Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Job Market Candidates for the 2009-10 Academic Year
Below is brief placement history of recent graduates as well as information on candidates who are on the market for the 2009-10 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 D. Roderick Kiewiet
Telephone: 626-395-4032
Email: drk@hss.caltech.edu
Placement Coordinator/Graduate Secretary
Laurel Auchampaugh
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, Harvard Business School, the University of Iowa, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, 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: Baylor College of Medicine, Charles River Associates,the Economic Analysis Group, 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 - 2009-10
Field of Specialization: Political Science
Research Fields - Methods, Political Behavior.
Teaching Fields - TBD.
(Preliminary) Dissertation: " Accounting for Individual Heterogeneity in Political Behavior: A Finite Mixture Modeling Approach"
Dissertation Committee: R. Michael Alvarez (chair), Jonathan Katz, Robert Sherman.
References: R. Michael Alvarez, Jonathan Katz, Robert Sherman .
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Applied Microeconomics, Information Economics, Experimental Economics.
Teaching Fields - Microeconomics and Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics.
(Preliminary) Dissertation: "Eliciting Effort and Information in Noisy Environments"
Dissertation Committee: John Ledyard (Chair), Colin Camerer, Tom Palfrey.
References: John Ledyard, Colin Camerer, Tom Palfrey; Teaching - Charles Plott, Antonio Rangel.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Game Theory, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Computational Economics.
Teaching Fields - Game Theory, Microeconomics, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics.
(Preliminary) Dissertation: "Essays on Repeated Interactions"
Dissertation Committee: John Ledyard (Chair), Jacob Goeree, Leeat Yariv.
References: John Ledyard, Jacob Goeree, Leeat Yariv.
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Non Caltech Post Doctoral Scholar - 2009-10
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Microeconomic Theory, Applied Microeconomics, Market Design, Experimental Economics, Financial Economics.
Teaching Fields - Microeconomics, Game Theory, Market Design, Financial Economics, Experimental Economics.
(Preliminary) Dissertation: "Resource Allocation in Matching Markets"
Dissertation Committee: Paul Milgrom (Stanford), Ilya Segal (Stanford), Muriel Niederle (Stanford).
References: Jacob Goeree (Caltech), Paul Milgrom (Stanford), John Kagel (OSU).
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Non Caltech Job Market Candidate - 2009-10
Field of Specialization: Finance and Economics
Research Fields - Financial Economics, Behavioral Economics and Finance, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics, Computational Economics.
Teaching Fields - Financial Economics, Introduction to Finance, Options, Behavioral Finance, Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Neuroeconomics.
Dissertation: "Essays on Decision Making Under Uncertainty"
Dissertation Committee: Peter Bossaerts (Caltech/Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL), Colin Camerer (Caltech), Giorgio Coricelli (Institute of Cognitive Sciences, Lyon), Julien Hugonnier (Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL), Semyon Malamud (Swiss Finance Institute, EPFL), Antonio Rangel (Caltech)
References: Peter Bossaerts (Caltech), Colin Camerer (Caltech), Antonio Rangel (Caltech), Dimitri Vayanos (London School of Economics)
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
Non Caltech Post Doctoral Scholar - 2009-10
Field of Specialization: Economics
Research Fields - Microeconomics, Game Theory, Political Economy, Experimental Economics.
Teaching Fields - Microeconomics, Game Theory, Political Economy, Experimental Economics.
Dissertation: "Voting Mechanisms and Negotiation in Multi-Issue Bargaining Situations."
Advisor: Rosemarie Nagel.
References: Thomas R. Palfrey (Caltech), Rosemarie Nagel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), and Antonio Cabrales (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).
C.V. (Includes papers, work in progress, conference participation and papers, brief explanation of research and teaching experience.)
