Background
McAfee, R. Preston was born in 1956.
McAfee, R. Preston was born in 1956.
Bachelor (highest honors) in Economics, University Florida, 1976. Master of Science in Mathematics, Purdue University, 1978. Master of Science in Economics, Purdue University, 1978.
Doctor of Philosophy in Economics, Purdue University, 1980.
Visiting assistant professor, economics Purdue University, 1980—1981. Assistant professor, economics University Western Ontario, 1981—1987, associate professor economics, 1987—1989, professor economics, 1989—1990. Visiting associate professor economics California Institute of Technology, 1988—1989, visiting professor economics, 1989—1990, executive officer for society science, 2005—2007, J. Stanley Johnson professor (on leave to Yahoo!2007-2009), since 2004.
Visiting professor economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994—1995. Rex G. Baker, Junior professor political economy University Texas, Austin, 1990—1997, Murray S. Johnson chair, 1997—2003. Visiting professor business strategy University Chicago Graduate School Business, 2000—2001.
Vp and research fellow Yahoo! Research, Burbank, California, since 2007. Member advisory board EconJobSearch.org, since 2007. Consultant in field.
Fellow: Econometric Society (program committee, North America winter meetings 2005, member program committee summer meetings 2007). Member: Society for Economic Theory (member executive board since 2005), Society for the Promotion Economic Theory, American Bar Association (associate), American Economics Association (nominating committee 2002, program committee 2004, editor search committee for American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 2006), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Kristin Familari. 2 children.