Economists on Zoom Getting Coffee hosts Carol Graham, known globally by her pioneering work on a field known as economics of happiness and of wellbeing, a field where she is recognized as one of its most influential scholars. With Carol we talked about the most important findings she've had in her research when tracking people's happiness and wellbeing, both in the US and around the globe, as well as discussing whether it is wellbeing that causes changes in income or the other way around. We also discussed her most recent research on "deaths of despair" in America.

Graham is the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and a Senior Scientist at Gallup. She is author of numerous books, such as “Happiness for All? Unequal Lives and Hopes in Pursuit of the American Dream” (Princeton University Press, 2017) and “The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being” (Brookings, 2011; published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and paperback), among many others. She is also the author of dozens of articles in leading academic journals and has also authored numerous chapters in edited volumes. She is an associate editor at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and on the editorial boards of numerous other economic journals.

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