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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 Dean Mobbs
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (626) 395-4028

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 Student

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Paulo Matos
PhD Candidate in Social Sciences (Political Economy)

Thesis Committee: Michael Gibilisco (Advisor), Alexander Hirsch, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Maria Micaela Sviatchi (Princeton)
Job Market Paper: "We Have Your Back? Discretion in Police Discipline and Peer Effects on Officer Misconduct"
Email: [email protected]

Postdoctoral Researchers

Sumit Goel

Sumit Goel (PhD '23, Social Sciences)
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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Kexin Feng (PhD '25, Social Sciences)
Postdoctoral Associate, Economic Growth Center, Yale University

Thesis Committee: Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (Advisor), Michael Gibilisco, Pawel Janas, Tracy Dennison
Job Market Paper: "Foreign Investment and the Long Road to Development: Knowledge Diffusion in Early Twentieth-Century China"
Email: [email protected]

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Jeffrey Zeidel (PhD '23, Social Sciences)
Postdoctoral Associate, Center for Behavioral Institutional Design, NYU Abu Dhabi

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