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SCHOLARS &
FELLOWS
Steven J. Davis
Visiting Scholar
RESOURCES
RESEARCH AREAS
- Impact of taxes on work and leisure time
- Labor market issues
- Job creation, employment, and unemployment
Contact
E-mail: sdavis@aei.org
Phone: 773-702-7312
Fax: 773-834-0733
Assistant: Dharana Rijal
Assistant E-mail: dharana.rijal@aei.org
Assistant Phone: 202-862-5906
Biography
Steven J. Davis studies the effect of taxes on work activity, the creation and loss of jobs, the employment impact of wage-setting rules, and other labor market issues. He is a professor of international business and economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He previously taught at Brown University and MIT and served as a consultant and researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. As a visiting scholar at AEI, Mr. Davis studies how tax differences in states and countries lead to differences in employment, household work, and leisure time.
Experience
- Vice President, CRA International, Inc., 2007-present
- Board Member, Chicago Census Research Data Center, 2002-present
- William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics, 2001-present; Professor, 1994-2001; Associate Professor, 1989-94; Assistant Professor, 1985-89, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
- Research Associate, 1995-present; Faculty Research Fellow, 1991-95; Organizer, Group on Labor Market Dynamics and Aggregate Fluctuations, 1988-92, National Bureau of Economic Research
- Principal, Chicago Partners, 1995-present
- Member, Panel on Federal Business Statistics, Committee on National Statistics, National Academy of Sciences, 2004-2006
- Member, Executive Committee, Northwestern/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research, 1998-2000
- Visiting Scholar, Milken Institute for Job and Capital Formation, 1994
- Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993-94
- Consultant and Research Associate, Corporate Studies Group, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1991-93
- Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Maryland, 1990
- National Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1988-89
- Teaching Fellow, Brown University, 1983-85
Education
Ph.D., M.A., economics, Brown University B.A., economics, Portland State University
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Books
Job Creation and Destruction
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