Walter W. McMahon

Walter W. McMahon is Professor of Economics and Professor of Education Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an expert on the economics of education and well known internationally, author of Education and Development: Measuring the Social Benefits (Oxford University Press, 2002), and of numerous articles, including “An Analysis of Education Externalities and Development in the Deep South,” in Contemporary Economic Policy, and “Education Finance Policy; Financing the Non-Market and Social Benefits,” in the Journal of Education Finance. Professor McMahon has consulted widely in developing and European countries for the World Bank, USAID, OECD, and other governments and international agencies. He has been at the Brookings Institution and a Fellow at universities in the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, and Sweden. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and past Chair of the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.