Martin Prosperity Institute Research

by Kevin Stolarick Abstract: The landscape of education, the individual returns to education, and the wage benefits associated with the attainment of improved educational levels has been changing across Canada for the past several decades. While some of these changes have been noted in previous work, a complete picture covering the 35 year period of [...]

by Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander Abstract: This study examines the effects of post-industrial socio-economic structures on the geographic variation in smoking and obesity. Our central hypothesis is that geographic variation in levels of both smoking and obesity will be systematically associated with the geographic distribution of factors associated with post-industrial metros such as human [...]

by Kevin Stolarick and Elizabeth Mack Abstract: Land-grant universities are a uniquely American institution in two respects. First, the establishment of a land-grant university was an independent act by the U.S federal government that endowed specific counties across the country with a university. Second, the mission of inclusive study of these institutions, with an emphasis [...]

Most who have commented on the university’s role in the economy believe the key lies in increasing its ability to transfer research to industry, generate new inventions and patents, and spin-off its technology in the form of startup companies. As such, there has been a movement in the U.S. and around the world to make [...]