Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Previously he was Professor of Economics at University College London, and has been visiting Professor at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, has been President of the European Association of Labour Economists, is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and was a member of the UK Low Pay Commission from 2007-13.His current research interests include labour market inequality, education and crime, and the interactions between them.

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Murphy’s Law versus the luck of the Irish: Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th-century courts
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Closing the gap between vocational and general education: University Technical Colleges in England
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- Education

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New dawn fades: The post-referendum rise in import costs has hurt UK workers
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Jihadi attacks, media, and local anti-Muslim hate crime
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Why education reduces crime
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- Education