Silvia Helena Barcellos

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 area 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. 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.

CDE Research Area Affiliation:

Health & Biodemography; Families & Family Change

Selected Publications:

Barcellos, Silvia H., Leandro S. Carvalho, and Patrick Turley. “Distributional effects of education on health.” Journal of Human Resources 58, no. 4 (2023): 1273-1306. PMCID: PMC10361687

Barcellos, Silvia Helena, Mireille Jacobson, and Helen G. Levy. “The Impact of Eligibility for Medicaid versus Subsidized Private Health Insurance on Medical Spending, Self-Reported Health, and Public Program Participation.” American Journal of Health Economics 9, no. 2 (2023): 262-295. NIHMS ID 1927873