Biography
Robert W. Walker is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University. He earned a Ph. D. in political science from the University of Rochester in 2005 and has previously held teaching positions at Dartmouth College, Rice University, Texas A&M University, and Washington University in Saint Louis. He teaches courses in quantitative methods/applied statistics and microeconomic strategy and his research falls at the intersection of statistical methods and the public sector. His current work spans entrepreneurship in conflict zones, causal inference with big data on hiring preferences in the US federal service, longitudinal workplace stress, statistical decision-making and large language models, and the consequences of advertisements on perceptions of smoking harms.
