Italian economist
Barbara Sianesi is an Italian economist currently a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London. 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. Sianesi is the 94th most cited woman in economics according to the IDEAS.
Research.
Sianesi's research focuses on unemployment, inequality, econometrics, education economics and experimental economics. Her five most quoted papers have been quoted over 5,796 times according to Google Scholar. Her research has been quoted by the Associated Press. Her dissertation was titled "Essays on the Evaluation of Social Programmes and Educational Qualifications".
Her research has been published in "The Review of Economics and Statistics", the "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society", the "Journal of Economic Surveys", and "Fiscal Studies".
Her contribution to the literature includes code on ways to improve propensity score matching.
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