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Professor Stephen Machin

Professor Stephen Machin

Director, Centre for Economic Performance and Professor of Economics, London School of Economics

Expertise: labour market inequality, economics of education, economics of crime.

Telephone:
020 7955 7443
Email:
cep.director@lse.ac.uk
s.j.machin@lse.ac.uk
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Biography

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics; Director, Centre for Economic Performance

Professor Stephen Machin's current areas of research are:

  • Labour market inequality: Wage inequality trends; Falling real wages; Trends in assortative matching in earnings; Skill bias in consumption.
  • Economics of education: Academy schools; Phonics programmes for reading; Postgraduates and within-graduate wage inequality; Foreign student increases.
  • Economics of crime: Crime scars and the making of career criminals; Prolific offenders; Prices and returns to crime; Technology and illegal drugs markets.