Quality of Life

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Podcast Episode

Brookings’s Carol Graham discusses America’s crisis of despair

Carol Graham

The Healthcare Policy Podcast

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

U.S. Politics & Government

The value of qualitative data for advancing equity in policy

Tiffany N. Ford and Annelies Goger

Thursday, October 14, 2021

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Podcast Episode

Industrial decline and the rise of populists in Russia, the U.S., and Britain

Fiona Hill and David Dollar

Monday, October 11, 2021

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By Fiona Hill

2021

Reports

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Report

Addressing America’s crisis of despair and economic recovery

Friday, July 30, 2021

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Report

How COVID-19 changed the world: G-7 evidence on a recalibrated relationship between market, state, and society

Katharina Lima de Miranda and Dennis J. Snower

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Essay

How We Rise: How social networks impact economic mobility in Racine, WI, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, DC

Camille Busette, Jill Simmerman Lawrence, Richard V. Reeves, and Sarah Nzau

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

A boy throws snow at his mother as they play in a playground in Harlem, New York, U.S. February 9, 2017. REUTERS/Bria Webb

Essay

Are women happier than men? Do gender rights make a difference?

Carol Graham

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Quality of Life

Social capital: Why we need it and how we can create more of it

Isabel V. Sawhill

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Blog Posts

Up Front

Parents are time squeezed, these policies can help

Pulcherie Bekono, Morgan Welch, and Hannah Van Drie

Friday, August 13, 2021

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Order from Chaos

Two tales of a city: How middle-class Shanghai reveals China’s unsettled future

Cheng Li

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Future Development

Making well-being a policy priority: Lessons from the 2021 World Happiness Report

Carol Graham

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

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Events

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How’s Life? 2013

By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD

2013

The Pursuit of Happiness

By Carol L. Graham

2012

How to Improve Governance

By David de Ferranti, Justin Jacinto, Anthony J. Ody, and Graeme Ramshaw

2009

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Experts

Tiffany N. Ford

Postdoctoral Fellow - Economic Studies, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

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Carol Graham

Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and Research Director - Global Economy and Development

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Dr. Carol Graham, Fellow at Brookings Institution (on happiness)

Carol Graham

McKay Interview - on World Radio Switzerland

Friday, July 9, 2021

Podcast Episode

Does money make you happy?

Carol Graham

Crazy Money with Paul Ollinger

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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)

Up Front

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

Carol Graham

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Quality of Life

Brookings’s Carol Graham discusses America’s crisis of despair

The value of qualitative data for advancing equity in policy

Industrial decline and the rise of populists in Russia, the U.S., and Britain

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

Reports

Addressing America’s crisis of despair and economic recovery

How COVID-19 changed the world: G-7 evidence on a recalibrated relationship between market, state, and society

How We Rise: How social networks impact economic mobility in Racine, WI, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, DC

Are women happier than men? Do gender rights make a difference?

Social capital: Why we need it and how we can create more of it

Blog Posts

Parents are time squeezed, these policies can help

Two tales of a city: How middle-class Shanghai reveals China’s unsettled future

Making well-being a policy priority: Lessons from the 2021 World Happiness Report

Events

Affordable housing for special-needs adults

The happiness curve: Why life gets better after 50

Occupational licensing: Too much of a good thing?

Related Books

How’s Life? 2013

The Pursuit of Happiness

How to Improve Governance

Experts

Tiffany N. Ford

Postdoctoral Fellow - Economic Studies, Future of the Middle Class Initiative

Carol Graham

Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and Research Director - Global Economy and Development

Multimedia

Dr. Carol Graham, Fellow at Brookings Institution (on happiness)

Does money make you happy?

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

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