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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Upcoming Webinar: GLP-1–Induced Weight Loss and the Female Obesity Penalty When? October 5, 2026 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM UTC (11:30am EDT) Who? Rebecca Diamond. Organizer: Economics of Risky Health Behaviors Where? Online via Zoom, Register here www.healtheconomics.org/event/glp-1-...

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

please re-post for visibility if you can!

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Recommendations of the week. Lars: grilled lemongrass chicken with clementine cake and chocolate ganache. Alex: musician Logan Hone. Me: the AEA Data Editor's guidance page, and the getcensus command for pulling ACS data into Stata.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

*New* Episode of #TheHiddenCurriculum. We talk with Lars Vilhuber @lars.vilhuber.com - AEA Data Editor - on how to get your replication ready and other transparency practices. Links below! @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social the-hidden-curriculum.com

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Uncommon Econ @uncommonecon.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Looking to engage undergraduates in principles of microeconomics through real-world case studies? View our free videos curriculum: uncommonecon.com. Join our final Faculty cohort to earn $2,000 over two semesters in our classroom research study. Priority deadline: 10/1. #EconSky #EconX #Econ

Uncommon Econ Seasons 1 Episode 1 research brief on supply and demand within mental health care

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yeah idk but have you tried consensus or leapspace? They have been working great with none of those issues.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Our speaker, Scott Cunningham, Ben H. Williams Professor of Economics at Baylor University and Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, will discuss findings from thousands of AI-agent estimations using a US minimum-wage panel dataset.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

From downloading datasets and developing research designs to selecting econometric estimators, interpreting results, and producing publication-ready manuscripts. The research raises an important question for the future of AI-assisted research: Is checking the code enough to verify the results?

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How reliable are AI agents when they conduct empirical research autonomously? 📅 September 14 | 3:30–4:30 PM UTC 🔗 Register here: www.healtheconomics.org/event/evalua...

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Thinking about going on the job market this year? A lot has been written on it, so in this article, I've posted my recommended links of that literature and a high end view of what has changed and what hasn't changed: sebastiantellotrillo.com/notes/pullin...

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Pulling the curtain behind the Job Market Article for CSWEP (Writer’s cut)

This article was written for the CSWEP Newsletter, which you can find here. Because of space reasons, we couldn’t put all the text, so here is a longer version with more details.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Does anyone have the feeling when you are leaning towards rejecting a paper, that this karma will come back to you?

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

New Episode of #TheHiddenCurriculum posted! This week we talk with Patrick Button about the do's and don't of diversity statements and related materials.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hi Friends! We finally have a podcast website! the-hidden-curriculum.com If you ever have wonder if we've covered a topic, Alex Hollingsworth has created a website that will have all the transcripts, and an easy way to search the topics and who we've talked to. Hope y'all enjoy!

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The Hidden Curriculum

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When firms aren’t allowed to hire low-skill foreign workers, they don’t hire more Americans. They produce less, invest less, and shrink, with the sharpest effects in rural areas, say researchers at @jhu.edu and @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/imm...

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Winning the visa lottery

Evidence from a US government lottery shows that restricting foreign low-skill workers shrinks businesses without creating jobs for Americans.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here is the "video" version of the podcast where you can see our desktops to set it up www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcnV...

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E55 - What is Git, GitHub, and should I use it? with Andrea Moro

YouTube video by The Hidden Curriculum

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New episode of #TheHiddenCurriculum is out (and we'll be posting new ones the next few weeks, so tune in!) This week we talk with @andreamoro.bsky.social on how to use all stuff related to git and github! We even walk you through how to do it if you want (video link below)!

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It took my 51 minutes to fold 1.5 load of laundry. I’m so inefficient or is this normal??

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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Now I can show this to my kids when I randomly let one of them choose the car song. These lemmas should satisfy them.

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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Random Priority—a popular no-transfer allocation mechanism—is efficient, fair, & simple to participate in. Is it the only mechanism with these properties? Marek Pycia @econ.uzh.ch and Peter Troyan, UVA Economics, answer this long-standing question in the positive. buff.ly/zlSjmC0

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This fall 2026, I'll be spending my Sabbatical at @brookings.edu with the Center for Economic Security and Opportunity. Excited for my time there and hope to connect with people in the health policy space as well as old friends!

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

New episodes coming soon, make sure we are on your feed if you want to listen to them!

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Allison Orris @aorris.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The #Medicaid work requirement enacted by last year’s Republican reconciliation law was already bad enough. The Trump administration’s new interim final rule makes a bad policy worse...here's a little more on why: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

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Administration’s Last-Minute Restrictions Likely to Worsen Impact of Medicaid Work Requirement

The Trump Administration’s final rule implementing the new Medicaid work requirement makes major, last-minute policy shifts that will likely increase the number of people who are denied or lose health...

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Check out the latest IHEA online seminar! Anyone can come!

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Christoph Kronenberg @ckronenberg.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

#econsky et al. I am happy to announce the #call_for_papers for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop! The workshop is hosted by @peibich.bsky.social at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are @jcmecon.bsky.social & Marco Bertoni. 1/n

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Marcella Alsan @marcellaalsan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Culture and Health handbook chapter - honered to provide a lecture to iHEA - youtu.be/5CLi_XCd2fM slides available here healthinequalitylab.org/research/wor...

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Culture and Health

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Thank you, JEBO for publishing this paper!

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Maybe everyone having their own type of insurance is best for each person. Or maybe not. Maybe having to deal with many insurance plans, different networks, etc for the whole fam could be detrimental to hlthcre access. If you are interested in this question, stay tuned for the sequel to this paper 😉

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Second quibble point: The important nuance, this is NOT about coverage going down. In many cases, More people are insured, but coverage becomes more fragmented. So is that ok? Is more fragmentation in the family ok?👇

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Some quibble points: Our definition of uniformity is pretty basic, calling everyoneon medicaid, uniform. We could have some people on Medicaid managed care v s. traditional Medicaid, and we could further refine our measure of uniformity.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

As you can see from this graph, in the 90s we see a lot of fragmentation of medicaid eligibility for kids, that gets reduced in the 2000s with the introduction of SCHIP.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

When parents gain Medicaid, families move into “all public” coverage. Less patchwork, fewer gaps. Children's eligibility is higher than that of adults, where there have been more expansions for children, it has widened the gap between kids and their parents.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

(2) Expansions to adult/parents do help increase uniformity in families. This is hopefully intuitive, because adult eligibility is usually the binding constraint.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We look at the expansion of Medicaid (across categories and income) to understand if these policies have increased or decreased uniformity in families. We find that (1) Expanding coverage for children does not increase uniformity (and may reduce it). However,

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Why has uniformity declined? Public insurance in the U.S. is designed at the individual level: Children often qualify at higher income thresholds. Adults lag behind. This creates “patchwork” coverage within families.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Using CPS data (1988–2019), we document that the vast majority of families (~77%) in the U.S. already are "under the same umbrella". AND that Family-level insurance uniformity fell by ~10 percentage points over 30 years (for families <400% FPL). Even as overall coverage expanded.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

We define a simple concept: insurance uniformity = everyone in a family has the same type of coverage (e.g., all Medicaid, all private, etc.). These have been relatively stable.

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚨New Paper 🚨 with Dan Grossman and Sarah Hamersma! authors.elsevier.com/c/1mxflc24bE... In policy debates, we often say the U.S. system is “fragmented.” But what does that actually look like for families, and how has that evolved? and how has US policy shifted this?

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

What is the phenomenon called when people who do complicated stuff try to explain things in the most simple terms while people who do really simple stuff, try to use fancy language to elevate the sophistication of what they are doing?

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Jonathan Colmer @jmcolmer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Please Share! The Environmental Inequality Lab is hosting it's second undergraduate research training program in environmental and energy economics this summer & it's open to all (with current U.S. work authorization)! Full-time, funded, in-person, 10-weeks. More details here tinyurl.com/EEE-URTP

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UVA_EEE_URTP_Application_Undergrad.pdf

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Got some good news about a paper (that I'll share later), but just wanted to share that I tracked how long it took to work on this paper. From the first meeting about the project to the conditional acceptance: 1708 days From first meeting to first submission: 691 days

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Brian Heseung Kim @brhkim.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Today, I’m launching DAAF, the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework: an open-source, extensible workflow for Claude Code that allows skilled researchers to rapidly scale their expertise and accelerate data analysis by 5-10x -- *without* sacrificing the transparency... github.com/brhkim/daaf/...

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GitHub - DAAF-Contribution-Community/daaf: DAAF, the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework: An open-source, extensible workflow for Claude Code that allows skilled researchers to rapidly scale their exp...

DAAF, the Data Analyst Augmentation Framework: An open-source, extensible workflow for Claude Code that allows skilled researchers to rapidly scale their expertise and accelerate data analysis by a...

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

What’s your song(s) to listen to after a sh*tty day, not to cheer you up but to sulk in it? Something like Anna Nalick‘s “wreck of the day“

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