Anne E. Preston
Anne E. Preston (born June 17, 1955) is an economist and currently a professor at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, where she teaches Economics courses including Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Women in the Labor Market and Sports Economics. Preston's focus is on career opportunities for scientists and engineers and more broadly on the gender differences. Life. Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Preston graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in Economics and was granted the Undergraduate Thesis Award. She then went on to pursue her master's degree at Harvard University Graduate School of  Arts and Sciences, followed by Ph.D. in Economics with special fields in labor economics and industrial organization in 1983. She married Casey Ichniowski, an economist at Columbia Business School, in 1984, and they had three children together. Ichniowski died in 2014. The couple collaborated in conducting a study titled "Does March Madness Lead to Irrational Exuberance in the NBA Draft? High-Value Employee Selection Decisions and Decision-Making Bias" in 2012. Career. She served eight years (1992-2000) as the Associate Professor at Harriman School for Public Policy and Management at Stony Brook University where she taught economics, business and  public policy courses to undergraduate as well as graduate students. Around the same time, she was also the Director of Evaluation at WISE (Women in Science and Engineering), a program that aimed at increasing the engagement of women in the fields of science and engineering. Her presence at the Russell Sage Foundation as the visiting scholar was a great contribution to the organization that helps in the funding of research related to income inequality.