Productivity and Prosperity

An Overview of the Household Location Decision Process, with a Focus on Arizona


Timothy Hogan, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, L. William Seidman Research Institute and Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics

Discusses the factors important to an individual contemplating making a long-distance move, evaluates the desirability of Arizona and its major metropolitan areas, and examines migration trends.


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Timothy Hogan, Ph.D.
Timothy Hogan, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate, L. William Seidman Research Institute and Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics

After earning a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, Tim received a M.A. in economics from the University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. in economics from Virginia Tech University in 1971. Tim was a faculty member in the ASU Department of Economics from 1970 until he retired in 2004. He began working for the predecessor of the L. William Seidman Research Institute in the 1970s and has been associated with the Institute since it was established, serving as director from 1995 through 2004.


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