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CESR Staff

CESR Staff

Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Mario Chen
  • Sandy Chien
  • Aidan Cole
  • Graciela Corona
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Kayla de la Haye
  • Brian Finch
  • Deborah Finkel
  • Grigory Franguridi
  • Maya Fransz-Myers
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Marshall Garland
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Tadeja Gracner
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Angelica Hernandez
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Danish Jain
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Brett Jordan
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Pey-Jiuan Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Rachel Lobo
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kelly Luo
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Mary Mitchell
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Emma Nichols
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Blake Palomino
  • Hae Yeun Park
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Olivia Pomeroy
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Catalina Ruple
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Daniel Silver
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Rory Torres
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Arthur Wang
  • Michele Warnock
  • Maya Wedemeyer
  • Bas Weerman
  • McKayla Wenner
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Chrys Xie
  • Codi Young
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Alyssa Zhou
  • Silvia Helena Barcellos
  • Arie Kapteyn
  • Marco Angrisani
  • Alan Arredondo
  • Andrew Becker
  • Daniel Bennett
  • Marta Bilghese
  • Wandi Bruine de Bruin
  • Jeremy Burke
  • Leandro Carvalho
  • Mario Chen
  • Sandy Chien
  • Aidan Cole
  • Graciela Corona
  • Jill Darling
  • Ashlesha Datar
  • Kayla de la Haye
  • Brian Finch
  • Deborah Finkel
  • Grigory Franguridi
  • Maya Fransz-Myers
  • Titus Galama
  • Yadira Garcia
  • Marshall Garland
  • Margaret Gatz
  • Hooman Gol
  • Sarah Goldstein
  • Mark Gonzalez
  • Tadeja Gracner
  • Hunter Green
  • Tania Gutsche
  • Orla Hayden
  • Angelica Hernandez
  • Raymond Hernandez
  • Danish Jain
  • Marai Jimenez Ortiz
  • Brett Jordan
  • Doerte U. Junghaenel
  • Miles Kimball
  • Dave Knapp
  • Tarra Kohli
  • Jinkook Lee
  • Pey-Jiuan Lee
  • Yeeun Lee
  • Ruby Ling
  • Ying Liu
  • Rachel Lobo
  • Italo Lopez Garcia
  • Jessica Lozano
  • Kelly Luo
  • Jill Luoto
  • Soeren Mattke
  • Erik Meijer
  • Mary Mitchell
  • Michael Moldoff
  • Emma Nichols
  • Bart Orriens
  • Eva Ortega
  • Astrid Ouyang
  • Tabasa Ozawa
  • Blake Palomino
  • Hae Yeun Park
  • Francisco Perez-Arce
  • Sarah Petrosyan
  • Drystan Phillips
  • Olivia Pomeroy
  • Maria Jose Prados
  • Lila Rabinovich
  • Amie Rapaport
  • Catalina Ruple
  • Anna Saavedra
  • Swaroop Samek
  • Evan Sandlin
  • Htay-Wah Saw
  • Simone Schaner
  • Stefan Schneider
  • Daniel Silver
  • Arthur Stone
  • Alejandra Tantamango
  • Kyla Thomas
  • Meynard John Toledo
  • Rory Torres
  • Patrick Turley
  • Pam Tyler
  • Michael Upchurch
  • Marymar Vacio
  • Arthur Wang
  • Michele Warnock
  • Maya Wedemeyer
  • Bas Weerman
  • McKayla Wenner
  • Jenny Wilkens
  • Chrys Xie
  • Codi Young
  • Gema Zamarro
  • Alyssa Zhou

Silvia Helena Barcellos

Associate Professor
Contact
VPD, Room 505F
213.821.2732
silvia.barcellos@usc.edu
Links
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Website
Biographical Sketch
Silvia Helena Barcellos is an Associate Research Professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Department of Economics and Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR). She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2010. Her research interests span health and  labor economics. Her work has been published at the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Human Resources. For more information about her current and past research please click on "Personal Website" above.
Education
Ph.D. Economics, Princeton University, 06/2010
M.A. Economics, Princeton University, 06/2006
M.A. Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil), 12/2004
B.A. Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil), 12/2002
Employment
Faculty Research Fellow, NBER, 2018
Assistant Research Professor of Economics, USC, 2018-2022
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University College London, 2016-2017
Faculty Research Fellow, IFS London UK, 2015
Economist, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at USC, 2013
Economist, USC, 2012
Professor of Economics, RAND Corporation, 2012-2014
RCMAR Scholar, USC, 2011-2015
Associate Economist, RAND Corporation, 2009-2013
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