Silvia Helena Barcellos
Credentials: Associate Professor
Email: barcellos@wisc.edu
Address:
305 Observatory Hill Office Building
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
About
Silvia Helena Barcellos is an Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Public Affairs. She is a health economist, and her work aims to understand the interplay between socio-economic status and health across the lifespan, with a focus on the role public policy plays on such relationships. One area of research investigates how education (and different educational policies) affects health, cognition, and SES at older ages, including how individual genetics shape such relationships. A second strand of research studies the effect of health insurance coverage (and different types of coverage) on the risk of catastrophic medical spending, access to care, psychological well-being, and health outcomes.
Professor Barcellos was awarded the 2015 Albert Rees Prize from the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In 2016, she received a Career Development Award (K01) from the National Institute on Aging (NIA). She is currently the PI of an NIA R01 grant on gene-environment interactions in education, cognitive functioning, and dementia risk. Professor Barcellos is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER, Cambridge MA) and an International Research Associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, London UK).
Professor Barcellos earned her PhD and MA in Economics from Princeton University. She is originally from Brazil, and she received a BA and an MA in Economics from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Before coming to Madison, she was an Associate Research Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California and worked for three years as an Associate Economist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, where she was also a faculty member at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. In 2016-2017, she was a visiting scholar at the Department of Economics of the University College London. Professor Barcellos’ work has been published in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Human Resources, American Journal of Health Economics and Health Affairs.
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Education
- PhD, Princeton University, Economics
- MA, Princeton University, Economics
- MA, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil)
- BA, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil)