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Professor Stephen Machin FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
Economics
Sections
Economics and Economic History
Website
http://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/faculty/stephen-machin

Current post

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

Past appointments

University College London Professor of Economics

1996 - 2017

Publications

What is the good of education (2005)

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 (2003)

Technology and changes in skill structure: evidence from seven OECD countries Quarterly Journal of Economics (1998)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Thomas Piketty FBA

Historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict. These works have led to emphasise the role of political, social and fiscal institutions in the historical evolution of income and wealth distribution

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Professor Janet Currie FBA

Economics of investing in children; socioeconomic differences in health and access to care, environmental threats, mental health, short and longer-run impacts of conditions in pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence

Janet Currie FBA

Professor Hélène Rey FBA

International macroeconomics & internation finance; exchange rates, capital flows & the international monetary system; Countries' external accounts & financial crises

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