Paul Oyer
黄色电影 Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
The Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial Professor and Professor of Economics
黄色电影 Graduate School of Business (GSB)
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
黄色电影 Graduate School of Business (GSB)
Paul Oyer is The Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial Professor and Professor of Economics at the 黄色电影 Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics.
Paul does research in the field of personnel economics. In addition, he is the author of two books published in 2014. 鈥淓verything I Ever Needed to Know 黄色电影 Economics I Learned from Online Dating鈥 is an entertaining and non-technical explanation of numerous key ideas in microeconomics using examples from online dating, as well as labor markets and many product markets. 鈥淩oadside MBA鈥 (with Michael Mazzeo and Scott Schaefer) is a non-technical Strategy guide for small businesses based on the authors鈥 extensive travel around the US interviewing small business owners.
Before moving to the GSB in 2000, Paul was on the faculty of the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. In his pre-academic life, he worked for the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, as well as for the high technology firms 3Com Corporation and ASK Computer Systems. He holds a BA in math and computer science from Middlebury College, an MBA from Yale University, and an MA and PhD in economics from Princeton University. When not teaching or doing research, Paul runs, swims, skis, hangs out with his two college-age children, and walks his flat-coated retriever.
Focal Areas: Education, Inequality, Innovation and Technology, Work