Stephen Machin, Professor at and Head of the Department of Economics at University College London, heads the Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom. The CEE is sponsored by the U.K. Department for Education and Skills, established in 2000 to undertake systematic and innovative research in the field of the economics of education. This genuinely interdisciplinary research centre, whose three partners are the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE, the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Institute of Education, includes experts in the fields of education, economics and statistics. Machin has been a Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick. Machin is Editor of the Economic Journal and Associate Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Organization, and has formerly been Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization and Associate Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics. He functioned as Guest Editor of the German Economic Review on a Special Issue on the Economics of Education: Policy Issues and Empirical Evidence, 2005, and as Guest Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy on the Issue on Education, 2004. He is also affiliated with CESifo, CEPR and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Machin is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Labour Economists, he is the Coordinator of the EUR Research and Training Network on “The Economics of Education and Education Policy in Europe (EEPEE)”, and he is both member of the Home Office Economics Advisory Panel and of the Home Office Science and Technology Reference Group. Machin has worked widely in the economics of education and other areas, with papers published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the European Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of Human Resources, among many others. In the economics of education, his work has focused on the effects of skill-biased technological change and the demand for skills, intergenerational mobility, childhood disadvantage, education and wage inequality, inequality of access to higher education and evaluation of recent education policy interventions. Machin heads the Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) at the LSE, one of the largest research institutes with a special focus on the economics of education in Europe. Many other important researchers in the area of the economics of education like Peter Dolton, Sandra Steven McIntosh, Sandra McNally and Anna Vignoles are affiliated to this institute. The CEE is a modern multidisciplinary centre that provides innovative empirical research in the economics of education using state-of-the-art methods. The institute covers a broad range of questions such as why people invest in education and training, the way education systems are organized, and the impact of education and skill acquisition on economic outcomes and other important categories like social justice and equity. Within the programme, all relevant stages of education are analyzed, from early childhood education to life-long learning. Major contributions have been made on topics like returns to education; adult learning; the link between family background and educational attainment; the effects of school choice and competition; the ‘value’ of primary education as reflected in the housing market; the labour market for teachers. In sum, the institute and its staff provide an inspiring and stimulating research atmosphere for our senior expert. Machin will geographically cover the British Isles, i.e. the United Kingdom and Ireland, for the network.
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