Edward William Pinchbeck

• Fellow at University of Birmingham

Despite the near ubiquity of intertemporal choice, there is little consensus on the rate at which individuals trade present and future costs and benefits. We contribute to this debate by estimating discount rates from extensive data on housing transactions and spatiotemporal variation in property taxes in England. Our findings imply long-term avera...

This paper uses the housing market to examine the costs of indoor air pollution. We focus on radon, an indoor air pollutant which is the largest source of exposure to natural ionising radiation and the leading cause of lung cancer after smoking. To overcome potential confounders, we exploit a natural experiment whereby a risk map update in England...

We explore the impact of historic preservation policies on domestic energy consumption. Using panel data for England from 2006 to 2013 and employing a fixed effects strategy, we document that (i) rising national energy prices induce an increase in home energy efficiency installations and a corresponding reduction in energy consumption and (ii) this...

Participation and utilisation decisions lie at the heart of many public policy questions. I contribute new evidence by using hospital records to examine how access to primary care services affects utilisation of hospital Emergency Departments in England. Using a natural experiment in the roll out of services, I first show that access to primary car...

Most London housing transactions involve trading long leases of varying lengths. We exploit this to estimate the time value of housing―the relationship between the price of a property and the term of ownership―over a hundred years and derive implied discount rates. For our empirical analysis, we compile a unique historical dataset (1987 to 1992) to...

Most London housing transactions involve trading long leases of varying lengths. We exploit this to estimate the time value of housing-the relationship between the price of a property and the term of ownership-over a hundred years and derive implied discount rates. For our empirical analysis, we compile a unique historical dataset (1987 to 1992) to...

This thesis is composed of four independent empirical essays that draw on and contribute to aspects of health, urban, public, and environmental economics. The chapters can be split into two distinct parts. The first part comprises two chapters that provide new quantitative evidence about the impacts of recent health care policies in the English Nat...