Silvia is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) at the University of Southern California (USC). She is also a Research Associate at the IFS. After obtaining her PhD from Princeton University, Silvia spent three years as an Associate Economist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica before moving to USC.
Her research interests span Health, Labor and Development Economics. Her current projects investigate the determinants of health insurance choice, the effect of health insurance on health and financial outcomes, and the relationship between education and health and how it is mediated by genetic factors. Silvia was awarded the 2015 Albert Rees Prize from the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University. In 2016, Silvia received a Career Development Award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to study the pathways in which health insurance affects mental health and subjective well-being.
Education
PhD Economics, Princeton University, 2010
MA Economics, Princeton University, 2006
MA Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil), 2004
BA Economics, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brazil), 2002
Visiting Student , University of California, Berkeley, 2001