Facts and figures about UK taxes, benefits and public spending.
Income distribution, poverty and inequality.
Analysing government fiscal forecasts and tax and spending.
Analysis of the fiscal choices an independent Scotland would face.
Case studies that give a flavour of the areas where IFS research has an impact on society.
Reforming the tax system for the 21st century.
A peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing articles by academics and practitioners.
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Barbara is a senior research economist in the education, employment and evaluation research sector. She joined IFS as a PhD scholar in 1998. Her current research focuses on evaluation methods, applied in particular to labour market programmes and policies as well as to educational investments.
All available publications
Barbara Sianesi, June 2010,
An introduction to matching methods for causal inference and their implementation in Stata,
Presentations
Barbara Sianesi, March 2010,
Non-participation in the Employment Retention and Advancement study: implications for the experimental first-year impact estimates,
External publications
, Department for Work and Pensions
Barbara Sianesi, November 2009,
Measuring the impact of education on individual earnings: an economist's perspective and overview,
Presentations
Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Jonathan Shaw and Barbara Sianesi, January 2009,
Ethnic parity in labour market outcomes for benefit claimants,
IFS Working Papers
, W09/04
Barbara Sianesi, June 2008,
Differential effects of active labour market programs for the unemployed,
Labour Economics,
Vol. 15, No. 3, pp 370-499,
Elsevier,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Barbara Sianesi, December 2001,
Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s,
IFS Working Papers
, W01/25
Claire Crawford, Lorraine Dearden, Alice Mesnard, Jonathan Shaw, Barbara Sianesi and Peter Urwin, May 2008,
Ethnic parity in Jobcentre Plus programmes and mainstream services: main report,
Mimeos
Alissa Goodman and Barbara Sianesi, May 2007,
Non-participation in the Employment Retention and Advancement Study: A quantitative descriptive analysis,
External publications
, Department for Work and Pensions
Erich Battistin and Barbara Sianesi, April 2006,
Misreported schooling and returns to education: evidence from the UK,
cemmap Working Papers
, CWP07/06
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