Fernando, who goes by Nano, completed his PhD in Economics at NYU in
- He’s a 2026 JM cohort placement at Johns Hopkins University —
starting as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2027 — with a
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale’s Cowles Foundation and the Center
for Algorithms, Data Science and Markets in the interim. His research
is in industrial organization and market design applied to real-estate
and education markets; his job market paper, “Targeting and Price
Pass-Through in Housing Voucher Design,” studies the equilibrium
effects of homeownership-voucher targeting through Santiago’s DS1
program. Christopher and he have collaborated on several Chilean
school-choice and college-admissions projects.
