Anthony Heyes

Anthony Heyes

The Department of Economics
Professor of Environmental Economics

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 8307
Email
a.g.heyes@bham.ac.uk
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Address
Birmingham Business School
Department of Economics
University House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Anthony is an environmental economist with wide-ranging interests in the design and implementation of environmental policies and regulations, the impacts of climate and pollution on human well-being, and corporate social responsibility.

Qualifications

  • BA in Economics, University of Cambridge, 1988
  • PhD in Economics, McGill University, 1993

Teaching

  • Contemporary Challenges B
  • Decision and Game Theory
  • Environmental Economics

Postgraduate supervision

Anthony Heyes is an enthusiastic and “hands on” supervisor. I work closely with students, often co-authoring at least one research paper for external publication, and have supervised more than 10 PhD students through to completion. I am happy to be named as prospective supervisor if you are interested in working on theoretical or empirical topics in any of the areas listed below - looking under the “Publications” tab on this profile page will give you a good idea of the sort of projects I like to be involved in.

I am particularly keen to hear from well-qualified and motivated to students with strong econometric or data science interests and skills, and would encourage you to make informal contact with me in advance of application so that we can discuss your plans and interests at an early stage. 

  • Environmental Economics
  • Economics of the Nature and the Natural Environment
  • Environmental and Development
  • Environment and Health
  • Environmental Policy
  • Climate Economics
  • Urban Economics
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Regulatory Economics
  • Economics of Sustainability
  • The Economics of Public Policy

Research

Research interests

  • Environmental Economics
  • Environmental Policy
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Research Methods

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Heyes, A, Cook, N & Rivers, N 2023, 'Clean Air and Cognitive Productivity: Effect and Adaptation', Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. https://doi.org/10.1086/724951

Chen, J, Fonseca, M, Heyes, A, Yang, J & Zhang, X 2023, 'How Much will Climate Change Reduce Productivity in a High-Technology Supply Chain? Evidence from Silicon Wafer Manufacturing', Environmental & Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-023-00803-4

Heyes, A & Kapur, S 2023, 'The precautionary principle when project implementation capacity is congestible', Theory and Decision. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-023-09934-y

Wang, K & Heyes, A 2022, 'Does the party in power affect FDI? First causal evidence from narrow margin US state elections', Party Politics, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 797-810. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688211030108

Heyes, A & Saberian, S 2022, 'Hot days, the ability to work and climate resilience: evidence from a representative sample of 42,152 Indian households', Journal of Development Economics, vol. 155, 102786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2021.102786

Cook, N & Heyes, A 2022, 'Pollution pictures: psychological exposure to pollution impacts worker productivity in a large-scale field experiment', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 114, 102691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2022.102691

Herrnstadt, E, Heyes, A, Muehlegger, E & Saberian, S 2021, 'Air pollution and criminal activity: microgeographic evidence from Chicago', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 70-100. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20190091

Liston-Heyes, C & Heyes, A 2021, 'Is there evidence for export-led adoption of ISO 14001? A review of the literature using meta-regression', Business and Society, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 764-805. https://doi.org/10.1177/0007650319825856

Comment/debate

Heyes, A & Saberian, S 2022, 'Correction to “Temperature and decisions: evidence from 207,000 court cases” and reply to Spamann', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 529-533. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20200068

Brodeur, A, Cook, N & Heyes, A 2022, 'Methods matter: p-hacking and publication bias in causal analysis in economics: reply', American Economic Review, vol. 112, no. 9, pp. 3137-3139. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20220277

Preprint

Heyes, A & Zhu, M 2022 'Air pollution and morbidity: evidence from internet search behavior in a panel of 100 Chinese cities' SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4043726

Brodeur, A, Cook, N, Hartley, J & Heyes, A 2022 'Do pre-registration and pre-analysis plans reduce P-hacking and publication bias?' SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4180594

Brodeur, A, Cook, N & Heyes, A 2022 'We need to talk about mechanical Turk: what 22,989 hypothesis tests tell us about publication bias and P-hacking in online experiments' SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4188289

Heyes, A & Cook, N 2021 'A boss like me' SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3973667

Working paper

Archsmith, JE, Heyes, AG, Neidell, MJ & Sampat, BN 2021 'The dynamics of inattention in the (baseball) field' NBER Working Paper, no. 28922, SSRN. <https://ssrn.com/abstract=3866354>

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