Barbara Sianesi

Barbara Sianesi is an Italian economist currently a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.^[1] She obtained her PhD from University College London and a BA in economics from Bocconi University.

She is a fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics.^[2] Sianesi is the 94th most cited woman in economics according to the IDEAS.^[3]

Research

Sianesi's research focuses on unemployment, inequality, econometrics, education economics and experimental economics.^[4] Her five most quoted papers have been quoted over 5,796 times according to Google Scholar.^[5] Her research has been quoted by the Associated Press.^[6] Her dissertation was titled "Essays on the Evaluation of Social Programmes and Educational Qualifications".^[7][8]

Her research has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics,^[9] the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,^[10] the Journal of Economic Surveys,^[11] and Fiscal Studies.^[12]

Her contribution to the literature includes code on ways to improve propensity score matching.^[13]

Selected publications

• Blundell, Richard; Dearden, Lorraine; Meghir, Costas; Sianesi, Barbara (1999). "Human Capital Investment: The Returns from Education and Training to the Individual, the Firm and the Economy". Fiscal Studies. 20 (1): 1–23.
• Sianesi, Barbara (2004-02-01). "An Evaluation of the Swedish System of Active Labor Market Programs in the 1990s". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 86 (1): 133–155.
• Sianesi, Barbara; Reenen, John Van (2003). "The Returns to Education: Macroeconomics". Journal of Economic Surveys. 17 (2): 157–200.
• Blundell, Richard; Dearden, Lorraine; Sianesi, Barbara (2005). "Evaluating the effect of education on earnings: models, methods and results from the National Child Development Survey". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society).