NBER profile: Steven J. Davis.

Steven J. Davis is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Labor Studies, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, and Energy and Environmental Economics. He is also the William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

Davis grew up mostly in Portland, Oregon, the oldest of five boys. Like his father, he attended Central Catholic High School and Portland State University, from which he received his B.A. in Economics. He holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University.

Davis has taught at the University of Chicago, MIT, the University of Maryland, and Brown University. His work on employment and wage behavior, worker mobility, job loss, the effects of labor market institutions...