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Dr Sara Maioli

Dr Sara Maioli is a lecturer in Economics in Newcastle University Business School and an applied economist. During her post-doc at the School of Nottingham, GEP Research Centre, she worked with plant-level business data held at the London office of the ONS, using in particular the Annual Respondents Database (ARD) business survey, where she investigated issues of price-cost margins, productivity, exporting and FDI. While at Nottingham, in 2004, she was also a co-investigator with Dr Sourafel Girma and Dr Holger Goerg for the research project "Longitudinal micro-data study of Business Support Programmes" funded by DTI (amount £44,560). She will bring her experience in propensity score matching to the project when estimating causal effects using observational data from LSBS.