Beatrice Magistro is a PhD student in Political Science at the University of Washington. She holds a Bachelor of International Economics, Management and Finance from Bocconi University (Italy), a Master of Science in Policy Studies from the University of Edinburgh and a Master in Public Policy and Social Change from the Collegio Carlo Alberto (Italy). Her main research interests are European Integration, labor market policy and comparative political economy. Recently she has been working on political trust in crisis-hit European countries,  and on the effects of financial and economic literacy on invididual economic policy preferences in the UK and Italy.