Keith Finlay

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. University of California, Irvine

B.A. Reed College

Research interests: labor economics, applied econometrics, urban economics, public policy

205 Tilton Hall

504-862-8345

kfinlay@tulane.edu

Personal website: greenspace.tulane.edu/kfinlay

Vitae

Short bio

Keith Finlay received his B.A. in economics from Reed College. He completed his doctoral work in economics in 2007 at the University of California, Irvine.

His dissertation, "External Effects of Incarceration in Labor and Marriage Markets," explores the effect of greater employer access to criminal history records on the labor market outcomes of ex-offenders and non-offenders. Dr. Finlay is currently working on projects examining low skill labor markets and the labor market effects of pre-employment screening.

Selected publications

Keith Finlay and Leandro M. Magnusson. Forthcoming. Implementing Weak Instrument Robust Tests for a General Class of Instrumental Variables Models. Stata Journal.

Keith Finlay. Forthcoming. Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders. In David H. Autor, editor, Studies of Labor Market Intermediation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and NBER.