The Gardner Policy Institute provides data-driven, context-specific insights about Utah’s economy. We prepare in-depth studies on key Utah issues in partnership with stakeholders in the private sector and state and local government. Our research provides vital information decision makers and the public use to help Utah prosper.

Recent Publications

2021

• Utah’s Defense Economy: Economic Impacts and Industry Trends
• Fact Sheet: Growth Trends in Utah’s Life Sciences Industry
• A Visual Guide to Tax Modernization in Utah: Part Two: User Fees
• Diversity in Utah Data Book: Race, Ethnicity, and Sex
• Refugees in Utah
• COVID-19 Impacts by Gender
• Utah’s Economically Disadvantaged Students: A Review of the Data and the Role of Education
• 2021 Economic Report to the Governor
• Utah Informed 2021
• The COVID-19 Economic Risk Index
• COVID-19’s Impacts on Utah’s Oil & Gas Industry

2020

• Estimates for Utah’s Middle Class in 2019
• Utah’s Economic Exceptionalism
• Utah’s Industry Cluster Supply Chains: A Regional Analysis
• Utah’s Economic Regions
• Utah Homeless Services: Governance Structure and Funding Model
• Utah Economy Report: 2020 Utah Economic and Energy Summit
• An Economic Analysis of Utah’s Industrial Banks (Snapshot)
• An Economic Analysis of Utah’s Industrial Banks
• The Economy Impacts of Utah’s Manufacturing Industry, 2018
• Economic Contribution of the University of Utah
• Economic Contribution of University of Utah Health
• Measuring Economic Diversity: The Hachman Index, 2018
• Utah Informed 2020
• 2020 Utah Economic Report to the Governor

2019

• Utah System of Higher Education: State Aid Project
• Fact Sheet: An Analysis of Labor Supply and Demand in Utah
• Utah’s Tech Economy Volume One: Economic Impacts, Industry Trends, Occupations, and Workers
• State Budget Stress Testing: How Utah Budget-makers are Shifting the Focus from a Balanced Budget to Fiscal Sustainability
• The Economic Impacts of Utah Retirement Systems Pension Payments in the State of Utah in 2018
• Industry Snapshot: Utah’s Tech Industry
• Summary Economic Impacts of Utah’s Tech Industry
• Measuring Economic Diversity: The Hachman Index, 2017
• 2019 Economic Report to the Governor
• Utah Informed 2019
• Video: Tax Modernization in Utah: Sales and Use Tax