Contact Information
202-452-2909
benjamin.j.keys@frb.gov

Fields of Interest
Labor Economics
Consumer Finance
Econometrics and Statistics

Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 2009
M.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 2005
B.A., Economics and Political Science, Swarthmore College, 2001

Professional Experience
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2009-present

Selected Publications

• ''Did Securitization Lead to Lax Screening? Evidence from Subprime Loans'' (with Tanmoy K. Mukherjee, Amit Seru, and Vikrant Vig), Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 125 (February 2010).
• ''Financial Regulation and Securitization: Evidence from Subprime Mortgage Loans'' (with Tanmoy Mukherjee, Amit Seru, and Vikrant Vig), Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 56 (July 2009), pp. 700-20.
• ''Has Exposure to Poor Neighbourhoods Changed in America? Race, Risk and Housing Locations in Two Decades'' (with Xavier de Souza Briggs), Urban Studies, vol. 46 (February 2009), pp. 429-58.
• ''Hurt the Worst: The Risk of Unemployment Among Disadvantaged and Advantaged Male Workers, 1968-2003'' (with Sheldon Danziger), in Katherine S. Newman, ed., Laid Off, Laid Low: Political and Economic Consequences of Employment Insecurity. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2009.
• ''Trends in Income and Consumption Volatility, 1970-2000,'' in Dean Jolliffe and James P. Ziliak, eds., Income Volatility and Food Assistance in the United States. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2008.
• ''Does Merit Pay Reward Teachers? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment'' (with Thomas S. Dee), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 23 (Summer 2004), pp. 471-88.