Felipe Arteaga
- Former PhD student (JM 2024)
About
Felipe is an Economist at AWS Central Economics & Science (Amazon). He completed his PhD in Economics at UC Berkeley in 2024 under Ben Handel, with Christopher on his committee alongside Christopher Walters and Nano Barahona; his dissertation, “Essays on Empirical Market Design,” focused on school choice and centralized assignment. Before his PhD he earned a BS and MS in Industrial Engineering from PUC-Chile (2012, 2013) and worked at ConsiliumBots, the Chilean Ministry of Education, and J-PAL — supporting Christopher’s and Francisco Gallego’s education research projects across Chile, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and the US. He and Christopher are coauthors on the smart matching platforms and heterogeneous beliefs paper and on the choice-platform information experiments in Ecuador and Peru.
Background
- Empirical Market Design
- Economics of Education
- School Choice
Education
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PhD, Economics
· University of California, Berkeley (2024) · advisor: Ben Handel
Essays on Empirical Market Design - MS, Industrial Engineering · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2013)
- BS, Industrial Engineering · Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2012)
Career
- Economist, AWS Central Economics & Science, Amazon (2024–present)
- Research and engineering roles, ConsiliumBots, MINEDUC (Chile), J-PAL (pre-PhD)
Career data last refreshed 2026-05-03 from the PhD-placements project.
Joint work with Christopher
- Published
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Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice
The Quarterly Journal of Economics (March 2022) · 2022 · 119 cites
- Working papers / in progress
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Can Information on School Attributes and Placement Probabilities Direct Search and Choice? Evidence from Choice Platforms in Ecuador and Peru
IDB Working Paper Series · 2022
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