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Carol Graham is affiliated with the Brookings Institution in the United States, focusing primarily on research within the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, notably social psychology, health, general health professions, applied psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Graham's research centers on topics such as psychological well-being and life satisfaction, health disparities and outcomes, optimism, hope, and well-being, employment and welfare studies, psychological and temporal perspectives, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, and global health care issues.

The scientist has contributed to a range of publication venues, with frequent appearances in the SSRN Electronic Journal, Behavioral Science & Policy, Social Science & Medicine, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Noteworthy recent papers authored or coauthored by Carol Graham include:

  • "The U Shape of Happiness: A Response," 2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "The geography of desperation in America: Labor force participation, mobility, place, and well-being," 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • "HAPPINESS AND AGE-RESOLVING THE DEBATE," 2023, National Institute Economic Review
  • "The influence of economic policies on social environments and mental health," 2024, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • "Building brain capital," 2021, Neuron

Frequent collaborators in their research include David G. Blanchflower, Sérgio Pinto, Harris A. Eyre, Yung Chun, and William Hynes.

Carol Graham has also contributed to academic books published by Princeton University Press. One of the titles associated with their work is "The Power of Hope," published in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Inequality and happiness: Insights from Latin America

    Carol Graham;Andrew Felton

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

    Carol Graham;Andrew Eggers;Sandip Sukhtankar

  • Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires

    Carol Graham

  • Stuck in Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling the Middle?

    Nancy Birdsall;Carol Graham;Carol Graham;Stefano Pettinato;Stefano Pettinato

  • Frustrated Achievers: Winners, Losers and Subjective Well-Being in New Market Economies

    C. Graham;S. Pettinato

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

    Carol L. Graham;Stefano Pettinato

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

    Carol Graham

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

    Carol Graham;Stefano Pettinato

  • The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being

    Carol L. Graham

  • Insights on Development from the Economics of Happiness

    Carol Graham

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

    Carol Graham;Sandip Sukhtankar

  • Happiness, stress, and age: how the U curve varies across people and places

    Carol Graham;Julia Ruiz Pozuelo

  • Gender and well-being around the world

    Carol Graham;Soumya Chattopadhyay

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

    Carol Graham

  • Which health conditions cause the most unhappiness

    Carol Graham;Lucas Higuera;Eduardo Lora

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

    Liliana Rojas-Suárez;Nancy Birdsall;Moisés Naím;Eduardo Lora

  • Happiness and Health in China: The Paradox of Progress

    Carol Graham;Shaojie Zhou;Junyi Zhang

  • Well-being and unemployment in Russia in the 1990s: Can society's suffering be individuals’ solace?

    Andrew Eggers;Clifford Gaddy;Carol Graham;Carol Graham

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

    Carol Graham;Carol Graham

  • Unequal hopes and lives in the USA: optimism, race, place, and premature mortality

    Carol Graham;Sergio Pinto

  • Stuck in the Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling the Middle Class?

    Nancy Birdsall;Carol Graham;Stefano Pettinato

  • Inequality and happiness: Insights from

    Carol Graham;Andrew Felton

Frequent Co-Authors

David G. Blanchflower
David G. Blanchflower Dartmouth College
Nancy Birdsall
Nancy Birdsall Center for Global Development
John E. Roemer
John E. Roemer Yale University
Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton Princeton University
Peter J. Montiel
Peter J. Montiel Williams College
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz Columbia University
Ricardo Hausmann
Ricardo Hausmann Harvard University
Nora Lustig
Nora Lustig Tulane University
David Dollar
David Dollar Brookings Institution
Marc Fleurbaey
Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics

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