The Postdoctoral Scholar will be part of Berkeley’s O’Donnell Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance, housed jointly in the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics. The center’s mission is to support rigorous academic research in various areas of behavioral economics, including all areas of applied microeconomics, financial economics, macro-finance, political economy, public economics, and health economics. We also pursue research in collaboration with researchers in neuroscience, cognitive science, and medicine. Ulrike Malmendier and Stefano Della Vigna, both joint faculty members at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics, co-direct the center. Faculty from the departments of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Economics, the Haas Business School, the School of Public Health, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Information School are affiliated with the initiative. Ulrike Malmendier will be the primary faculty lead. Areas of research interest include, but are not limited to:
-models and empirical evidence of belief formation in macro-finance, especially work on experience effects and memory formation;
-household decision-making: household finance, health choices, consumption
-firm decision-making: corporate finance and in particular managerial biases, including overconfidence, sunk-cost fallacy, and hindsight bias;
-neuroscience foundations of modern models of belief formation and economic/financial decision-making mental health, trauma.
Applicants are expected to pitch their existing research. They may also at their discretion (1) propose possible areas of
collaboration, including concrete project ideas, and (2) contribute to possible projects of collaboration proposed by us.
Qualifications
No more than two years of post-degree research experience.
Scholars with strengths in applied microeconometrics, field experiments, and applied data science (including machine learning and computational methods for working with unstructured data) are particularly encouraged.
Application Requirements
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Curriculum Vitae – Your most recently updated C.V. -
Cover Letter -
Statement of Research -
Statement on Contributions to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging – Statement on your contributions to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in research, teaching, and service, including information about your record of activities to date, and plans for contributing if hired at UC Berkeley. More Information and guidelines.
- 2-6 letters of reference required
