Sylke V. Schnepf

Research Fellow

European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre

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Research Interests

Sylke Viola Schnepf (Ph.D.) is a senior policy advisor in the Science for Modelling, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy. She is part of the Survey Methods and Analysis Centre (SMAC) team conducting research on survey design, fairness and loneliness. She also contributes to the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation through research, teaching and advisory activities on quantitative education policy evaluation. Before joining the JRC in 2014, she was an associate professor in social statistics at the University of Southampton, UK. Sylke has a long publication record on patterns of cross-national educational inequalities and counterfactual impact evaluation of policies aimed at mitigating these inequalities.


Sylke joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in August 2004 and became a Research Fellow in February 2007

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16531
COVID-19 and the European Education Performance Decline: A Focus on Primary School Children's Reading Achievement between 2016 and 2021
Sylke V. Schnepf, Silvia Granato
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14651
Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Academic Performance: Evidence from Erasmus Applications
Silvia Granato, Enkelejda Havari, Gianluca Mazzarella, Sylke V. Schnepf
published as 'Study abroad programmes and student outcomes: Evidence from Erasmus' in: Economics of Education Review, 2024, 99, 102510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14298
Learning Loss and Educational Inequalities in Europe: Mapping the Potential Consequences of the COVID-19 Crisis
Zsuzsa Blaskó, Patricia da Costa, Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version publlished in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2022, 32 (4), 361-375
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14245
Loneliness and Social Isolation: An Unequally Shared Burden in Europe
Beatrice d'Hombres, Martina Barjaková, Sylke V. Schnepf
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13157
Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Sylke V. Schnepf, Elena Bastianelli, Zsuzsa Blaskó
revised version published online as 'What can explain the socio-economic gap in international student mobility uptake? Similarities between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK' in: European Education Research Journal, 2024, 23 (4), 479 - 502
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12302
Like (Grand)Parent, like Child? Multigenerational Mobility across the EU
Marco Colagrossi, Beatrice d'Hombres, Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2020, 130, 103600
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12033
International Mobility of Students in Italy and the UK: Does It Pay off and for Whom?
Sylke V. Schnepf, Beatrice d'Hombres
revised version published in: Higher Education 2021, 82, 1173-1194.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9707
Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Nicholas Bardsley, Milena Buechs, Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8411
Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample
Sylke V. Schnepf, Gabriele B. Durrant, John Micklewright
revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (4), 1057 - 1074
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8015
Do Tertiary Dropout Students Really Not Succeed in European Labour Markets?
Sylke V. Schnepf
revised version published as 'How do Tertiary Dropouts fare in the Labour Market? A Comparison between EU countries' in: Higher Education Quarterly, 2017, 1, 75-96
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