carol Graham, Robert Litan, and Sandip Sukhtanker (July 2002)

• Shares Crash Has a Silver Lining

  Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham, Vice President and Director, Governance Studies, the Brookings Institution, and Robert E. Litan, Vice President and Director, Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Australian Financial Review, July 25, 2002

• The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall: An Estimate of the Costs of the Crisis in Corporate Governance

  Mon, 22 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Working paper by Carol Graham, Robert Litan, and Sandip Sukhtankar, the Brookings Institution, for the Brookings Website

• Crafting Sustainable Social Contracts in Latin America: Political Economy, Public Attitudes, and Social Policy

  Mon, 01 Jul 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  CSED Working Paper No. 29: Crafting Sustainable Social Contracts in Latin America: Political Economy, Public Attitudes, and Social Policy

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

  Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  CSED Working Paper No. 28: Does Happiness Pay? An Exploration Based on Panel Data from Russia

• Bush Points U.S. Aid in the Right Direction

  Mon, 08 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, and Carol Graham, Deputy Director of Economic Studies, the Brookings Institution, in the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2002

• Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Poor Countries: Shoring Up Institutions, Reducing Global Poverty

  Mon, 01 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #98, by Carol Graham (April 2002)

• Why Argentina '02 Is Not Russia '98

  Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Clifford Gaddy, Fellow, and Carol Graham, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in the Globalist, February 12, 2002

• Happiness and Hardship : Opportunity and Insecurity in New Market Economies

  Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Graham and Pettinato provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing the relationship between subjective well being and the political sustainability of market-oriented economic growth in 17 Latin American countries and Russia.

• Winners and Losers: Perspectives on Globalization from the Emerging Market Economies

  Sat, 01 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Carol Graham (Fall 2001)

• Happiness, Markets, and Democracy: Latin America in Comparative Perspective

  Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  Latin America in Comparative Perspective

• Stuck In The Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling The Middle Class?

  Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  An assessment of how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market

• New Markets, New Opportunities? : Economic and Social Mobility in a Changing World

  Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book provides a summary of the latest research on the economics and politics of social mobility in both developed and emerging market economies, including the conceptual issues involved and the challenges of accurately documenting trends.

• Assessing Hardship and Happiness: Trends in Mobility and Expectations in the New Market Economies

  Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Hardship and Happiness: Trends in Mobility and Expectations in the New Market Economies, working paper by Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato

• New Markets, New Opportunities?: Mobility Issues in the Emerging Market Economies

  Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Nancy Birdsall and Carol Graham (Fall 1999)

• Beyond Tradeoffs : Market Reforms and Equitable Growth in Latin America

  Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In Beyond Tradeoffs, Latin American experts demonstrate how market-friendly measures in key policy areas can simultaneously promote greater equity and greater efficiency, challenging the conventional wisdom that there is always a tradeoff between the

• Private Markets for Public Goods : Raising the Stakes in Economic Reform

  Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book studies the effects of incorporating market incentives into the public goods arena. The studies show that the incorporation of new market incentives, such as vouchers in education and private social security systems, can have positive effec

• A Half Penny on the Federal Dollar : The Future of Development Aid

  Mon, 21 Apr 1997 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In this book, O'Hanlon and Graham focus on the U.S.'s international spending, primarily on foreign assistance; placing official development assistance in a broad historical, international, and economic perspective.

• From Safety Nets to Social Policy: Lessons from the Developing Countries for the Transition Economies

  Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00:00 GMT

  From Safety Nets to Social Policy, MacArthur Foundation Program in International Security, Working Paper Series, February 1997, by Carol Graham. Few topics have received as much discussion in transition economies as have the social costs of market-or

• Peru: The Prison of Poverty Is the Problem

  Sat, 11 Jan 1997 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham, Los Angeles Times (1/12/97)

• People's Capitalism Makes Headway in Peru

  Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Carol Graham, The Wall Street Journal (4/19/96)

• Raising the Stakes: Involving the Public and Enhancing Equity in Market Reforms

  Fri, 01 Mar 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review, Spring 1996

• Safety Nets, Politics, and the Poor : Transitions to Market Economies

  Tue, 27 Sep 1994 00:00:00 GMT

  
  The author examines how economic safety nets can provide an environment in which economic reform is more politically sustainable, with a particular focus on how political and institutional contexts affect the kinds of safety nets that are implemented

• From Emergency Employment to Social Investment : Alleviating Poverty in Chile

  Wed, 27 Nov 1991 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book discusses Chile's transition to Democracy, focusing mainly on the growth of poverty throughout the country and the government's response through welfare policy.