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The Impact Of Marginal Business Taxes On State Manufacturing, Richard Funderburg, Timothy Bartik, Alan Peters, Peter Fisher

Timothy J. Bartik

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The Revitalization Of Older Industrial Cities: A Review Essay Of Retooling For Growth, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Why Investing In Kids Makes Sense For Local Economies, Timothy J. Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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How Policymakers Should Deal With The Delayed Benefits Of Early Childhood Programs, Timothy J. Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

This is a draft of a chapter of a planned book, Preschool and Jobs: Human Development as Economic Development, and Vice Versa [subsequently published as Investing in Kids, 2011]. This chapter considers a problem with early childhood programs: their effects on earnings are mostly long-delayed. The delay occurs because most earnings effects are on former child participants. The chapter considers appropriate discounting of benefits and how the upfront costs of early childhood programs can be delayed or reduced. It also addresses how the long-run benefits of early childhood programs can be moved up or increased.

The Impact Of State And Local Taxes On Growth Using Improved Tax Measures, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

In collaboration with Alan Peters and Peter Fisher of the University of Iowa, this research project provided important new evidence on a long-standing controversy in academic and public policy circles: whether tax incentives are a cost-effective means of stimulating state economic growth. The research used a superior measure of the crucial explanatory variable—state and local taxes on business—and tested the sensitivity of the results to the kind of tax measure used. This project refocused scholarly debate on replicable findings about the impact of state and local business taxes on economic growth. The results were disseminated to the economic development policy …

The Effects Of Property Taxes And Other Local Public Policies On The Intrametropolitan Pattern Of Business Location, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Bringing Jobs To People: How Federal Policy Can Target Job Creation For Economically Distressed Areas, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Preschool And Economic Development, Timothy J. Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Solving The Problems Of Economic Development Incentives, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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The Revitalization Of Older Industrial Cities: A Review Essay Of Retooling For Growth, Timothy J. Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

This review essay debates the policy issues raised by the book Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America's Older Industrial Areas, edited by Richard M. McGahey and Jennifer S. Vey (Brookings Institution Press, 2008). I argue that the main rationale for adopting policies to revitalize older industrial cities is to improve the per capita earnings of urban residents. Therefore, urban economic development policy should be seen as urban labor market policy. Increasing city residents' earnings requires progress on two fronts: increasing metropolitan labor demand; increasing the quantity and quality of the effective labor supply of city residents …

Strategies For Economic Development, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Who Benefits? Distributional Effects Of Early Childhood Programs And Business Incentives, And Their Implications For Policy, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Small Business Start-Ups In The United States: Estimates Of The Effects Of Characteristics Of States, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Early Childhood Programs As An Economic Development Tool: Investing Early To Prepare The Future Workforce, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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The New Jobs Tax Credit: A Tested Way To Fight High Unemployment, Timothy J. Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Economic Impact Of Businesses Assisted By Southwest Michigan First, George A. Erickcek, Randall W. Eberts

Randall W. Eberts

This report estimates the contribution to the Kalamazoo-Portage MSA's economy by businesses that have received substantial assistance from Southwest Michigan First (SMF), a private, not-for-profit economic development agency serving the greater Kalamazoo region. The report examines the trends in employment, gross regional product, and wages and salaries generated by the 105 firms that SMF staff identified as receiving substantial assistance from SMF between 2000 and 2008. The estimates extend through the year 2012 in order to capture the employment projections offered by some of the assisted firms. The study also provides upper bound estimates of the benefit-cost ratio of the …

Targeted Business Incentives And Local Labor Markets, Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman

Teaching New Markets Old Tricks: The Effects Of Subsidized Investment On Low-Income Neighborhoods, Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman

Investing In Kids: Early Childhood Programs And Local Economic Development, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

Early childhood programs, if designed correctly, pay big economic dividends down the road because they increase the skills of their participants. And since many of those participants will remain in the same state or local area as adults, the local economy benefits: more persons with better skills attract business, which provides more and better jobs for the local economy. Bartik measures ratios of local economic development benefits to costs for both early childhood education and business incentives. He shows that early childhood programs and the best-designed business incentives can provide local benefits that significantly exceed costs. Given this, states and …

The Economic Development Effects Of Early Childhood Programs, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Solving The Problems Of Economic Development Incentives, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Increasing The Economic Development Benefits Of Higher Education In Michigan, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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The Market Failure Approach To Regional Economic Development Policy, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

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Who Benefits From State And Local Economic Development Policies?, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

Bartik reviews evidence on whether state and local policies affect job growth. He then presents empirical data supporting the intentions of such programs, showing that job growth may lead to a number of positive long-term effects including: lower unemployment, higher labor force participation, higher real estate values, and better occupational opportunities. He also shows that the earnings gains to disadvantaged groups outweigh the resulting increased real estate values for property owners, and concludes by saying that regional competition for jobs may actually be a benefit for the nation as a whole.

Small Business Start-Ups In The United States: Estimates Of The Effects Of Characteristics Of States, Timothy Bartik

Timothy J. Bartik

No abstract provided.