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Technology and research for equitable access to education.

ConsiliumBots builds market-design systems, research tools, and AI agents used by governments and schools across Latin America and the U.S. We work with leading economists at Yale, Universidad de los Andes, and partner institutions.

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Active Projects

What we're working on right now.

The projects below are live. Some are hiring; for the rest, you can still tell us you're interested.

🇩🇴Dominican Republic
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Smart Pruebas Nacionales

Modernizing the Dominican Republic's national assessment system with agentic data tools and embedded RCTs.

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🇨🇱Chile
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Mi Abogado AI

Data pipelines and AI tooling for Chile's legal defense program for children in state care.

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🇺🇸🇨🇱🇨🇴🇩🇴Multi-country
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Smart School Choice and Empirical Market Design

Frontier research and live policy systems for how families choose schools.

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🇺🇸🇨🇴U.S. · Colombia
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Decidiendo un Futuro Mejor — Dynamic Complementarities of Information Provision and Human Capital Investment

Admissions design, returns to selective institutions, and intergenerational mobility.

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🇨🇱Chile
Active · not hiring

CienPies

AI-coordinated walking routes to school, built from real family demand.

🇨🇱🇨🇴🇩🇴Chile · Colombia · Dominican Republic
Active · not hiring

LUCI — Mapping Childcare Deserts

Block-by-block maps of childcare supply across Latin American cities.

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Open Roles

Pre-doctoral fellowships and paid internships.

Each role has its own page with project details, the team you'll work with, and the application.

Who You Will Work With

A team of leading economists working at the frontier of market design.

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Christopher A. Neilson

Yale University

Professor of Economics and Global Affairs at Yale University, with appointments at the Department of Economics, the Jackson School, and NBER. His research combines structural industrial organization, market design, and field experiments to study how families choose schools, how information frictions shape educational investment, and how governments design admissions and financial aid systems. Co-founder of ConsiliumBots, partnering with governments in Latin America, Africa, and the United States on centralized…

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Seth Zimmerman

Yale School of Management

Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management working at the intersection of labor economics, public finance, and the economics of education. His research uses large-scale administrative data and quasi-experimental designs to study how access to selective higher education shapes upward mobility, the formation of elite networks, and the distribution of top incomes. Frequent collaborator with governments on the design of college admissions and financial aid systems and an NBER faculty research fellow.

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Andrés Barrios Fernández

Universidad de los Andes, Chile

Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics, Universidad de los Andes, and Director of its Human Development Lab. PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics, former MIT postdoctoral fellow, and senior researcher at VATT. Works on labor and public economics with a focus on the economics of education — peer and neighborhood effects, access to higher education, and the long-run consequences of school and college choice, using rich administrative data and natural experiments.

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Sebastián Otero

Columbia University

Assistant Professor of Economics at Columbia University, NBER Faculty Research Fellow, and IZA Research Affiliate. His research combines structural models and rich administrative data to study competition in education markets, the design of centralized admissions and financial aid systems, and equilibrium responses of schools and firms to public policy. PhD from Stanford and former postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley, with active projects in Chile, Brazil, and the Dominican Republic.

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Carolina Concha-Arriagada

Teachers College, Columbia University

Assistant Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and member of the Committee on the Economics of Education. PhD in Economics from Georgetown University and former postdoctoral fellow at the Development Innovation Lab at the University of Chicago. Works on applied microeconomics, economics of education, and political economy — studying college admission policies, school choice, and field experiments evaluating government programs across Chile, Perú, and the Dominican Republic.

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Research Track Record

Work connected to top economics research.

The research agenda combines applied microeconomics, market design, development economics, labor economics, and industrial organization, with a focus on real education systems and policy implementation.

QJE
Quarterly Journal of Economics
AER
American Economic Review
JPE
Journal of Political Economy
ECMA
Econometrica / JPE / ReStud pipeline