Carol Graham

Three protesters embrace each other during a peaceful protest against police violence organized by the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in San Francisco, California December 24, 2014. An 18-year old black teen was fatally shot by police at a gas station late on Tuesday in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Racial gaps in hope, ill-being, and deaths of despair

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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 Cataldo Ambulance medic holds used doses of naloxone after medics revived a man in his 40's who was found unresponsive from an opioid overdose in the Boston suburb of Salem, Massachusetts, U.S., August 9, 2017. The victim received a total of 12mg of naloxone. Nurses at the hospital recognised the man, saying he was brought in the day before after overdosing. REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEARCH "SNYDER OPIOIDS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC18689E2910

Understanding the role of despair in America’s opioid crisis

Tuesday, October 15, 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