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Job Market Candidates

Placement Directors

SS Option Representative SDN Option Representative
Professor Marina Agranov
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (626) 395-3559
Professor John O'Doherty
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (626) 395-5981

Placement Coordinator

Division Option Manager, HSS Undergraduate Options, and Social Science Graduate Programs
Tel: (626) 395-4206
Fax: (626) 405-9841

Below is information on the candidates who are on the job market in the current academic year. Click on a candidate's name to link to that person's profile with more detailed information. For placement history of graduates of the HSS PhD programs, please see the alumni listings page.

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Graduate Students

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Matthew Estes
PhD Candidate

Thesis Committee: Michael Alvarez (advisor), Jim Greiner, Jonathan N. Katz, Bob Sherman
Job Market Paper: "Eviction Reduction Policies: Do More Courts Reduce Defaults in LA County?"
Email: [email protected]

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sumit Goel

Sumit Goel
Postdoctoral Associate in the Division of Social Science, New York University Abu Dhabi

Thesis Committee: Federico Echenique (Advisor), Thomas Palfrey, Omer Tamuz, Kota Saito
Job Market Paper: "The effect of competition in contests: A unifying approach"
Email: [email protected]

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Jeffrey Zeidel
Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Behavioral Institutional Design, NYU Abu Dhabi

Job Market Paper: "Luck and Learning in Games"
Email: [email protected]