kirby nielsen Updated: February 19, 2021
Contact California Institute of Technology www.kirbyknielsen.com Information 1200 E. California Blvd. Phone: +1(626) 395-4094 MC 228-77 [email protected] Pasadena, CA 91125 Citizenship: USA
Employment Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology July 2020— Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University October 2018–July 2020 Department of Economics, invited by Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth
Education Ph.D. in Economics, The Ohio State University December 2018 Chair: Paul J. Healy Co-Chair: John H. Kagel M.A. in Economics, The Ohio State University June 2014 B.A. in Economics, Rice University June 2013 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Minor in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Fields Experimental Economics, Decision Theory, Microeconomic Theory
Publications “Preferences for the Resolution of Uncertainty and the Timing of Information" Journal of Economic Theory, Volume 189, September 2020
“Timing of Communication” with Puja Bhattacharya and Arjun Sengupta The Economic Journal, Volume 130, Issue 630, August 2020, Pages 1623–1649
“Teams Promise But Do Not Deliver” with Puja Bhattacharya, John Kagel, and Arjun Sengupta Games and Economic Behavior, Volume 117, September 2019, Pages 420–432
“Dynamic Risk Preferences Under Realized and Paper Outcomes” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 161, May 2019, Pages 68–78
Working “When Choices are Mistakes” with John Rehbeck Papers Revision Requested, American Economic Review
“Stable Randomization” with Marina Agranov and Paul J. Healy
“A Systematic Test of the Independence Axiom Near Certainty” with Ritesh Jain
1 of 3 External National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research with 2021–2024 Grants & John Rehbeck ($247,797) Awards IFREE Small Grant, with Paul J. Healy and John Rehbeck ($9,600) 2020 Russell Sage Foundation Small Grant in Behavioral Economics, 2020 with Ian Chadd and Siri Isaksson ($8,500) AER: Insights Excellence in Refereeing Award 2019
Internal JMCB Grant for Graduate Student Research ($2,000) 2018 Grants & OSU Decision Science Collaborative Top-Rated Abstract ($500) 2018 Awards OSU Decision Science Collaborative Research Grant ($2,813) 2017 L. Edwin Smart Graduate Associate Teaching Award, OSU 2017 6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences 2017 JMCB Grant for Graduate Student Research ($1,050) 2016 OSU Decision Science Collaborative Research Grant ($3,000) 2016 Departmental Citation for Excellence in Teaching, OSU 2016 OSU Decision Science Collaborative Research Grant ($3,000) 2015 University Fellowship, The Ohio State University 2013-2014 Century Scholars Program, Rice University 2009-2011 Trustee Distinguished Scholarship, Rice University 2009-2013
Invited 2021 (some scheduled): Indiana University, Princeton, Florida State University, Seminars Brown University, University of Oxford, Queen’s University
2020: Cornell, University of Pittsburgh, University of Chicago and Berkeley Behavioral Economics Workshop, Georgetown, University of Connecticut, Caltech, Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, Simon Fraser University, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Essex, UC Santa Barbara, University of Southern California
2019: Caltech, Graduate Behavioral Economics Class at Wharton, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of Arkansas, Harvard Business School
2018: UCSD Rady School of Management, Graduate Experimental Economics Class at New York University, Stanford University
Conference 2020: Economic Science Association Junior Faculty Webinar; Workshop in Presentations Experiments, Revealed Preferences, and Decisions; Symposium on the Analysis of Revealed Preference; Australia New Zealand Workshop in Experimental Economics; Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting
2019: Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting; Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory; Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory; Early Career Behavioral Economics Conference; Economic Science Association North American Meeting; Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting
2018: Spring School in Behavioral Economics; Midwest Economic Association
2 of 3 Annual Meeting; Sixth Annual Bounded Rationality in Choice Conference; Foundations of Utility and Risk; Economic Science Association World Meeting; Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics; Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting
2017: Midwest Economic Association Annual Meeting; Decision Science Collaborative Spring Research Forum; Economic Science Association World Meeting; Summer School of Econometric Society; 6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences; Economic Science Association North American Meeting
2016: Economic Science Association North American Meeting
Conference Co-Organizer, SITE conference on Experimental Economics, Stanford 2019 Organization
Workshop CSWEP CeMENT Workshop 2021 Participation Spring School in Behavioral Economics, Rady School of Management 2018 6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences 2017 Summer School of The Econometric Society 2017 BIG Ideas Doctoral Workshop, Harvard Business School 2017
Professional Graduate Research Assistant for Professor John Kagel 2016-present Experience The Ohio State University
Research Assistant for Prof. Dr. Ulrich Witt Summer 2011 Max Planck Institute of Economics: Evolutionary Economics, Jena, Germany
Refereeing American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; American Economic Review; American Economic Review: Insights; Econometrica; Economic Theory; European Economic Review; Experimental Economics; Games; Games and Economic Behavior; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Journal of the European Economic Association; Management Science; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; Quarterly Journal of Economics; Review of Economic Studies
Teaching Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech Winter 2020 Experience Ec 109 Frontiers in Behavioral Economics (undergraduate) SS 212b Experimental Economics (graduate)
Department of Economics, The Ohio State University Spring 2016 & 2017 ECON 4700 Government and Business (undergraduate)
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