Sebastian Castillo

BSE Summer Forum Public Economics (broadly defined) Save the date: 11-12 June, Barcelona Submit your paper before 28 February events.bse.eu/live/files/594… Organisers: @nina_bobkova @CateMuratori @silviavannutell M. Besfamille, P. Boyer, @LVSalvadori & myself @bse_barcelona #economics

1/ Hi, my name is Isaac Martinez. I am a PhD student in Economics at the LSE, and I wanted to share something personal. On July 6, 2025, I suffered a stroke while I was finishing my PhD. It was completely unexpected and changed my life. #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

JOTA CfP! AI’s Role in Future Tax Systems. Submit your paper. @JOTAJournal @LVSalvadori @evachalioti tarc.exeter.ac.uk/jota/ai-tax-sy…

Did you know many public economics courses in Africa use examples from outside the continent? 🤔 We hosted a workshop with VATT & HAUS, uniting 9 African universities to develop a relevant curriculum. Find out more here: go.unu.edu/6oV3W

Today’s animated Fireside Chat was on UNU-WIDER book Poor Protection. It explores how taxes & social benefits shape crisis response in developing countries Stay tuned for its policy briefs + open access release later this year! go.unu.edu/NGzOM #WIDERDevConf2025

📢PhD students! 📢 Coming up: a brand new public economics PhD course in the autumn 2025! Weekly 2-hour hybrid sessions, and two in-person sessions. Organisers: @HelsinkiGSE, FIT and @uppsalauni Check out the great programme and read more!👇 verotutkimus.fi/en/phd-pe-2025/

📝 Publication Alert! 📊We observe heterogeneity in VAT misreporting across SMEs in Tanzania, focusing on size & declaration @SebaCastilloRa @EzekielSwema @oshizler #VincentLeyaro doi.org/10.1093/cesifo…

My latest publication is already here! Thanks to @Coe_FIT for the constant support :)

The Department of Management Control and Information Systems at FEN UCH is hiring an assistant professor of taxation! This is a very interesting position and environment. Take a look and reach out if you are interested! / concurso-academico.uchile.cl

@mariasauval Felicitaciones!!! :)

✅PhD completed ✅First chapter accepted for publication This was a good week! 😅🎉 Huge thank you to my advisors, informal mentors, peers, family, and friends, for the support in the last 5 years.

Ahoy PhD students, ☀️ Apply now for the PE summer course with an emphasis on tax policy. Professors Emmanual Saez and Joel Slemrod deliver lectures on the course. The participants join in the Transatlantic Public Economics Seminar TAPES. No course fee. verotutkimus.fi/en/pe-phd-cour…

We will share our bottom-up tax gap estimation approach based on joint work with @ZambiaRevenue and @TRATanzania. Watch this space for #taxgap toolkit development with @SebaCastilloRa, Kwabena Adu-Ababio & Mostafa Bahbah! #FairTaxation @UNUWIDER

A PhD Course on Tax and Transfer Systems in Helsinki, 10 - 14 June with top researchers! Read more from out site 👇 and sign up by 15th April. The course is free of charge. verotutkimus.fi/en/pe-phd-cour…

PhD #PublicEcon summer course on Tax and Transfer Systems in connection of Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES) in Helsinki in June! 🤩 Read more and register now for the PhD course! 👇 verotutkimus.fi/en/pe-phd-cour…

Looking forward to being part of this workshop @UNUWIDER #fairtaxation

Are you applying for an Economics Ph.D.? Are your students thinking about it? Consider our growing program @EmoryEconomics! GRE is optional & you can apply for a fee waiver here gs.emory.edu/admissions/fee… Check out our placement economics.emory.edu/graduate/alumn… & join us!

Hello #EconTwitter! Various assignment mechanisms are used by universities to pair students with professors. When learning is subject to student-professor match effects, have you ever thought about the role these mechanisms play in shaping learning outcomes? 🧵1/9

🚀 Tax administrations worldwide are evolving with digital tech, boosting efficiency & insights, while ensuring data privacy and security is key for public trust. Join us for the last session of the #Tax4SDGs2023 Dialogue: shorturl.at/acqwY

We are hiring a postdoc @AaltoBIZ ! Come hang out with me, @tsaarimaa, @PabloWarnes and other urban/regional economists of @HelsinkiGSE: econjobmarket.org/positions/10206

Jukka Pirttilä from the United Nations University- World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU- WIDER) has shared his opening remarks on the partnership between URA and @UNUWIDER ahead of the research findings presentation at the Research Dissemination Workshop happening now at Protea Hotel, Kampala. This workshop is part of the collaboration under the Building up efficient and fair tax systems – lessons based on administrative tax data project, which is part of UNU-WIDER's research and capacity development programme on domestic revenue mobilization (DRM), funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (Norad). #FairTaxation #DRMProgramme