Publications

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My research sits at the intersection of health and environmental economics, often in interdisciplinary teams. It includes economic evaluation that accounts for the greenhouse-gas emissions of the healthcare sector.

Working papers

  • “Does pollution disrupt sleep? Evidence from a pedestrianisation policy in Paris”, with Dheeya Rizmie, Marisa Miraldo and Petya Atanasova
  • “The Health Co-Pollution Impacts of Climate Policy: Evidence from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme”, with Ulrich Wagner and Dana Kassem
  • “Public Health Impacts of Industrial Decarbonization”, with Yixuan Gu, Daven K. Henze and Ulrich J. Wagner
  • “How is climate fuelling the thirst for sweetness?”, with Maxime Roche

Peer-reviewed publications

Economics

Authorship order follows the economics convention (alphabetical or reverse).

Gillingham, KT, L Barrage, S Armitage, D Burtraw, J Colmer, L de Preux, J Hawkins-Pierot, C Holt, VJ Karplus, Å Löfgren, R Martin, N Miller, M Muûls, M Osborne, E Severnini, W Shobe, G Sileo, V Smirnyagin, T Stoerk, A Tsyvinski, K Wagner, UJ Wagner, X Wu (2025). New frontiers in research on industrial decarbonization. Science 390(6771): 338–340.

Yong Soo K, UJ Wagner, P Shen, L de Preux, M Muûls, R Martin and J Cao (2024). Management Practices and Climate Policy in China. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11(5).

Rizmie, D, L de Preux, M Miraldo and R Atun (2022). Impact of extreme temperatures on emergency hospital admissions by age and socio-economic deprivation in England. Social Science & Medicine 308: 115193.

Martin, R, L de Preux and U Wagner (2014). The Impacts of a Carbon Tax on Manufacturing: Evidence from Microdata. Journal of Public Economics 117: 1–14.

Martin, R, M Muûls, L de Preux and U Wagner (2014). On the Empirical Content of Carbon Leakage Criteria in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Ecological Economics 105: 78–88.

Martin, R, M Muûls, L de Preux and U Wagner (2014). Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. American Economic Review 104(8): 2482–2508. Erik Kempe Award

Martin, R, M Muûls, L de Preux and U Wagner (2012). Anatomy of a Paradox: Management Practices, Organizational Structure and Energy Efficiency. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63(2): 208–223.

de Preux, L (2011). Anticipatory Ex Ante Moral Hazard and the Effect of Medicare on Prevention. Health Economics 20(9): 1056–1072.

Environment and public health

Author list follows the medical field convention.

Pega, F, NC Momen, SA Agyemang, L Bojke, J Costa-Font, L de Preux, EP Fenichel, B Gordon, MC Hensher, R Johnston, Y Krishnamoorthy, A Kolimenakis, MA Malik, H Matsuura, N Nghiem, B O’Hare, M Rathi, LA Robinson, D Campbell-Lendrum (2026). Valuing mortality risk reductions in benefit-cost analyses of environment- and climate-health actions. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 104(4): 246–258.

de Preux L, Rizmie D, Fecht D, Gulliver J, Wang W (2023). Does it measure up? A comparison of pollution exposure assessment techniques applied across hospitals in England. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(5): 3852.

Lambourg E, C Siani, L de Preux (2022). Use of a high-volume prescription database to explore health inequalities in England: assessing impacts of social deprivation and temperature on the prescription volume of medicines. Journal of Public Health 30: 2231–2242.

Riley R, L de Preux, P Capella, C Mejia, Y Kajikawa and A de Nazelle (2021). How do we effectively communicate air pollution to change public attitudes and behaviours? A review. Sustainability Science 16(6).

Bloom C, L de Preux, A Sheikh, J Quint (2020). Health and cost impact of stepping down asthma medication for UK patients, 2001–2017: A population-based observational study. PLoS Medicine.

Fecht D, CE Sheridan, CJ Roscoe, J Gulliver and L de Preux (2019). Inequalities in exposure to nitrogen dioxide in parks and playgrounds in Greater London. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16: 1–11.

de Preux LB, Rizmie D (2018). Beyond financial efficiency to support environmental sustainability in economic evaluations. Future Healthcare Journal 5: 103–107.

Pimpin L, L Retat, D Fecht, L de Preux, F Sassi, J Gulliver, et al. (2018). Estimating the costs of air pollution to the National Health Service and social care: An assessment and forecast up to 2035. PLoS Medicine 15(7): e1002602.

Medicine

Author list follows the medical field convention.

Shah E, L Fernandes, D Padmasri, N Chittoo, Z Ala, M Bass, L de Preux (2026). Deprivation and primary care network performance: a national cross-sectional study of the Investment and Impact Fund scheme. BJGP Open.

Kotecha, JP, S Tagalpallewar, D Banerjee, MH Sarker, E Deng, C Tsang, T K, L de Preux (2026). Greening Lean: Overcoming barriers to integrating environmental practices in surgical Lean management projects: A scoping review. Current Problems in Surgery 101978.

Jeyarajan S, T K, S Pimpalnerkar, E Deng, Z Ahmad, D Banerjee, L de Preux (2025). Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of replacing lansoprazole with vonoprazan for treating erosive oesophagitis. BMJ Open Gastroenterology 12: e001709.

Satheeskaran M, A Hussan, A Anto, L de Preux (2023). Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Antibiotic Prophylaxis versus No Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Acute Cholecystectomy. BMJ Open Gastroenterology 10(1).

Sheikh Y, Asunramu H, Low H, Gakhar D, Muthukumar K, Yassin H, de Preux L (2022). A Cost-Utility Analysis of Mesh Prophylaxis in the Prevention of Incisional Hernias following Stoma Closure Surgery. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19: 13553.

Patel N, N Yung, G Vigneswaran, L de Preux, D Maclean, M Harris, B Somani, T Bryant, N Hacking and S Modi (2021). 1-year cost-utility analysis of prostate artery embolization (PAE) versus transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). BMJ Surgery, Interventions, & Health Technologies 3(1).

Behranwala R, N Aojula, A Hagana, N Houbby and L de Preux (2021). An economic evaluation for the use of decompressive craniectomy in the treatment of refractory traumatic intracranial hypertension. Brain Injury 35(4).

Shabir H, S Hashemi, M Al-Rufayie, T Adelowo, U Riaz, U Ullah, B Alam, M Anwar and L de Preux (2021). Cost-Utility Analysis of Oxybutynin vs. OnabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) in the Treatment of Overactive Bladder Syndrome. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(16).

Ali A, Z Mobarak, M Al-Jumaily, M Anwar, Z Moti, N Zaman, A Reza Akbari and L de Preux (2021). Cost-Utility Analysis of Antibiotic Therapy versus Appendicectomy for Acute Uncomplicated Appendicitis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18(16).

Non-refereed publications and book chapters

de Preux, L (2023). The Role of Managerial Practices in the Transition Towards Net Zero. In Cantillon, E et al. (eds), Réussir la transition vers une économie zéro carbone, Editions de l’Université Ouverte (forthcoming).

de Preux, L (2022). Winter of discontent? How extreme temperatures in England expose inequalities in hospital use. Forbes.

de Preux L, Rizmie D (2021). How is the healthcare sector dealing with climate change? Economics Observatory.

Wagner, UJ, D Kassem, A Gerster, J Jaraite, ME Klemetsen, M Laukkanen, R Martin, JR Munch, M Muûls, L de Preux, KE Rosendahl, S Schusser (2020). Carbon Footprints of European Manufacturing Jobs: Stylized Facts and Implications for Climate Policy. Discussion Paper Series, CRC TR 224, Universität Mannheim.

Adomako-Mensah V, Belloni A, Blawat A, de Preux L, Green E, Jaccard A, Retat L, Sassi F, Thiebault S, Webber L (2020). The health and social care costs of a selection of health conditions and multimorbidities. Public Health England.

de Preux Gallone LB, Sassi F (2018). Chapter 5: Economics of Pollution Interventions. Chief Medical Officer annual report 2017: health impacts of all pollution, Department of Health and Social Care.

de Preux, L (2014). The Parent Trap. ESRC Britain in 2015: 98–99.

Martin, R, L de Preux and U Wagner (2012). The polluter-doesn’t-pay principle. CEP CentrePiece 369.

Anderson B, J Leib, R Martin, M McGuigan, M Muûls, L de Preux and U Wagner (2011). Climate Change Policy and Business in Europe: Evidence from interviewing managers. CEP Occasional Paper No. 27.