Quality of Life

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

Isabel V. Sawhill

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Hospital staff push a gurney through a hospital corridor

Up Front

A new tool for tracking vulnerability and premature mortality in America

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Interactive

Geography of Hope and Desperation

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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Reports

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

Gary Connell reacts while talking about the economic impact to his hairstyling business after a nine-week disruption due to the stay-at-home order for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, outside Salon Plaza in Wheaton, Maryland, near Washington, U.S., June 11, 2020. Picture taken June 11, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

Report

Well-being and mental health amid COVID-19: Differences in resilience across minorities and whites

Carol Graham, Yung Chun, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, and Stephen Roll

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Portrait of the middle-aged woman looking through the window on a rainy day

Report

The midlife dip in well-being: Economists (who find it) versus psychologists (who don’t!)

Carol Graham

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

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Middle Class

A primer on access to and use of paid family leave

Isabel V. Sawhill, Sarah Nzau, and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, December 5, 2019

Cities & Regions

Transformative placemaking: A framework to create connected, vibrant, and inclusive communities

Jennifer S. Vey and Hanna Love

November 19, 2019

Blog Posts

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Up Front

Reopening America: How division and vulnerability hamper our response

Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto

Thursday, June 25, 2020

The Avenue

How Wilmington, Del. is revitalizing vacant land to rebuild community trust

Laura Semmelroth

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

High Fidelity, a black owned business on Melrose Avenue, displays a "Minority Owned" signed in the window with hopes that their business would not be looted or damaged during the riots that took place the night before in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, May 31, 2020. (Photo by Desmond A. Hester / Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

How We Rise

Beyond corporate statements of solidarity and CEO rhetoric of equality

Makada Henry-Nickie

Thursday, June 11, 2020

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Experts

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Multimedia

Podcast Episode

Does money make you happy?

Carol Graham

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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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Economic Development

Positioned for growth: Advancing the Oklahoma City innovation district

Scott Andes, Jason Hachadorian, Bruce Katz, Anna Siprikova, Jennifer S. Vey, and Meg Walker

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

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Reports

The happiness curve: Why life gets better after 50

Occupational licensing: Too much of a good thing?

The promise of birth control

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