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