Timothy J. Bartik
W. E. Upjohn Institute
Senior Economist
Dr. Timothy J. Bartik’s research focuses on state and local economic development and local labor markets. His work spans areas such as evaluating economic development programs; how investment in early childhood programs affects local economies; the benefits of higher education institutions for local economic development;and alternative policies for increasing labor demand for the poor.
Among his many books and book chapters, Dr. Bartik’s Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Demand Policies Help? in 2001 was named a “Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics” by Princeton University’s Industrial Relations Section. Other titles include “‘Eds and Meds’ and Metropolitan Economic Development,” in Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Howard Wial, Hal Wolman, and Margery Turner, editors, Washington, DC, Brookings Institution, 2008 (with George Erickcek); A Future of Good Jobs? America’s Challenge in the Global Economy, coedited with Susan Houseman, Kalamazoo, MI, Upjohn Institute, 2008; and “Urban Labor Markets,” in A Companion to Urban Economics, Richard Arnott and Daniel McMillen, editors, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2006 (with Randall Eberts).
Working Group
Early Childhood Interventions (ECI)