I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working in labor, public, and urban economics. I study how new policies and technologies affect people, firms, and cities. My research combines novel data from field experiments, surveys, and new measurement approaches with economic theory.

You can reach me at abartik@illinois.edu or schedule a meeting.

I regularly involve Illinois students in my research; please get in touch.

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Recent Research

• Income Shocks and Intrahousehold Dynamics: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Experiment
  with Elizabeth Rhodes, David Broockman, Eva Vivalt, Patrick Krause, and Sarah Miller; August 2026.
• What Have We Learned from Randomized Controlled Trials of Guaranteed Income?
  with Eva Vivalt, Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Sarah Miller, and Elizabeth Rhodes; January 2026. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of Economic Literature.
• The Costs of Housing Regulation: Evidence From Generative Regulatory Measurement
  with Arpit Gupta and Dan Milo; August 2025.
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2027 Resek Conference

I am co-organizing the 2027 Lois and Robert Resek Conference on Social Protection and Cash Transfers at the University of Illinois (April 2, 2027) — paper submissions for short talks are due November 1, 2026.