Dr Edward Pinchbeck

Dr Edward Pinchbeck

The Department of Economics
Associate Professor In Economics

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Edward, more commonly known as Ted, is an Associate Professor in Economics at Birmingham Business School. He is an applied micro-econometrician with interests in urban, environmental economics, political economy and economic history. Before joining Birmingham he was a lecturer at City University, and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at London School of Economics, where he completed his PhD.  Previously he spent around 7 years as an economic advisor in the Government Economic Service where he gained extensive experience of providing economic advice to policy-makers.

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Qualifications

  • PhD in Economic Geography, LSE, 2016
  • MSc in Real Estate Economics and Finance, LSE, 2012
  • MSc in Economics, Warwick), 2003
  • PG CERT Higher Education (Associate level), 2016
  • RSA CELTA

Teaching

Contemporary Issues in the UK Economy

Extended Essay supervision

Other activities

Ted has been an invited referee for a number of prestigious economics journals including: Econometrica, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Regional Science & Urban Economics.

He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society, and the Urban Economics Association.

He has organised several groups and conferences. For example, he was on the organising committee for 7th, 8th and 9th Annual SERC (Spatial Economics Research Centre) conferences. He was also the organiser for the London Health Economics Group (LHEG) meetings.

During his time at LSE he was an Advisory Board member for the MSc Real Estate Economics and Finance.

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Carozzi, F, Pinchbeck, E & Repetto, L 2026, 'Scars of War: The Legacy of WWI Deaths on Civic Capital and Combat Motivation', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.

Gibbons, S, Heblich, S & Pinchbeck, T 2024, 'The Spatial Impacts of a Massive Rail Disinvestment Program: The Beeching Axe', Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 143, 103691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2024.103691

Pinchbeck, T, Roth, S, Szumilo, N & Vanino, E 2023, 'The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market', Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1439-1473. https://doi.org/10.1086/725028

Koster, HRA & Pinchbeck, E 2022, 'How do households value the future? Evidence from property taxes', American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 207-239. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20200443

Pinchbeck, T 2019, 'Convenient primary care and emergency hospital utilisation', Journal of Health Economics, vol. 68, 102242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102242

Hilber, CAL, Palmer, C & Pinchbeck, T 2019, 'The energy costs of historic preservation', Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 114, 103197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2019.103197

Bracke, P, Pinchbeck, T & Wyatt, J 2018, 'The time value of housing: Historical evidence on discount rates', Economic Journal, vol. 128, no. 613, pp. 1820-1843. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12501

Working paper

Gibbons, S, Heblich, S & Pinchbeck, EW 2024 'The Spatial Impacts of a Massive Rail Disinvestment Program: The Beeching Axe' National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w32800

Carozzi, F, Pinchbeck, T & Repetto, L 2023 'Scars of War: The Legacy of WW1 Deaths on Civic Capital and Combat Motivation' CESifo Working Papers, no. 10298, CESifo, pp. 1-61. <https://www.cesifo.org/en/publications/2023/working-paper/scars-war-legacy-ww1-deaths-civic-capital-and-combat-motivation>

Pinchbeck, T, Roth, S, Szumilo, N & Vanino, E 2020 'The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Radon Maps and the Housing Market' IZA Discussion Paper Series, no. 13655, IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, pp. 1-36. <http://ftp.iza.org/dp13655.pdf>

Gibbons, S, Heblich, S & Pinchbeck, T 2018 'The Spatial Impacts of a Massive Rail Disinvestment Program: The Beeching Axe' CEP discussion papers, no. 1563, Centre for Economic Performance. <http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/dp1563.pdf>

Pinchbeck, T 2014 'The Time Value of Housing: Historical Evidence from London Residential Leases' 168 edn, Spatial Economics Research Centre. <https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/64504/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_SERC%20discussion%20papers_2014_sercdp0168.pdf>

Pinchbeck, T 2014 'Walk This Way: Estimating Impacts of Walk in Centres at Hospital Emergency Departments in the English National Health Service' 167 edn, Spatial Economics Research Centre, London.

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