Joshua Drucker, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Drucker's research explores the processes of regional economic development and transformation, seeking to analyze and understand economic conditions of growth, decline, and adjustment in order to enable the design of policies to achieve and sustain positive economic development outcomes. Recent research projects have examined the impact of regional industrial structure and agglomeration economies on firm performance, the intersection of creativity and human capital in economic development, and the economic impact of institutions of higher education.
Joshua Drucker joined the Department of Urban Planning and Policy in August of 2008. Originally from the Detroit area, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Michigan and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to and during his academic studies, he was a research associate with the Technology Partnership Practice of the Battelle Memorial Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, engaging in technology-based economic development research and consulting. He has also worked with the North Carolina Department of Commerce and the Southern Growth Policies Board on projects ranging from industry and impact studies and economic development strategies to analyses of technology policy and the development and programming of automated economic analysis tools. Drucker became a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners in 2002.
Courses
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UPP 306 Urban Policy Analysis Methods
UPP 530 Economic Development I: Analysis
UPP 531 Economic Development II: Planning
Research
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Influences of regional characteristics on economic performance; technology-based economic development; the causes of differential development trajectories; and analytical methods useful in the practice of economic development.
Publications
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Donegan, M., Drucker, J., Goldstein, H., Lowe, N., & Malizia, E. (2008). Which indicators explain metropolitan economic performance best? Traditional or creative class. Journal of the American Planning Association, 74 (2): 180-195.
Drucker, J., & Goldstein, H. (2007). Assessing the regional economic development impacts of universities: A review of current approaches. International Regional Science Review, 30 (1): 1-27.
Goldstein, H., & Drucker, J. (2006). The economic development impacts of universities on regions: Do size and distance matter? Economic Development Quarterly, 20 (1): 22-43.
Drucker, J., & Khattak, A.J. (2000). The propensity to work from home: Modeling results from the 1995 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey. Transportation Research Record, 1706.
Contact
jdruck@uic.edu
Room 221 (MC 348)
312-413-7597