completed

Sistema de Admisión Escolar (SAE) — Chile

Chile's national school assignment system processing 2 million applications annually. Originally developed at ConsiliumBots, spun off to TetherEducation.

Key outcomes

National-scale centralized school assignment
Improved transparency and equity
Led to TetherEducation spin-off

Team

Christopher Neilson — Lead

Research from this project

Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice Felipe Arteaga, Adam J. Kapor, Christopher A. Neilson & Seth D. Zimmerman · The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(3) · 2022 Making Algorithmic Transparency Meaningful: Evidence from Chile's National School Admissions Platform Christopher A. Neilson, Exequiel Medina & Leonardo Ortiz Mesías · ConsiliumBots Working Paper Series · Issue 05 · 2026 Search and Biased Beliefs in Education Markets Patrick Agte, Claudia Allende, Adam Kapor, Christopher A. Neilson & Nano Ochoa · Econometrica (revise & resubmit) · NBER Working Paper 32670 · 2024

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