Cristina Specchi

PhD Student in Public Governance, Management and Policy. She is graduated in Economics and Political Economy from the University of Bologna.

Her research combines quantitative and qualitative methods to better understand inequalities in education and to identify effective public policies that can reduce them. She applies causal inference approaches in policy evaluation, including experimental methods and natural experiment settings, and complement them with qualitative analyses of laws, policies, and stakeholder perspectives.

Collaborating with other researchers, she focuses on inequalities in secondary and tertiary education, and on the mechanisms through which socioeconomic conditions and social norms contribute to the transmission of inequalities. Her work often involves the analysis of large administrative datasets on students at different stages of education, which she integrate with additional sources to provide a comprehensive picture of the challenges and opportunities within educational systems.

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