Carol Graham

A man walks on a street between buildings at a business district in Tokyo, Japan, November 19, 2015. The Bank of Japan maintained its current pace of monetary stimulus on Thursday, clinging to hopes that an economic recovery is in sight despite soft domestic capital expenditure and challenging global business conditions. REUTERS/Yuya Shino - GF20000065409

American optimism, longevity, and the role of lost hope in deaths of despair

Thursday, November 7, 2019

A man walks through the rain in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, U.S., February 10, 2018. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky - RC1F10244800

Why are out-of-work men so unhappy in the US?

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Shobha Vakade, 28, who took a loan of rupees 18,000 ($400) from a micro finance company to start her own business, strings beads into necklaces outside her house in a slum in Mumbai October 26, 2010. India's microfinance industry, which surged to prominence when George Soros-backed SKS Microfinance raised $358 million in an IPO, faces a regulatory clampdown that could erode profits and hurt growth. Reports of dozens of suicides by poor borrowers in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, the hub of India's microfinance sector, prompted the state to enact an rules against aggressive recovery practices by lenders who make loans that average about $150 to poor customers at interest rates that can top 30 percent. Picture taken October 26, 2010. To match analysis INDIA-MICROFINANCE/ REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1E6AS11VO01

Progress paradoxes in China, India, and the US: A tale of growing but unhappy countries

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Fatima Paola Pizarro (L), holds her daughter Aitana Pizarro at her grandparent's home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico May 8, 2018. Fatima is the daughter of Marcelino Pizarro who lives in El Paso, U.S. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez SEARCH "MARCELINO PIZARRO" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1EC57A0B00

International migration: What happens to those left behind?

Milena Nikolova, Carol Graham, and Artjoms Ivlevs

Thursday, September 13, 2018

An Iraqi works at a car repair shop east of Mosul, Iraq April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem - RC1B5D9D6CE0

Do social protection programs improve life satisfaction? Lessons from Iraq

Talajeh Livani and Carol Graham

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Police in riot gear and a protester stand near a burned U.S. flag after the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of Jason Stockley, a former St. Louis police officer charged with the 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar Smith, in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. September 17, 2017. Picture taken September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Lawrence Bryant - RC17ECB258C0

Helping close divisions in the US: Insights from the American Well-Being Project

Carol Graham, Edward Lawlor, and Joshua Miller

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

A syringe filled a narcotic, an empty syringe and a spoon sit on the roof of a car, where a man in his 20's overdosed on opioids in Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S., August 14, 2017. Picture taken August 14, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC1257D38130

Premature mortality and the long decline of hope in America

Thursday, May 10, 2018

A person stands with an umbrella in a steady rain at the Martin Luther KIng Jr. Memorial in Washington January 18, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Brookings experts reflect on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his assassination

Gary Burtless, Amy Liu, Jonathan Rauch, Carol Graham, Hady Amr, Marcus Casey, Jenny Schuetz, Anthony F. Pipa, Andre M. Perry, and Nicol Turner Lee

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) students walk on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 15, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - RC1E00280F00

Moving beyond divide in America: Insights from well-being metrics, teenagers, and Sister Sledge

Carol Graham and Julie Rusk

Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Graciela Guzman (R) and her daughter Maria pose in front of their home in Gosen City, a slum in the Villa Maria del Triunfo municipality on the outskirts of Lima April 10, 2014. Guzman was one of the founders of Gosen City more than 12 years ago, and managed to build her own home in 2009. Her daughter Maria studies graphic design in Lima. A number of residents in Gosen City, a slum that grew up near a garbage dump on the outskirts of Lima, have seen their lives improve as parts of Peru feel the effects of years of economic growth. Peru's President Ollanta Humala has pledged to cut poverty to 15 percent by the end of his term in July 2016. He is still a long way from his goal, but the poverty rate is coming down, falling just under two percentage points to 23.9 percent in 2013 from the prior year. Picture taken April 10, 2014. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo (PERU - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS POLITICS POVERTY EMPLOYMENT)

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Low-income young adults in Peru show the effects of hope on life outcomes

Friday, March 16, 2018