Christopher A. Neilson
I am an economist and entrepreneur. My research at Yale University focuses on public policies and regulation in education markets, and I founded ConsiliumBots and TetherEducation to translate that work into deployed tools.
Featured research
Featured Projects
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Startup
TetherEducation
Startup building AI-enabled, measurement-ready guidance products for school choice, admissions, matching, and enrollment systems
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Non-profit
ConsiliumBots
Non-profit designing, building, and evaluating digital guidance tools with governments and researchers across education, housing, and benefits
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Field implementation
Information and Dynamic Human Capital Accumulation
Human capital investments in the Dominican Republic
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Policy design
Competitive Incentives in Education Markets
School choice reform and competition in Chile
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Pilot evaluation
Heterogenous Beliefs, School Choice Systems and Mechanism Design Solutions
Mechanism design in practice in New Haven, CT
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Completed
A Decade of Centralized School Choice in Chile
Comprehensive evaluation of SAE system evolution, outcomes, and governance
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Active
Proyecto 3E: Information and Choice in Chilean Higher Education
Linked admin records on applications, enrollment, loans and earnings across fifteen cohorts of Chilean college applicants
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Policy explainer
Subvención Escolar Preferencial (SEP)
Plain-language explainer for Chile's targeted-voucher policy and the evidence on how it changed school competition
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National rollout
Empowering Search and Improving Investment in Human Capital
AI-assisted guidance for college major choice in Colombia
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Active
Latin American Urban Childcare Initiative (LUCI)
Multi-city research and transparency initiative mapping access to early childhood education across Latin America
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Impact evaluation
Dynamic Complementarities of Information Provision and Human Capital
Layering behavioral nudges and grants in Peru
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Active
Improving Equity in Danish School Choice
Digital guidance tools for social inclusion in Denmark centralized high school admissions
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Active
Queuing for Segregation: Childcare Access in Copenhagen
Analysis of queue-based allocation system and strategic behavior in childcare access
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Active
Digital School Profiles in Chile's SAE
Digital profiles intervention in Chile national school-choice system
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Where the work happens
Two decades of school-choice, college-admissions and human-capital fieldwork — anchored in Santiago de Chile and Santo Domingo, with collaborations across the Americas.
