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.

2023

• Utah’s Life Sciences Workforce and Industry Growth: 2012-2021
• Hachman Index of Economic Diversity, 2021
• Policy Brief: Housing Prices and Affordability
• The State of Utah’s Travel and Tourism Industry (Annual Report)
• The State of Utah’s Travel and Tourism Industry, 2023 (Tri-Fold Brochure)
• An Economic Summary of Utah’s Cultural Industry
• An Economic Overview for Utah and U.S. 
• Utah Economic Council Forecast for 2023
• 2023 Economic Report to the Governor
• 2023 Economic Report to the Governor (Highlights) 
• Utah Informed 2023

2022

• Property Tax Insights
• A Cloudy Crystal Ball: Pandemic Forecasting Challenges Highlight Need for Budget Relief Valves
• Gardner Business Review: U.S. and Utah Debt Policy: A Study in Contrasts 
• Utah’s Invisible Workforce: The Economic Contributions and Health Impacts of Family Caregiving
• A Business Vision for Utah’s Energy Future
• A Business Vision for Utah’s Energy Future (Data Compendium)
• Utah’s Engineering and Computer Science Workforce: Higher Education and Economic Trends
• The Changing Dynamics of the Wasatch Front Apartment Market
• Work/Life Balance Preferences: Utah Parents
• Industry Snapshot: Utah’s Direct Selling Industry
• An Economic Analysis of Utah’s Direct Selling Industry
• The Unprecedented Federal Fiscal Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Impact on State Budgets
• 2030 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Utah: Economic and Fiscal Impacts
• Economic Challenges and Opportunities in Utah’s Coal Country
• Utah Economic Impacts from Utah Retirement Systems 2021 Pension Payments
• Salt Lake County’s Historic Apartment Boom: Past, Present, and Future
• Point of the Mountain Buildout Scenarios: Economic and Fiscal Contributions
• A Blueprint for Growing Salt Lake City’s Health Care Innovation Economy
• Utah State Government Growth: Following the Feds or on its Own Path?
• Industry Snapshot: An Economic Summary of Utah’s Arts, Culture, and Entertainment Industry
• A Visual Guide to Tax Modernization Part Three: Understanding Property Taxes
• 2022 Economic Report to the Governor
• 2022 Economic Report to the Governor (Highlights) 
• Utah Informed 2022

2021

• Renewable Natural Gas: A Sustainable Approach to the Energy Transition
• 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