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Maria is a Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Associate at the Wellbeing Research Centre based at Oxford University. She is a Labour Economist who works predominantly in policy evaluation. Her research focuses on wellbeing, inequality, the effects of deprivation and of poor economic experiences, and the well-functioning of labour markets.