Silvia Tiezzi is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Siena’s Department of Economics and Statistics. Her research addresses empirical questions at the intersection of health economics, environmental economics, and behavioral public economics. Methodologically, she combines standard empirical microeconometrics using observational data and experimental methods to study how individual consumption behaviour can inform and shape public policy.
She has been the recipient of a Marie Curie Fellowship and is currently managing a nationally-funded research project. She has been a Visiting Marie Curie Scholar at Carnegie Mellon University, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal, and a Visiting Associate Professor at Monash University. She is an External Affiliate of the Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) and was previously a Research Associate at the Pittsburgh Experimental Economics Laboratory (PEEL).