I am a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College. My current research focuses in two main areas: substantively, I study the stratification consequences of educational policies and institutions, especially those related to horizontal stratification; methodologically, I develop tools to help researchers to credibly and transparently identify causal relationships in social settings. Overall, my research contributes to the agenda of rigorously elucidating mechanisms of social stratification that are potentially responsive to policy interventions, using these well-identified building blocks to reconstruct a systematic model of “status attainment” and the intergenerational transmission of social (dis)advantages.