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 report-cards-Haiti project and on the equilibrium-effects-of-informed-school-choice work.
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
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Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice
The Quarterly Journal of Economics (March 2022) · 2022 · 119 cites
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