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Preparing for an Arizona of 10 Million People: Meeting the Infrastructure Challenges of Growth – Background Report

Places Arizona's infrastructure needs into national and historical contexts, examines the changing conditions in infrastructure provision that make building Arizona's infrastructure in the future a more problematic proposition than in the past, and projects the possible costs of providing…

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The Societal Benefits of Higher Education

Reviews the societal benefits of higher education in Arizona and estimates the benefits of increasing the percentage of university graduates.

Economic Development Educational Attainment Income & Earnings Nation Productivity and Prosperity Value of Education
Productivity and Prosperity

Quantitative Examples of the Financial and Economic Benefits of Higher Education

Focuses on three of the financial/economic benefits provided by universities: individual financial benefits, social financial benefits, and economic benefits of university research.

Arizona Educational Attainment Income & Earnings Nation Productivity and Prosperity Research & Development Value of Education
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Targeting Federal Laboratories as a Catalyst for Private Investment in Research and Development

Explains how the attraction of a federally funded research and development center would aid economic development, particularly private-sector research and development, in Arizona.

Nation Productivity and Prosperity Research & Development States
Productivity and Prosperity

Sunbelt Growth and the Knowledge Economy: An Exploratory Analysis

Examines the education and income characteristics of migrants to the Sunbelt and the economic performance of the Sunbelt, with a focus on economic development and the knowledge economy.

Educational Attainment Knowledge Economy Migration Nation Productivity and Prosperity States Substates
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University Research and Local Economic Development

Provides a review of studies that examine the extent to which university research promotes local economic growth and development, with a primary focus on economic impacts that derive from the innovative outputs of faculty. These impacts include the attraction of industrial laboratories, the…

Economic Development Nation Productivity and Prosperity Research & Development STEM/High Tech Substates
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Five Reasons to Skip College: A Reply

Responds to an article at Forbes.com that questioned the value of higher education.

Income & Earnings Nation Productivity and Prosperity Value of Education
Productivity and Prosperity

High-Wage Jobs

Examines high-wage jobs throughout the United States with a focus on Arizona. Arizona’s subpar job quality is not due to a scarcity of high-wage jobs, but instead results from lesser job quality in the remainder of the employment distribution.

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Universities in the U.S. National Innovation System

Reviews research and development efforts in the United States, including the role played by universities. Private industry performs over 90 percent of development and about 70 percent of applied research. Basic research, on the other hand, is performed primarily in universities.

Higher Education Finance Nation Productivity and Prosperity Research & Development

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