James Bang
Fellow at St. Ambrose University
Davenport, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolJames Bang is an economist and data scientist with over a decade of experience studying how globalization shapes labor markets and development outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. As a Fellow at the Global Labor Organization and a long-serving professor at St. Ambrose University, he blends rigorous applied econometrics, causal inference, and machine learning with hands-on policy research and teaching across labor, health, immigration, and gender economics. He has a Ph.D. from UIUC and a track record of designing graduate curricula, directing programs, and leading departmental assessment—skills that reflect both scholarly depth and practical academic leadership. Known jokingly as a "casual causalist" and a lifelong data enthusiast, he brings an educator’s clarity to complex empirical problems and a penchant for translating research into policy-relevant insights.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBA & BS, Economics, BA & BS, Economics at Truman State University
English, German, Russian, Latvian
Stackoverflow
11reputation
0reached
2answers
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Github Skills (28)
r-package8
excel6
r6
binary-classification5
transform5
predictive-modeling5
hypothesis-tests5
explainable-artificial-intelligence5
xai4
cross-validation4
interpretable-machine-learning4
iml3
social-network-analysis3
rmarkdown3
html3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bangecon/Growth-MachineLearning
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
bangecon/MicroWithR
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 75 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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