James C Davis
Senior Economist
Economic Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
PO Box 419205, MS 9999
Kansas City, MO 64141-6205
Phone: 401-477-6231
james.davis2@usda.gov
http://www.nber.org/~jdavis
Employment
2021-present Economic Research Service, USDA: Senior Economist
2001-2021 U.S. Census Bureau: Economist, RDC Administrator and Team Lead
1996-2001 Brown University: TA, RA, and Course Instructor
1999-2000 World Bank: Consultant (summer 1999, fall 2000)
1985-1995 IBM: Senior Marketing Representative
Education
2004 Ph.D.,
Economics, Brown University
1985 Sc.B., Electrical Engineering, Brown University
Publications
Augmenting the
Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work Journal of Labor Economics, 36(S1), pp. S71-S97 (2018).
Joint w/ Erling Barth and Richard Freeman. Working paper
NBER 22512.
The Effects of
Scientists and Engineers on Productivity and Earnings at the Establishment Where
They Work in U.S. Engineering in a
Global Economy, Richard Freeman and Hal Salzman,
eds., Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press (2018). Joint w/ Erling Barth, Richard Freeman and Andrew Wang. Working
paper NBER 23484.
Weathering the
Great Recession: Variation in Employment Responses by Establishments and
Countries RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the
Social Sciences, 3(3), pp. 50-69 (2017). Joint w/ Erling
Barth, Richard Freeman and Sari Kerr. Working paper NBER 22432.
It’s Where You Work: Increases in the Dispersion of Earnings across Establishments and Individuals in the United States Journal of Labor Economics 34(S2), pp. S67-S97 (2016). Joint w/ Erling Barth, Alex Bryson and Richard Feeman. Working paper NBER 20447, CES-WP 14-33.
The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis Review of Marketing Science 10(1): (2012). Joint w/ Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst Berndt, Alvin Silk. Working papers NBER 14345, CES-WP-09-15, HBS 11-039.
The Agglomeration of Headquarters Regional Science and Urban Economics 38(5): 445-460 (2008). Joint w/ J.Vernon Henderson. Working paper CES-WP-04-02.
Spatial Organization of Firms: The decision to split production and administration Rand Journal of Economics 38(2): 480-494 (2007). Joint w/ Kristin Aarland, J.Vernon Henderson, Yukako Ono. Working paper CES-WP-04-03.
Regional Analysis Using Census Bureau Micro Data At the Center for Economic Studies International Regional Science Review 29(3): 278-296 (2006). Joint w/ Brian Holly.
Evidence on the Political Economy of the Urbanization Process Journal of Urban Economics 53(1): 98-125 (2003). Joint w/ J.Vernon Henderson. Publicly available data that are used in this paper can be found here.
Working Papers
Twisting the Demand Curve, Digitization and the Older Workforce (July 2020). Joint w/ Erling Barth, Richard Freeman and Kristina McElheran.
R&D Spillovers and Labor Mobility (November 2017). Joint w/ Erling Barth, Richard Freeman, Gerald Marschke and Andrew Wang.
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
2019 – 2022, National Science Foundation (NSF), “Economic Impact of Investments in R&D and Science and Engineering Workers,” Senior Investigator. (with Gerald Marschke, Erling Barth, Richard Freeman and Andrew Wang) NCSE-1918445.
2017 – 2020, National Science Foundation (NSF), “Labor Market Outcomes of STEM PhDs: Measuring Career Earnings and Occupation Trajectories,” Senior Investigator. (with Gerald Marschke and Andrew Wang) DGE-1661278.
2012 – 2015, National Science Foundation (NSF), “Market Access and Border Entrepreneurship.” Co-investigator. (with Wayne Gray, William Kerr, Karthik Krishnan and Debarshi Nandy) SES-1156246.
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 Erling Barth and Richard 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 William Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Debarshi Nandy)
2009 – 2013, 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 Erling Barth, Richard Freeman, Gerald Marschke and Andrew Wang) SBE-0915670
Affiliations
American Economic
Association
Conference on Research in Income and Wealth
Society for Economic Measurement
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
Cornell University, CISER, 2020
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2019
Urban Economics Association, Columbia, New York, 2018
Northeastern University, Boston, 2017
American Economic Association, Chicago, 2017
Census Bureau, Innovation Measurement Initiative, Suitland,
2016
Texas A&M, RDC Annual Conference, College Station, 2016
American Economic Association, San Francisco, 2016
Society for Economic Measurement, Chicago, 2014
Census Bureau, RDC Annual Conference, Suitland, 2014
Harvard Business School, Boston, 2014
Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, Suitland, 2013
Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012
American Society of Health Economists, Minneapolis, 2012
Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, Suitland, 2012
Social Science History Association, Boston, 2011
Brandeis University, 2011
University of Minnesota, RDC Annual Conference, 2011
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Pittsburgh, 2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, ACRDC Conference, 2011
Association of Public Data Users, Webinar, 2011
University of Maryland, RDC Annual Conference, 2010
Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, Suitland, 2009
Cornell University, RDC Annual Conference, 2009
Western Economic Association International, Vancouver, 2009
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009
Western Regional Science Association International, Waikoloa, 2008
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
Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, Suitland, 2006
Regional Science Association International, Toronto 2006
Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, Suitland, 2005
Conference on Research in Income and Wealth, NBER, Washington D.C., 2005
Western Regional Science Association International, San Diego, 2005
Regional Science Association International, Seattle 2004
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, RDC Annual Conference, 2003
American-Canadian Research Conference on Research Data Centres, Montreal 2003
Regional Science Association International, San Juan 2002
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 2001
Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies, Suitland, 2001
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington D.C., 2001
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