Paul Oyer was born and raised in Nutley, New Jersey. He went to Middlebury College in Vermont, where he learned to write (arguably) decently as the Managing Editor of the campus newspaper. He also developed his skiing, which he continues to do whenever he can. After college, Paul worked for a few different companies in New York City and Silicon Valley and earned an MBA at Yale. But he eventually realized that he loved to do analytical and academic work so he entered the PhD program at Princeton University. After a few years on the faculty of Northwestern University's Kellogg School, Paul fell into a job at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and has been there since 2000. Paul has visited all of the fifty United States. He lives with his wife, Kathryn Stoner (a Stanford Political Scientist) and two dogs in Stanford, CA. Book Home Page: https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/egttg
