Christopher A. Neilson
I am an applied microeconomist at Yale University. My research focuses on public policies and regulation in education markets, and on translating that work into deployed tools through TetherEducation and ConsiliumBots.
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.
