Claudia Allende Santa Cruz

EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business 2021 - 2021

University of Chicago Saieh Family Fellow in Economics, Becker Friedman Institute 2020 - 2021

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Economics and Education 2014 - 2020 Dissertation: Essays on the Industrial Organization of Education Markets Advisors: K. Ho, C. Neilson, A. Kapor, P. Bergman, M. Urquiola

Princeton University Trailing Student, Economics Department 2018 - 2020 Visiting Ph.D. Student, Industrial Relations Section 2016 - 2017

Pontificia Universidad Cat´olicade Chile M.A. in Economics 2010 - 2012 B.A. in Business and Economics 2006 - 2010

RESEARCH Primary: Industrial Organization, Economics of Education INTERESTS Secondary: Labor Economics, Development Economics

RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS “Competition under Social Interactions and the Design of Education Policies” (Job Market Paper) “Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Information Interventions” with F. Gallego and C. Neilson R&R, Review of Economic Studies “Information Frictions and School Choice: Evidence from a Quality Disclosure Policy”

WORKIN PROGRESS “Search Costs, Biased Beliefs And School Choice Under Endogenous Consideration Sets” with P. Agte, A. Kapor, and C. Neilson

“The Dynamic Complementarities in Human Capital” with M. Bennett

“Identifying The Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice” with F. Gallego and C. Neilson

“Price Transparency in Pharmaceutical Markets” with Z. Brown

“Pension Markets Under a Mix of Public and Private Providers” with G. Illanes AWARDS AND ReStud Tour 2020 HONORS Best Rising Star Paper Prize, International Industrial Organization Conference 2020 Burke Scholarship Award - Columbia University 2018 - 2019 Education Policy Dissertation Research Fellowship - Columbia University 2018 Academic Excellece Award, M.A. in Economics, PUC-Ch 2012 Academic Excellence Scholarship, PUC-Ch (highest GPA, Business and Econ) 2010 Academic Excellence Scholarship, PUC-Ch (top entering student, Business and Econ) 2006 Highest National Score, Mathematics, University Entrance Exam (PSU) 2005

GRANTS Becker Friedman Institute Grant for the Study of the Economic Effects of Coronavirus 2020 Overdeck Education Research Innovation Fund 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant for Biased Beliefs and Search in Education 2019 Markets. Main PIs: A. Kapor, C. Neilson Center for Development Economics and Policy (Student Grant) - Columbia University 2019 Overdeck Education Research Innovation Fund 2018 Digitization Small Grant - NBER 2018 Research Award: Data Science - Microsoft Research 2018 PPE Innitiative Pilot Grant - J-PAL 2018 Fieldwork Pilot Funds - IR Section, Princeton University 2017

TEACHING Columbia University, Teaching Assistant, New York, NY EXPERIENCE Modern Econometrics for Business - Prof. Jonah Rockoff (MBA) 2019 Economics and Education - Prof. Henry Levin (Master level) 2015

Pontificia Universidad Catolica,´ Santiago, Chile Instructor: Principles of Economics (x3) 2013 - 2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant: Macro Theory, Micro Theory 2010 - 2011 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Advanced Micro I (x3), Advanced 2008 - 2011 Micro II (x2), Advanced Macro I, Trade, Industrial Organization

CONFERENCESAND UC Berkeley, Brown University, Univeristy of Chicago (Econ), Univeristy of Chica- 2020 PRESENTATIONS go (Booth), Dartmouth College, Duke University, ITAM, Northwestern University (PASTAND (Kellogg), NYU, Stanford GSB, University College London, UCLA, Yale Univer- ∗ SCHEDULED) sity (Econ), Yale University (SOM), AEA/ASSA Meetings , Econometric Society World Congress, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE)

Columbia University (Industrial Organization Colloquium), Harvard University 2019 (Workshop on Private Provision of Public Education), Internation Industrial Orga- nization Conference (IIOC), Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (UEA), NBER Summer Institute∗ (Industrial Organization), Princeton University (IO Lunch, Education Research Seminar, Labor Lunch, joint IO and Labor Seminar), Universidad de Chile (Departamento de Ingenier´ıa Industrial), Warwick Econo- mics PhD Conference 2019

APPAM Fall Research Conference (Panel), Columbia University (Applied Micro, 2018 IO, Applied Micro Theory, Development Lunch), (Young Economists Symposium), NBER Summer Institute∗ (Economics of Education), Princeton University (IO Lunch, Education Research Seminar), Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale∗ (Inagural Conference) Columbia University (IO Colloquium, Economics and Education Seminar), JPAL- 2017 LAC: Research Opportunities for the Human Development Conference, Princeton University (Education Research Seminar)

Columbia University, Economics and Education Seminar, Northwestern Univer- 2016 sity, Empirics and Methods in Economics Conference, Princeton University (Econ- Con Economics Students Conference, Education Research Seminar)

Columbia University, (Economics and Education Seminar), Harvard University 2015 or (20th Annual Student Research Conference, GSE), XI Antitrust Workshop (Madrid, earlier Spain), Pontificia Universidad Catolica´ de Chile (Applied Micro Seminar), Annual Meeting of the Chilean Economic Society (SECHI)

(∗Indicates presentation by coauthor in a conference we both attended)

PROFESSIONAL Referee for Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of Economic ACTIVITIES Geography.

OTHER Antitrust Court. Economic Advisor (Santiago, Chile) 2011 - 2013 PROFESSIONAL Ministry of Education. Advisor to the Minister (Santiago, Chile) 2013 - 2014 EXPERIENCE OTHER Nationality: Chilean