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
editSianesi'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
edit- 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).
References
edit- ^ "Barbara Sianesi -". www.ifs.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ "Barbara Sianesi | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ "Top Female Economists Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ "Barbara Sianesi | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ "Companies try 'auditions' for new workers". The Citizens' Voice. Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ "Essays on the evaluation of social programmes and educational qualifications - IFAU". www.ifau.se. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
- ^ Sianesi, Barbara Iole Marina (2002). Essays on the evaluation of social programmes and educational qualifications (Ph.D. thesis). University College London (University of London).
- ^ 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. doi:10.1162/003465304323023723. ISSN 0034-6535. S2CID 16478263.
- ^ 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). 168 (3): 473–512. doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00360.x. ISSN 1467-985X. S2CID 54903895.
- ^ Sianesi, Barbara; Reenen, John Van (2003). "The Returns to Education: Macroeconomics". Journal of Economic Surveys. 17 (2): 157–200. doi:10.1111/1467-6419.00192. ISSN 1467-6419. S2CID 15634729.
- ^ 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. doi:10.1111/j.1475-5890.1999.tb00001.x. ISSN 1475-5890.
- ^ Leuven, Edwin; Sianesi, Barbara (2018-02-01), PSMATCH2: Stata module to perform full Mahalanobis and propensity score matching, common support graphing, and covariate imbalance testing, Boston College Department of Economics, retrieved 2020-04-02