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Investigates the impact of the operations of the tenants at the ASU Research Park on employment and income. The 2016 impact in Arizona was 16,160 jobs, $865 million in labor income, and $1,418 million in total income.
After completing his undergraduate degree in economics at Wake Forest University, Kent received his Ph.D. in economics from Rice University in 1979. He was an assistant professor at ASU from 1978 to 1983. After leaving the university for seven years, during which he worked in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, he returned to ASU to teach in 1991. He joined ASU’s L. William Seidman Research Institute in 1999.
Summary table of ASU's economic impact in FY2025
An update to the December 2023 paper that presented data through 2023, estimates are presented of the number of ASU graduates working in Arizona, as well as their average wage, aggregate wages, and tax payments. Estimates are made for each year from 2012 through 2024.
This infographic estimates the total (direct, indirect and induced) economic impacts of the infusion of new dollars associated with Sun Devil Football regular season home games in 2024-25 season the…