Professor · Economics & Global Affairs · Yale

Christopher A. Neilson

I am an applied microeconomist at Yale University. My research focuses on the study of public policies and regulation in education markets.

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Featured research

Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice

Quarterly Journal of Economics · collecting cites

Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Assignment Mechanisms

American Economic Review · collecting cites

Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms

Journal of Political Economy · collecting cites

Targeted Vouchers, Competition Among Schools and the Academic Achievement of Poor Students

Econometrica · Cond. accepted · about to celebrate

Approximating The Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice

The Review of Economic Studies · 2nd R&R · submitted

O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries

Quarterly Journal of Economics

The Equilibrium Effects of Asymmetric Information: Evidence from Consumer Credit Markets

Journal of Finance · 2nd R&R · working on it

Are Some Degrees Worth More Than Others? Evidence from College Admission Cutoffs in Chile

NBER Working Paper No. 19241

Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement

American Economic Review

Elite Universities and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human and Social Capital

American Economic Review · Cond. accepted · about to celebrate

College Application Mistakes and the Design of Information Policies at Scale

Journal of Political Economy · 2nd R&R · submitted

Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets

Econometrica · 2nd R&R · submitted

Parents’ Earnings and the Returns to Universal Pre-Kindergarten

Econometrica · 2nd R&R · working on it
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Field Atlas

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.

Aerial cyanotype map of Santiago de Chile, Mapocho river running northwest to southeast across the city
Santiago 33.45°S · 70.65°W
Aerial cyanotype map of Santo Domingo with the Caribbean coastline and the colonial-era urban grid
Santo Domingo 18.47°N · 69.89°W

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