James C Davis
U.S. Census Bureau
Boston Census
Research Data Center
National Bureau of Economic Research
1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-613-1215, Fax: 617-613-1248
jdavis@nber.org
http://www.nber.org/~jdavis
Version 2012.01.03
Employment
2001-present U.S. Census Bureau: Economist and RDC Administrator
1996-2001 Brown University: TA, RA, and Course Instructor
1999-2000 World Bank: Consultant (summer 1999, fall 2000)
1985-1995 International Business Machines: Senior Client Executive, U.S. Sales & Marketing
Education
2004 Ph.D.,
Economics,
1985 Sc.B., Electrical Engineering,
Publications
The Agglomeration of Headquarters Regional Science and Urban Economics 38(5): 445-460 (2008). Joint w/ J.V. Henderson. Working paper CES-WP-04-02.
Spatial
Organization of Firms: The decision to split production and administration
Regional Analysis Using Census Bureau Micro Data At the Center for Economic Studies International Regional Science Review 29(3): 278-296 (2006). Joint w/ B. Holly.
Evidence on the Political Economy of the Urbanization Process Journal of Urban Economics 53(1): 98-125 (2003). Joint w/ J.V. Henderson. Publicly available data that are used in this paper can be found here.
Working Papers
The Contribution of
Dispersion across Plants to the Increase in US Earnings Dispersion, 1977-2002 (March 2010). Joint w/
E. Barth, A. Bryson and R. Freeman.
Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency
Services (August
2009). Joint w/ M.Arzaghi, E. Berndt and A. Silk. Working papers NBER
14345, CES-WP-09-15,
HBS
11-039.
Regional Concentration and Change in Self-Employed Businesses in the U.S. (February 2008). Joint w/ A. Clark and B. Holly.
Urban Resurgence (November 2007) Joint w/ M. Arzaghi.
Spatial Mobility and Geographic Concentration (April 2005). Joint w/ M. Arzaghi.
Headquarter-Service and Industrial Urban
Specialization with Transport Costs (December
2003)
Grants
2011-2014, Russell Sage Foundation, Special Initiatives: The Social Effects of the Great Recession, “Employment and Wages in Recession and Recovery, 1954-2010,” Co-investigator. (with E. Barth, A. Bryson, R. Freeman)
2010 – 2013, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant, “Evolution and Success of Entrepreneurial Activity: Evidence from Micro-Data.” Co-investigator. (with W. Kerr, R. Nanda, D. Nandy)
2009 – 2012, National Science Foundation (NSF), SciSIP Research Grant, “Scientists and Engineers as Agents of Technological Progress: Measuring the Returns to R&D and the Economic Impact of Science & Engineering Workers.” Unfunded collaborator. (with E. Barth, R. Freeman, G. Marschke, A. Wang)
Affiliations
American Economic Association
Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Urban Economics Association
Referee
American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Economic Geography, Journal of Economic Geography, National Science Foundation, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Urban Economics
Presentations
Social Science History Association, Boston, 2011
RDC Annual Conference, U. Minnesota, 2011, U. Maryland, 2010, Cornell, 2009, Chicago Fed, 2003
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Pittsburgh, 2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, ACRDC Conference, 2011
Association of Public Data Users, Webinar, 2011
Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, 2009, 2006, 2005, 2001
Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, 2009
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009
Western Regional Science Association International, Waikoloa, 2008, San Diego, 2005
Harvard University, Cambridge, 2007
Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, Guest Instructor, INFO 747 Social and Economic Data, 2007
Comparative Analysis of Enterprise (Micro) Data (CAED), Chicago 2006
Regional Science Association International, Toronto 2006, Seattle 2004, San Juan 2002
Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, NBER, Washington D.C., 2005
American-Canadian Research Conference on Research Data Centres, Montreal 2003
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2001
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Professional Education
Stata Fundamentals, Panel Data, and Bootstrapping, Suitland, 2009
The Many Faces of Leadership,
SAS Programming I-III: Advanced
Techniques,
Statistical Disclosure and
Disclosure Limitation, U. of Maryland Institute, Arlington, 2005
RDC Administrator Training, Center for Economic Studies, Suitland, 2001-09
IBM Client Executive Program, Harvard Business School, Boston, 1994-95
CPIM Certified, American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS),
1991-92
IBM Education: Client Relationship Program, Project Management, Entry Marketing Program
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