Dave Wells-Research

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Public Policy Research

Latest! Corporate Tax Games: March to Madness or Economic Growth? (Mar. 2010)

Arizona's Tuiton Tax Credit Program and Private School Enrollment (Feb. 2010)

Prop. 200—Payday Reform by the Payday
Industry: it’s about profits, not people
(Sept. 2008 )

CityNorth Retail Economic Analysis (expert report for Turken v. Gordon, Oct. 2007)

Taxpayers Bill of Rights: Bad News for Working Families (March 2005)

Proposed Arizona Coporate Tax Cuts: Padding Profits at the Expense of Kids (April 2004)

Building Equity: Tax Reform for Arizona’s Future (July 2003)

Los Arcos Town Center Proposal: Net Loss to Taxpayers while Wal-Mart and Ellman Profit (June 2003)

 

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, the point is to change it"

Dave is one of ASU's most outspoken policy advocates. His research focuses on state and local fiscal policy and analyses of economic development, but he's also researched numerous other areas from education, voting schemes, initiative reform, affordable housing, immigration and the war on Iraq through his numerous op-eds. He predicted our present economic dire straights in 2005.

 

Research Collaborations with Students
Domestic Violence Prosecutions: Inequalities by Gender and Race Perpetuated in Arizona (Aug. 2003)

Survey Profile of the Broadway Corridor: Bivariate Results (November 2002-revised January 2003)-click on housing survey.

Students and the Structure of College

"A Matter of Degree: How Students Combine Work and College" (an institutional ethnography of ASU students), Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, August 2002.--latest revised version

Community Discourse through Op-ed columns

While Dave began his first stint as a regular op-ed writer in in 1988 as a graduate student, continued again in 1996 while living in Indiana, and had his first piece in the AZ Republic main opinion page in 1999. Since Nov. 2004, he's been a regular contributor to the Republic community pages, Tribune, as well as the Tucson Citizen.

Selected op-eds:

"Where AIMS Fails "
August 6, 2008

"Affordable Housing needn't be pie in the Tempe Sky" June 3, 2006

"Real Estate Boom a House of Cards "
Oct. 14, 2005, yes 2005!

"Legislature Shortchanges Schools," Feb. 18, 2005.

"Republicans Undermined State Finance in 1990's," Jan. 21, 2005.


Labor Markets & Organizational Structure

Dave has examined labor market structures and the impact of Wal-Mart in the retail sector.

"Why the Market Deems Some Workers More ‘Worthy’ Than Others: An Economic Sociology Approach," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2004.

"Worker-Consumer Identity Conflict and the Threat of Wal-Mart," Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 2004.

Office Hours

Monday 4 - 5 p.m.

Tuesday 10:00-11:30 a.m.

Thursday 1:45 p.m.-3:15 p.m..

& by appointment

Priorities?
Contact Information

Dave Wells, Ph.D. (Political Economy & Public Policy)

Associate Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Arizona State University

411 N. Central Ave., Suite 351 Phoenix, AZ 85004

(602) 496-0615

david.wells@asu.edu

Dave@MakeDemocracyWork.org






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