James Davis is an economist and team lead RDC administrator at the Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau. He has been the administrator of the Boston Federal Statistical Research Data Center since 2001, located at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research studies income inequality, science and engineering labor markets, and urban agglomeration. Jim received his PhD in economics from Brown University in 2004, returning to graduate studies after ten years as a marketing representative for IBM. Before that he received a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1985.