Staff Biography

Biography:

Education:

• BSc(Econ) Wolverhampton Polytechnic
• PhD Economics University of Warwick

Affiliations/Professional activities with other institutions:

• University College London - Professor of Economics
• Department for Education and Skills - Director, Centre for the Economics of Education

Selected Publications:

• 'Where the Minimum Wage Bites Hard: The Introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage to a Low Wage Sector', Journal of the European Economic Association (with A. Manning and L. Rahman), 1, 154-80 (2003)
  
  
• 'Valuing English Primary Schools', Journal of Urban Economics, 53, 197-219 (with S. Gibbons) (2003).
  
  
• 'Valuing English Primary Schools', Journal of Urban Economics, 53, 197-219 (with S. Gibbons) (2003).
  
  

CEP Publications:

• Education in a Devolved Scotland: A Quantitative Analysis
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Gill Wyness, May 2013
  Paper No' CEPSP30: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• School Structure, School Autonomy and the Tail
  Stephen Machin, Olmo Silva, March 2013
  Paper No' CEPSP29: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Inequality and opportunity: the return of a neglected debate
  Stephen Machin, John Van Reenen, October 2012
  Paper No' CEPUSA004: Read Abstract | Full paper
  One page summary (available in Adobe PDF)
  
  
• Valuing School Quality Using Boundary Discontinuities
  Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin, Olmo Silva, January 2012
  Paper No' CEEDP0132: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Immigrant Enclaves and Crime
  Brian Bell, Stephen Machin, December 2011
  Paper No' CEPDP1104: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Evaluation of English Education Policies
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, December 2011
  Paper No' CEEDP0131: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Boom in Postgraduate Education and Its Impact on Wage Inequality
  Joanne Lindley, Stephen Machin, October 2011
  Paper No' CEPCP351: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises 'Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education' by Joanne Lindley and Stephen Machin, CEP Discussion Paper No. 1075
  
  
• Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
  Joanne Lindley, Stephen Machin, September 2011
  Paper No' CEPDP1075: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Houses and Schools: Valuation of School Quality through then Housing Market - EALE 2010 Presidential Address
  Stephen Machin, May 2011
  Paper No' CEPOP29: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Changing School Autonomy: Academy Schools and their Introduction to England's Education
  Stephen Machin, James Vernoit, April 2011
  Paper No' CEEDP0123: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Academy schools: who benefits?
  Stephen Machin, James Vernoit, November 2010
  Paper No' CEPCP325: Read Abstract | Full paper
  For further reading : 'A Note on Academy School Policy', CEP Policy Analysis, Stephen Machin and James Vernoit (2010) (http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/pa011.pdf).
  
  
• Research on the Intergenerational Links in the Every Child Matters Outcomes.Report to the Department of Children, Schools and Families
  Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy, Emma Tominey, August 2010
  Paper No' CEESP05: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies Across Countries and of Schools within Countries
  Richard Freeman, Stephen Machin, Martina Viarengo, August 2010
  Paper No' CEEDP0117: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• A Note on Academy School Policy
  Stephen Machin, James Vernoit, July 2010
  Paper No' CEPPA011: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• In brief: The educational background of postgrad students
  Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy, July 2010
  Paper No' CEPCP316: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• CEE Special Report: The Children's Workforce: A Data Scoping Study. A Report for the Department of Children, School and Family (DCSF)
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Dongshu Ou, July 2010
  Paper No' CEESP02: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves
  Brian Bell, Francesco Fasani, Stephen Machin, June 2010
  Paper No' CEPDP0984: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Crime Reducing Effect of Education
  Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, Suncica Vujic, May 2010
  Paper No' CEPDP0979: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Inequality: Still Higher, But Labour's Policies Kept it Down
  Stephen Machin, John Van Reenen, April 2010
  Paper No' CEPEA015: Full paper
  Read Main Summary Points
  
  
• The Changing Economic Advantage From Private School
  Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy, Yu Zhu, April 2010
  Paper No' CEEDP0115: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Valuing School Quality Via School Choice Reform
  Stephen Machin, Kjell Salvanes, March 2010
  Paper No' CEEDP0113: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• In brief: Economic Inequality in the UK
  Stephen Machin, February 2010
  Paper No' CEPCP301: Read Abstract | Full paper
  The report of the National Equality Panel, An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK was published in January 2010
  
  
• In Brief: Gender differences in test scores
  Stephen Machin, Tuomas Pekkarinen, June 2009
  Paper No' CEPCP288: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises 'Global Sex Differences in Test Score Variability’ by Stephen Machin and Tuomas Pekkarinen, Science 28 November 2008:Volume 322(5906): 1331-2
  
  
• Academy schools and pupil performance
  Stephen Machin, Joan Wilson, June 2009
  Paper No' CEPCP280: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises 'Public and Private Schooling Initiatives in England' by Stephen Machin and Joan Wilson, a chapter in School Choice International: Exploring Public-Private Partnerships edited by Rajashri Chakrabarti and Paul E. Peterson, MIT Press, 2008.
  
  
• Valuing School Quality Using Boundary Discontinuities
  Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin, Olmo Silva, March 2009
  Paper No' SERCDP0018: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• 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, January 2009
  Paper No' CEEDP0102: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Education and Mobility
  Stephen Machin, Panu Pelkonen, Kjell Salvanes, December 2008
  Paper No' CEEDP0100: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• A continuing downward trend in intergenerational mobility?
  Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin, October 2008
  Paper No' CEPCP263: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Big ideas: rising wage inequality
  Stephen Machin, October 2008
  Paper No' CEPCP260: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Panic on the Streets of London: Police, Crime and the July 2005 Terror Attacks
  Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, Robert Witt, February 2008
  Paper No' CEPDP0852: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Competition for private and state school teachers
  Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Richard Murphy, Yu Zhu, January 2008
  Paper No' CEEDP0094: Full paper
  
  
• Higher education and the labour market
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, October 2007
  Paper No' CEPCP232: Read Abstract | Full paper
  The article summarises 'Tertiary Education Systems and Labour Markets' by Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally, a report prepared for the OECD.
  
  
• Changes in Wage Inequality
  Stephen Machin, John Van Reenen, April 2007
  Paper No' CEPSP18: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Costas Meghir, February 2007
  Paper No' CEEDP0076: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Educational Impact of Parental Choice and School Competition
  Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin, Olmo Silva, December 2006
  Paper No' CEPCP216: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises a series of research papers, including: 'Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement' by Stephen Gibbons, Stephen Machin and Olmo Silva, Discussion Paper No. 56 from the Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE); 'Competition and Accessibility in School Markets: Empirical Analysis Using Boundary Discontinuities' by Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva, in Improving School Accountability: Check-ups or Choice edited by Timothy Gronberg and Dennis Jansen (Elsevier); and 'Urban Density and Pupil Attainment' by Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva, mimeo, CEP.
  
  
• Panic on the Streets of London
  Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, Rober Witt, October  2006
  Paper No' CEPCP207: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• New Technology in Schools: is there a Payoff?
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Olmo Silva, June  2006
  Paper No' CEPCP199: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises 'New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?' by Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally and Olmo Silva, Discussion Paper No. 55 from the Centre for the Economics of Education
  
  
• The Mobility of English School Children
  Stephen Machin, Shqiponja Telhaj, Joan Wilson, May 2006
  Paper No' CEEDP0067: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  Fiscal Studies, 27, 253-280 (2006)
  
  
• Education Policy in the UK
  Stephen Machin, Anna Vignoles, March 2006
  Paper No' CEEDP0057: Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  CESifo DICE Report, 4, 64-74 (2005)
  
  
• Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
  Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin, John Van Reenen, February 2006
  Paper No' CEPDP0715: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Gender and Student Achievement in English Schools
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, February 2006
  Paper No' CEEDP0058: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 21, 357-372 (2005)
  
  
• Competition, Choice and Pupil Achievement
  Steve Gibbons, Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin, Olmo Silva, January 2006
  Paper No' CEEDP0056: Full paper
  
  
• New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff?
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Olmo Silva, January 2006
  Paper No' CEEDP0055: Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  Economic Journal (forthcoming 2007)
  
  
• Can More Police Resources Reduce Crime?
  Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, December 2005
  Paper No' CEPCP190: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article summarises 'Crime and Police Resources:The Street Crime Initiative' by Stephen Machin and Olivier Marie, CEP Discussion Paper No. 680
  
  
• New Survey Evidence on Recent Changes in UK Union Recognition
  Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin, John Van Reenen, May 2005
  Paper No' CEPDP0685: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative
  Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, March 2005
  Paper No' CEPDP0680: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Social Mobility in Britain: Low and Falling
  Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin, February 2005
  Paper No' CEPCP172: Read Abstract | Full paper
  More details on the research discussed here are in 'Intergenerational Mobility in Europe and North America' by Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin - a report supported by the Sutton Trust
  This paper has been published as:
  Jo Blanden, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin, 'Educational Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility' in Stephen Machin and Anna Vignoles (eds.) What's the Good of Education? The Economics of Education in the UK, Princeton University Press, 2005.
  
  
• What's the Good of Education?
  Stephen Machin, Anna Vignoles, February 2005
  Paper No' CEPCP171: Read Abstract | Full paper
  What's the Good of Education? The Economics of Education in the UK edited by Stephen Machin and Anna Vignoles is published by Princeton University Press (2005).
  
  
• The Literacy Hour
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, December 2004
  Paper No' CEEDP0043: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Paying for primary schools: supply constraints, school popularity or congestion?
  Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin, December 2004
  Paper No' CEEDP0042: Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  Economic Journal, 116, 77-92 (2006)
  
  
• Crime and Benefit Sanctions
  Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie, August 2004
  Paper No' CEPDP0645: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Large Benefits, Low Cost
  Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, February 2004
  Paper No' CEPCP152: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This article is based on research published in 'The Literacy Hour' CEE Discussion Paper No'43, December 2004
  
  
• Valuing Rail Access Using Transport Innovations
  Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin, January 2004
  Paper No' CEPDP0611: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Looking for HRM/Union Substitution: Evidence from British Workplaces
  Stephen Machin, Stephen Wood, January 2004
  Paper No' CEPDP0605: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Unto Them That Hath...
  Stephen Machin, February 2003
  Paper No' CEPCP138: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This paper draws on research from Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin, 'Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain' CEE Discussion Paper No. 26, June 2002
  This paper has been published as:
  Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin, 'Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain' in Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2004
  
  
• Factors of Convergence and Divergence in Union Membership
  Stephen Machin, November 2002
  Paper No' CEPDP0554: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Cross-Generation Correlations of Union Status For Young People in Britain
  Jo Blanden, Stephen Machin, November 2002
  Paper No' CEPDP0553: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Where the Minimum Wage Bites Hard: the Introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage to a Low Wage Sector
  Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, Lupin Rahman, September 2002
  Paper No' CEPDP0544: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• The Structure of Wages in What Should be a Competitive Labour Market
  Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, June 2002
  Paper No' CEPDP0532: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Upgrading the Workers
  Stephen Machin, June  2002
  Paper No' CEPCP129: Full paper
  
  
• Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
  Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin, June 2002
  Paper No' CEEDP0026: Read Abstract | Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg and Stephen Machin, Chapter 6: 'Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain' in Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp:122-146.
  
  
• Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
  Jo Blanden, Alissa Goodman, Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin, January 2002
  Paper No' CEPDP0517: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Valuing Primary Schools
  Steve Gibbons, Stephen Machin, September 2001
  Paper No' CEEDP0015: Full paper
  This paper has been published as:
  Journal of Urban Economics, 53, 197-219 (2003)
  
  
• The Relationship between Resource Allocation and Pupil Attainment: A Review
  Rosalind Levacic , Stephen Machin, David  Reynolds, Anna Vignoles, James  Walker , November 2000
  Paper No' CEEDP0002: Full paper
  
  
• How Are the Mightly Fallen
  Stephen Machin, June  2000
  Paper No' CEPCP098:
  
  
• Union Decline in Britain
  Stephen Machin, April 2000
  Paper No' CEPDP0455: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• What Will the New Centre Do? The new Centre for the Economics of Education
  Stephen Machin, Anna Vignoles, February 2000
  Paper No' CEPCP091:
  
  
• Does Crime Pay Better?
  Stephen Machin, Costas Meghir, October  1999
  Paper No' CEPCP082:
  
  
• Minimum Wage: Maximum Impact?
  Richard Dickens, Stephen Machin, October  1998
  Paper No' CEPCP056:
  
  
• The Causes and Consequences of Long-Term Unemployment in Europe
  Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, July 1998
  Paper No' CEPDP0400: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Child Development and Success or Failure in the Youth Labour Market
  Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin, July 1998
  Paper No' CEPDP0397: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence
  E Berman, J Bound, Stephen Machin, September 1997
  Paper No' CEPDP0367: Read Abstract | Full paper
  
  
• Blighted Lives: Disadvantaged Children and Adult Unemployment
  Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin, February 1997
  Paper No' CEPCP021:
  
  
• Technology and Changes in Skill Structure: Evidence from an International Panel of Industries
  Stephen Machin, A Ryan, John Van Reenen, May 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0297: Read Abstract
  
  
• Product Market Competition Wages and Productivity: International Evidence from Establishment-Level Data
  David Blanchflower, Stephen Machin, April 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0286: Read Abstract
  
  
• Intergenerational Mobility in Britain
  Lorraine Dearden, Stephen Machin, H Reed, March 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0281: Read Abstract
  
  
• Trade Unions and Training Practices in British Workplaces
  Francis Green, Stephen Machin, D Wilkinson, February 1996
  Paper No' CEPDP0278: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Executive Pay: Are the Fat Cats Getting Fatter
  Stephen Machin, February 1996
  Paper No' CEPCP002:
  
  
• The Changing Distribution of Male Wages in the UK
  A Gosling, Stephen Machin, November 1995
  Paper No' CEPDP0271: Read Abstract
  
  
• Trade Unions and Financial Performance
  Stephen Machin, M Stewart, May 1995
  Paper No' CEPDP0242: Read Abstract
  
  
• Changes in the Relative Demand for Skills in the UK Labour Market
  Stephen Machin, January 1995
  Paper No' CEPDP0221: Read Abstract
  
  
• The Effect of Minimum Wages on UK Agriculture
  Richard Dickens, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, David Metcalf, Jonathan Wadsworth, S Woodland, August 1994
  Paper No' CEPDP0204: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Estimating the Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment from the Distribution of Wages: A Critical View
  Richard Dickens, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, August 1994
  Paper No' CEPDP0203: Read Abstract | Full paper
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment: Theory and Evidence from Britain
  Richard Dickens, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, January 1994
  Paper No' CEPDP0183: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Are Workers Paid their Marginal Product? Evidence from a Low Wage Labour Market
  Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, S Woodland, July 1993
  Paper No' CEPDP0158: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Trade Unions and the Dispersion of Earnings in UK Establishments
  A Gosling, Stephen Machin, April 1993
  Paper No' CEPDP0140: Read Abstract
  
  
• What has Happened to Union Recognition in Britain?
  R Disney, A Gosling, Stephen Machin, March 1993
  Paper No' CEPDP0130: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• Minimum Wages
  Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, June 1992
  Paper No' CEPDP0080: Read Abstract
  Paper copy now out of print.
  
  
• The Employer Size-Wage Effect: Is Monopsony the Explanation?
  Francis Green, Stephen Machin, Alan Manning, June 1992
  Paper No' CEPDP0079: Read Abstract
  
  
• The Economic Effects of Multiple Unionism: Evidence from the 1984 Workplace Industrial Relations Survey
  Stephen Machin, M Stewart, John Van Reenen, February 1992
  Paper No' CEPDP0066: Read Abstract
  
  
• Signals and Cycles Productivity Growth and Changes in Union Status in British Companies
  Paul Gregg, Stephen Machin, David Metcalf, August 1991
  Paper No' CEPDP0049: Read Abstract
  
  
• The Decline of the Male Breadwinner: Changing Shares of Husbands' and Wives' Earnings in Family Income
  Stephen Machin, Jane Waldfogel,
  Paper No' WSP 103:
  
  
• Evaluating the Pin Money Hypothesis: The relationship between women's labour market activity, family income and poverty in Britain
  Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin, Jane Waldfogel,
  Paper No' WSP 108: