Barbara Sianesi

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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.

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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

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References

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  2. ↑ "Barbara Sianesi | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  3. ↑ "Top Female Economists Rankings | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  4. ↑ "Barbara Sianesi | IDEAS/RePEc". ideas.repec.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  5. ↑ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  6. ↑ "Companies try 'auditions' for new workers". The Citizens' Voice. Associated Press. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  7. ↑ "Essays on the evaluation of social programmes and educational qualifications - IFAU". www.ifau.se. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  8. ↑ Sianesi, Barbara Iole Marina (2002). Essays on the evaluation of social programmes and educational qualifications (Ph.D. thesis). University College London (University of London).
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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
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