Barbara Sianesi

Sianesi's research focuses on unemployment, inequality, econometrics, education economics and experimental economics.{{Cite web|url=https://ideas.repec.org/e/psi28.html|title=Barbara Sianesi {{!}} IDEAS/RePEc|website=ideas.repec.org|access-date=2020-04-02}} Her five most quoted papers have been quoted over 5,796 times according to Google Scholar.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=Barbara+Sianesi&btnG=|title=Google Scholar|website=scholar.google.co.uk|access-date=2020-04-02}} Her research has been quoted by the Associated Press.{{Cite web|url=https://www.citizensvoice.com/news/companies-try-auditions-for-new-workers-1.1876797|title=Companies try 'auditions' for new workers|agency=Associated Press|work=The Citizens' Voice|access-date=2020-04-02}} Her dissertation was titled "Essays on the Evaluation of Social Programmes and Educational Qualifications".{{Cite web|url=https://www.ifau.se/en/Research/Publications/Dissertation-series/2002/Essays-on-the-evaluation-of-social-programmes-and-educational-qualifications/|title=Essays on the evaluation of social programmes and educational qualifications - IFAU|website=www.ifau.se|access-date=2020-04-02}}{{Cite thesis|title=Essays on the evaluation of social programmes and educational qualifications|url=https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399126|publisher=University College London (University of London)|date=2002|degree=Ph.D.|first=Barbara Iole Marina|last=Sianesi}}

Her research has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics,{{Cite journal|last=Sianesi|first=Barbara|date=2004-02-01|title=An Evaluation of the Swedish System of Active Labor Market Programs in the 1990s|url=https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/10.1162/003465304323023723|journal=The Review of Economics and Statistics|volume=86|issue=1|pages=133–155|doi=10.1162/003465304323023723|s2cid=16478263|issn=0034-6535|url-access=subscription}} the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society,{{Cite journal|last1=Blundell|first1=Richard|last2=Dearden|first2=Lorraine|last3=Sianesi|first3=Barbara|date=2005|title=Evaluating the effect of education on earnings: models, methods and results from the National Child Development Survey|journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society)|volume=168|issue=3|pages=473–512|doi=10.1111/j.1467-985X.2004.00360.x|s2cid=54903895 |issn=1467-985X|doi-access=free}} the Journal of Economic Surveys,{{Cite journal|last1=Sianesi|first1=Barbara|last2=Reenen|first2=John Van|date=2003|title=The Returns to Education: Macroeconomics|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-6419.00192|journal=Journal of Economic Surveys|volume=17|issue=2|pages=157–200|doi=10.1111/1467-6419.00192|s2cid=15634729|issn=1467-6419|url-access=subscription}} and Fiscal Studies.{{Cite journal|last1=Blundell|first1=Richard|last2=Dearden|first2=Lorraine|last3=Meghir|first3=Costas|last4=Sianesi|first4=Barbara|date=1999|title=Human Capital Investment: The Returns from Education and Training to the Individual, the Firm and the Economy|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1475-5890.1999.tb00001.x|journal=Fiscal Studies|volume=20|issue=1|pages=1–23|doi=10.1111/j.1475-5890.1999.tb00001.x|issn=1475-5890|url-access=subscription}}

Her contribution to the literature includes code on ways to improve propensity score matching.{{Citation|last1=Leuven|first1=Edwin|title=PSMATCH2: Stata module to perform full Mahalanobis and propensity score matching, common support graphing, and covariate imbalance testing|date=2018-02-01|url=https://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s432001.html|publisher=Boston College Department of Economics|access-date=2020-04-02|last2=Sianesi|first2=Barbara}}

• 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).

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