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Stephen Machin

Stephen Machin is a professor of economics and director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.

October 2020

  • Peabody estate in London with Canary Wharf in distance

    Only radical reform can fix Britain's broken ladder of social mobility

    Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
    Coronavirus has exposed the unfairness of British society. Politicians ignore this at their peril, say professors Lee Elliott Major and Stephen Machin

September 2018

  • Female secondary school pupil working at a desk in classroom

    Social mobility requires far more than a good education

    Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin
    Privileged families will stop at nothing to prevent their children being overtaken, say Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin, authors of Social Mobility and Its Enemies