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.
Smart Pruebas Nacionales
Modernizing the Dominican Republic's national assessment system with agentic data tools and embedded RCTs.
Open roles
Mi Abogado AI
Data pipelines and AI tooling for Chile's legal defense program for children in state care.
Smart School Choice and Empirical Market Design
Frontier research and live policy systems for how families choose schools.
Open roles
Decidiendo un Futuro Mejor — Dynamic Complementarities of Information Provision and Human Capital Investment
Admissions design, returns to selective institutions, and intergenerational mobility.
CienPies
AI-coordinated walking routes to school, built from real family demand.
LUCI — Mapping Childcare Deserts
Block-by-block maps of childcare supply across Latin American cities.
Open Roles
Join us.
Each role below is self-contained — project context, the team you'll work with, and the application process all on one page.
Where we work
Four cities. One network.
From New Haven to Santiago, our teams sit inside ministries, universities, and research labs. Hover or tap a marker to see what's open there.
Lead the modernization of Pruebas Nacionales and the rollout of agentic data tools for government.
Senior role embedded with Pruebas Nacionales. Lead the new national assessment platform with agentic data tools and embedded RCTs.
Principal investigators
Christopher A. Neilson
Build dashboards, insights, and run RCTs at scale inside the Ministry of Education.
Build dashboards and AI-assisted insights on national education data, and design and run RCTs at scale with government agencies. Comfortable with data pipelines and statistics, or willing to learn.
Principal investigators
Sebastián Otero · Carolina Concha-Arriagada · Christopher A. Neilson
Bring technology and AI into how curriculum is designed and delivered.
Paid 3-month internship for students who care about education and want to bring technology into curriculum design and classroom delivery.
Principal investigators
Sebastián Otero · Carolina Concha-Arriagada
Work on market design systems that shape access to education.
Work with Christopher Neilson on school choice mechanisms, information interventions, and AI agents that improve access to education.
Principal investigators
Christopher A. Neilson
Work on the economics of higher education, mobility, and peer effects.
Pre-doc with Seth Zimmerman (Yale SOM) and Andrés Barrios Fernández (UAndes) using admin data on admissions, peer effects, and mobility.
Principal investigators
Seth Zimmerman · Andrés Barrios Fernández
Build applied ML and decision systems used by governments and schools.
Paid 3-month internship building and evaluating ML models on real public-sector data with senior researchers and engineers.
Bridge storytelling and analytics across education and policy.
Paid 3-month internship combining marketing strategy with data analytics — plan campaigns, instrument funnels, and translate research.
Turn government data into insights using causal inference and AI.
Paid 3-month internship focused on insights: causal inference, AI/LLM tooling, and dashboards on real administrative data.
Build data and AI tools for Mi Abogado — legal defense for children in state care.
Paid 3-month internship building data and AI tools for Mi Abogado, Chile's legal defense program for children and adolescents in state care.
Principal investigators
Christopher A. Neilson