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
Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Barbara Sianesi, November 2003,
Evaluating the impact of education on earnings in the UK: Models, methods and results from the NCDS,
IFS Working Papers
, W03/20
Now published:
Richard Blundell, Lorraine Dearden and Barbara Sianesi, July 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,
Vol. 168, No. 3, pp. 473-512, Journal Articles
, Royal Statistical Society
Barbara Sianesi, January 2003,
Swedish Active Labour Market Programmes in the 1990s: Overall Effectiveness and Differential Performance,
Swedish Economic Policy Review,
Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 133-169, 2001,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Barbara Sianesi, February 2002,
Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/03
Barbara Sianesi and John Van Reenan, January 2003,
The Returns to Education: Macroeconomics,
Journal of Economic Surveys,
Vol. 17, No. 2, 157-200, 2003.,
Journal Articles
Previous versions:
Barbara Sianesi, March 2002,
The returns to education: a review of the empirical macro-economic literature,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/05
Barbara Sianesi, March 2002,
The returns to education: a review of the empirical macro-economic literature,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/05
Now published:
Barbara Sianesi and John Van Reenan, January 2003,
The Returns to Education: Macroeconomics,
Journal of Economic Surveys,
Vol. 17, No. 2, 157-200, 2003., Journal Articles
Barbara Sianesi, February 2002,
Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/03
Now published:
Barbara Sianesi, January 2003,
Swedish Active Labour Market Programmes in the 1990s: Overall Effectiveness and Differential Performance,
Swedish Economic Policy Review,
Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 133-169, 2001, Journal Articles
Barbara Sianesi, January 2002,
An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s,
IFS Working Papers
, W02/01
Now published:
Barbara Sianesi, November 2004,
An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s,
Review of Economics and Statistics,
Vol. 86, No. 1, pp. 133-155, Journal Articles
, MIT Press
Barbara Sianesi, December 2001,
Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s,
IFS Working Papers
, W01/25
Now published:
Barbara Sianesi, June 2008,
Differential effects of active labour market programs for the unemployed,
Labour Economics,
Vol. 15, No. 3, pp 370-499, Journal Articles
, Elsevier
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