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David Finifter
David H. Finifter is Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and Public Policy at The College of William and Mary. He served as founding director of The Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at William and Mary, a position he held from 1987 to 2000. He was also founding director of the Program’s Center for Public Policy Research. His teaching and scholarly interests include the economics of higher education and public policy, human resource economics, science and technology policy, evaluation and benefit/cost analysis, labor economics, public health service delivery and finance, and microeconomics and econometrics applied to public policy analysis. Dr. Finifter has been on the faculty at The College of William and Mary since completing his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh. He also holds a B.S. degree from Loyola College of Maryland and an M.A. degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Finifter has published several articles and reports in the area of evaluation of human resources and public policy on issues including federally subsidized employment and training programs, and veterans' job training programs. He has also published research on workplace literacy and productivity. He has co-edited two books on higher education and public policy and a special edition of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Business on health care policy. He has served as a consultant to several federal government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Labor, the Veterans Administration, NASA, Sandia National Laboratories, and the Environmental Protection Agency. During 1978-79, he served as a Staff Associate in Employment Policy at the Brookings Institution and the U.S. Department of Labor. During the summer of 1995, he served as a faculty summer fellow, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) at NASA-Langley Research Center, and worked on technology transfer policy and performance measurement/metrics.
Dr. Finifter’s research over the past few years has emphasized work in collaboration with Dr. Robert B. Archibald on the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. They evaluated the SBIR Program at NASA-Langley Research Center and for the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the National Academy of Sciences team working on the SBIR Fast Track Program. Dr. Finifter also has a research interest in the future of graduate and professional education and the linkages to research funding.
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