Barbara Sianesi is an Italian economist currently a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.
[2] Sianesi is the 94th most cited woman in economics according to the IDEAS.
[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.