1. Carol Graham was born on January 29,1962 and is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor, and the author of numerous books, papers and edited volume chapters.
In Happiness around the World: the Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires, Carol Graham explores what we know about the determinants of happiness across and within countries of different development levels, including some counterintuitive and surprising relationships.
Carol Graham recently served on a National Academy of Sciences Panel on well-being metrics and public policy, and received a Distinguished Research Fellow Award from the International Society for Quality of Life Studies in September 2014.
Carol Graham began her career as a research fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution in 1988.
Carol Graham has served as a special advisor to the Executive Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank and to the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
Carol Graham has been a visiting professor in the Department of Economics at Johns Hopkins University and a professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.
Carol Graham acted as the co-director for the Center on Social and Economic Dynamics and senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution from 1998 to 2006.
Carol Graham served as vice president and director of Governance Studies at Brookings from 2002 to 2004.
Carol Graham has testified in the United States Congress several times on the economic situation in Latin America and has discussed related topics on NBC News, National Public Radio, the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and CNN among others.
Carol Graham is managing policy editor of Behavioral Science and Policy, an associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Research on Quality of Life, among others.
Carol Graham serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Nutrition Research Institute in Lima, Peru, and on the research advisory board of the Center for Global Development in Washington.
Carol Graham, who was born in Lima, Peru, is the mother of three children.
Carol Graham uses traditional measures of income inequality as a point of departure and then use well-being data to highlight inequality in beliefs, hope, and aspirations.
Carol Graham finds, for example, remarkable levels of optimism among poor blacks but deep desperation among poor whites.
Carol Graham tells what it means from the perspective of those who suffer from it, as she explores, from many different angles, how it affects Americans' sense of well-being, and their place within the American dream.
Carol Graham was a pioneer in the economic study of happiness, and she has been involved from the beginning in discussions about applying this approach to economic policymaking.