He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an associate editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science, a member of the Academic Research Council at the Housing Finance Policy Center at the Urban Institute, and a fellow at the Center for Financial Security at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, Keys was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy and an economist in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His research interests include mortgage finance, household finance, real estate, applied econometrics, and urban economics. Keys earned a B.A. from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.