Regional Publications

• Mass. Competitiveness Index for the Massachusetts Taxpayer’s Foundation

  Sep 2024

  2024 Massachusetts Competitiveness Index Report is designed to put forward a framework to assess how Massachusetts stacks up compared to other states, key economic and geographic competitors, and itself.
• Economic Impacts: The ClimateTech Sector Policies of the Mass Leads Act

  May 2024
• Construction-Related Trades and Union Occupations in the Greater Brockton Region

  Nov 2023
• New Employee Survey at Encore Boston Harbor - January 2019 through December 2021

  Nov 2022
• Springfield & Pioneer Valley Housing: Phase II

  Mar 2022
• Analysis: Longwood area of Boston, MA is a fast producer of jobs

  May 2021
• Greater Springfield, MA Housing Report: The first in-depth scan of the region in the COVID era

  Mar 2021

  Examining issues of housing production, affordability, and accessibility across the Pioneer Valley
• Lottery Revenue and MGM Springfield: Statewide and Local Analysis

  Apr 2020
• Update of Plainridge Park Casino’s social and economic impacts on the Commonwealth

  Nov 2019
• Publication: Changing Faces of Greater Boston: A demographic analysis of the last 30 years

  May 2019
• MassBenchmarks Bulletin: October 2017

  Oct 2017
• MassBenchmarks - Spring 2017

  May 2017
• Excerpts from the MassBenchmarks Board, March 2017: The Economy Continues to Perform Well

  Mar 2017

  Concerns about long range growth center around available labor supply and uncertainty in Federal immigration policy
• MassBenchmarks Bulletin - October 2016

  Oct 2016

  Massachusetts real gross domestic product grew at an annual rate of 3.7 percent in the third quarter of 2016 according to the MassBenchmarks Current Economic Index.
• Publication: Economic Impacts of Vermont Yankee Closure

  Dec 2014

  On December 29, 2014, the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (VY) will no longer operate as an energy production facility.
• Preliminary Market Assessment for Brockton CSX Rail Site

  Sep 2013

  For the Metro South Chamber of Commerce, the UMass Donahue Institute evaluated current conditions and redevelopment opportunities at a long vacant large 31 acre site near downtown Brockton.
• City of Springfield Economic Assessment Project

  Jan 2008

  The City of Springfield engaged the UMass Donahue Institute to prepare an assessment of economic needs in Springfield’s low and moderate income neighborhoods.
• The Fiscal Impact of Mixed-Income Housing Developments on Massachusetts Municipalities

  May 2007

  Boston, MA - The burden on municipal budgets of mixed-income homeownership developments in Massachusetts may not be as great as is often assumed, according to a new study prepared by the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute for Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA).
• Massachusetts toward a New Prosperity: Building Regional Competitiveness across the Commonwealth

  Aug 2002

  This study analyzes Massachusetts and its regional economic dynamics for the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development.