I am Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham and an Affiliate of the Institute for Data Science & AI.
My research interests are in economic history, economic geography / urban economics, and political economy.
Before (re-)entering academia I worked as a professional economist in the UK government.
Google scholar ORCID Birmingham CV Research Statement
email: e.w.pinchbeck at bham.ac.uk
Nb I go by Ted as my grandmother Helen Edward served in the WAAF in WW2 and was nicknamed Ted: my family decided I should be Ted too!
Published & Accepted Papers
Scars of War: the Legacy of WW1 Deaths on Civic Capital and Combat Motivation
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, forthcoming -- with Felipe Carozzi and Luca Repetto
The Spatial Impacts of a Massive Rail Disinvestment Program: The Beeching Axe
Journal of Urban Economics, 2024 -- with Stephen Gibbons and Stephan Heblich
The Price of Indoor Air Pollution: Evidence from Risk Maps and the Housing Market
JAERE, 2023-- with Sefi Roth, Niko Szumilo, and Enrico Vanino
How do Households Value the Future? Evidence from Property Taxes
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022 -- with Hans Koster
The Energy Costs of Historic Preservation
Journal of Urban Economics, 2019 -- with Christian Hilber and Charles Palmer
Convenient Primary Care and Emergency Hospital Utilisation
The Time Value of Housing: Historical Evidence on Discount Rates
Economic Journal, 2018 -- with Philippe Bracke and James Wyatt
Working Papers & Work in Progress
The Inefficiency of Tied Subsidies: Evidence from the Privatisation of UK Public Housing
with Hans Koster -- R&R American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Human-Capital Shocks and Innovation: Evidence from Britain’s Lost Generation
with Jan Bietenbeck, Davide Cipullo and Luca Repetto
Urban sprawl in early XXth Century England: Evidence from a new definition of Labour Market Areas
with Felipe Carozzi and Mike Coombes
Does Cultural Diversity Improve Firm-Level Patent Outcomes? Quasi-experimental Evidence from Dutch Policy Reforms
with Yuedi Guan and Ceren Ozgen
Paving the Road for Deforestation. Dynamic, Spatial, and Heterogeneous Effects of Toll Roads in Indonesia
with Sondang Rosalina and Rob Elliott