Stephen Machin

Research Fellow

London School of Economics

s.j.machin@lse.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Previously he has been visiting Professor at Harvard University (1993/4) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2001/2). He was an independent member of the Low Pay Commission in the UK and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has been President of the European Association of Labor Economists (2009-11) and is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2002.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4719

Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform

Stephen Machin, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3866

What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education

Francis Kramarz, Stephen Machin, Amine Ouazad

published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3845

Education and Mobility

Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen, Kjell G. Salvanes

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 10 (2), 417-50.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3410

Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, Robert Witt

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2157-2181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2653

Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Costas Meghir

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2010, 4 (4), 365-393