Joan Madia

Joan Madia

Joan Madia

DPhil in Sociology

Supervisor: Jan O. Jonsson

I am a DPhil student in Sociology and a non-stipendiary affiliate member at the Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (FBK-IRVAPP) in Italy. My research interests focus on drawing causal inference using counterfactual and microsimulation approaches; the analysis of inequalities in education and health, and the evaluation of policies aimed at reducing them.

My thesis looks at the problem of identifying and quantifying performance and choice effects in educational stratification research and how this approach could become useful for informing policy.

I am also collaborating in an ESRC large grant, the EXCLUDED LIVES project, at the Department of Education, Oxford, in which we are studying the predictors and mid-long-term consequences of school exclusion in the UK.