Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Job Market Candidates for the 2011-12 Academic Year
Below is brief placement history of recent graduates as well as information on candidates who are on the market for the 2011-12 academic year. By clicking on the candidate's name, you will be linked to the candidate's profile that includes more detailed information consisting of their c.v., dissertation abstract, and teaching and research interests. Should you have any questions, please contact the appropriate individual listed below.
Placement Director and Director of Graduate Studies
Professor Federico Echenique
Telephone: 626-395-4273
Email: fede@hss.caltech.edu
Placement Coordinator/Option Admin
Option Admin
Telephone: 626-395-4206
Fax: 626-405-9841
Email: gradsec@hss.caltech.edu
Mailing Address
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
228-77
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Brief Placement History of Recent Graduates
The Caltech Social Science Ph.D. program prepares students to work at top universities and organizations by maximizing their research productivity during the course of their graduate career. To that end, our program is designed to build skills to conduct original research thereby leading the students to write a dissertation, which will contribute something original to scientific knowledge.
The unique combination we provide our students has prepared them to be placed in various academic institutions recently including, but not limited to: the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Chicago, Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, Harvard Business School, the University of Iowa, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, University of Pittsburg, Purdue University, Texas A&M, University of Texas - Austin, and the University of Rhode Island.
Other students chose other equally challenging career paths leading them to industries and organizations (non-academic positions) including, but not limited to: Alfred-Weber Institut, Baylor College of Medicine, Charles River Associates,the Economic Analysis Group, ECARES, Hewlett-Packard Labs, McKinsey and Company, and Telcordia Technologies.
For complete information on our long-standing placement history, please click here.
Caltech Job Market Candidates - 2011-12
Dustin Beckett
Economics Research Fields - Experimental Economics, Micro Theory
Economics Teaching Fields - Experimental Economics, Micro Theory, IO, Game Theory
Dissertation Title: An Economic Approach to Aggregated Product Feedback.
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Palfrey (chair), John Ledyard, Matias Iaryczower
References: Tom Palfrey, John Ledyard, Matias Iaryczower
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Luke Boosey
Research Fields - Game Theory, Public Economics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Regulatory Economics
Economics Teaching Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Public Economics, Experimental Economics, Environmental Economics, Matching Theory
Dissertation Title: Essays on Information, Cooperation and Competition.
Dissertation Committee: John Ledyard (Chair), Federico Echenique, and Leeat Yariv.
References: John Ledyard, Federico Echenique, Leeat Yariv, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Muruvvet Buyukboyaci
Research Fields - Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics
Economics Teaching Fields - Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory
Dissertation Title: The Effects of Heterogeneity in Contests, Coordination Games, and Matching.
Dissertation Committee: Leeat Yariv (chair), Thomas Palfrey, and Federico Echenique.
References: Leeat Yariv, Thomas Palfrey, Federico Echenique
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Cary Frydman
Research Fields - Behavioral Finance, Neurofinance, Experimental Economics, Learning in Markets
Teaching Fields - Financial Economics, Microeconomics, Behavioral Finance, Neuroeconomics .
Dissertation Title: Essays in Neurofinance.
Dissertation Committee: Antonio Rangel, Peter Bossaerts, Colin Camerer and Nicholas Barberis.
References: Antonio Rangel, Peter Bossaerts, Colin Camerer and Nicholas Barberis.
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Vanessa Janowski
Research Fields - Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, and Neuroeconomics
Teaching Fields - Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, and Neuroeconomics.
Dissertation Title: Computational Biases in Decision-making Under Risk
Dissertation Committee: Antonio Rangel, Peter Bossaerts and Pietro Ortoleva.
References: Antonio Rangel, Colin Camerer, and Ralph Adolphs
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Sang Mok Lee
Research Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Matching Theory, and Revealed Preference
Teaching Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Matching Theory, and Revealed Preference.
Dissertation Title: Three Essays on Matching and Strategic Voting.
Dissertation Committee: Federico Echenique, Matt Shum, and Leeat Yariv.
References: Federico Echenique, Matt Shum, Leeat Yariv, and Chris Chambers (UCSD).
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Salvatore Nunnari
Research Fields - Political Economy/Positive Political Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Experimental Economics and Political Science
Teaching Fields - Political Economy, Game Theory, Microeconomics, American Politics
Dissertation Title: Essays on Dynamic Political Economy.
Dissertation Committee: Thomas Palfrey (Chair), Andrea Mattozzi, and Erik Snowberg.
References: Thomas Palfrey, Andrea Mattozzi (EUI), Erik Snowberg, Howard Rosenthal (NYU), and Marco Battaglini (Princeton).
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Ines Levin (Postdoc)
Research Fields - Political Behavior, Quantitative Research Methods.
Teaching Fields - Political Behavior, Voting and Elections, Quantitative Research Methods, American Politics, Latin American Politics
Dissertation Title: A New Approach for the Study of Political Participation.
Dissertation Committee: Michael Alvarez, Roderick Kiewiet, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Jonathan Katz.
References: Michael Alvarez, Jonathan Katz, Roderick Kiewiet, Peter Ordeshook, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
Home Page (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
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Alec Smith (Postdoc)
Research Fields - Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics, Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory
Teaching Fields - Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics, Game Theory, Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Strategy
Dissertation Title: Beliefs and Emotions in Games and Decisions.
Dissertation Committee: Anna Breman (University of Arizona), Terry Connolly (University of Arizona), Martin Dufwenberg (Advisor - University of Arizona).
References: Colin Camerer (Caltech), Martin Dufwenberg (University of Arizona), Antonio Rangel (Caltech).
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