About
Claudia is an Assistant Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her research focuses on the industrial organization of education markets, particularly in developing countries, with a long-running interest in school choice and competition in Latin America. She completed her BA and MA at PUC-Chile (2010, 2011), earned her PhD at Columbia in 2020 under Kate Ho, and was a Princeton visiting and trailing student under Christopher’s advising before her postdoc at Chicago Booth’s Becker Friedman Institute. She and Christopher continue to collaborate on questions of information, choice, and equilibrium effects in centralized education markets.
Background
- Industrial Organization
- Economics of Education
- Labor Economics
- Development Economics
Education
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PhD, Economics and Education
· Columbia University (2020) · advisor: Kate Ho
Competition under Social Interactions and the Design of Education Policies - MA, Economics · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2011)
- BA, Economics · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2010)
Career
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2021–present)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago (2020–2021)
- Trailing Student, Princeton University (2018–2020)
- Visiting PhD Student, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University (2016–2017)
Career data last refreshed 2026-05-03 from the PhD-placements project.
Joint work with Christopher
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Approximating The Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice
The Review of Economic Studies (R&R) · 2019 · 123 cites
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Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets
Econometrica (R&R) · 2024
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Digital School Profiles, Demand, and Equity in Centralized School Choice
Work in progress · 2025
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Spillover and Congestion Effects of Large-Scale Information Interventions
Work in progress · 2025
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