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The principal motivation of my research is to identify impacts, inefficiencies and inequalities related to health and the environment, exploring how behaviours, context, and policy instruments can promote greater social and environmental justice. The sources of these differences are multifaceted, and I leverage economics and econometrics to model the determinants of health while evaluating the role of individuals, their environment, and policy instruments in reducing societal disparities.
Addressing these complex issues increasingly requires interdisciplinary collaborations to integrate the latest advances from various disciplines and produce evidence at the research frontier. While my expertise and main collaborations lie in both health and environmental economics, I regularly step outside my comfort zone to bring in complementary skills, collaborating with experts such as epidemiologists, chemists, and medical doctors. This approach allows me to produce work that contributes not only to advancements in economics but sometimes also provides evidence that can be useful to other experts, including public health organisations. The latter has enabled me to communicate pieces of evidence to a broader audience, amplifying their impact and fostering positive changes.
Finally, while my expertise in economic evaluations grew as a result of our teaching needs, it led me to propose the first concrete application of economic evaluation that accounts for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in the healthcare sector.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Environment and Health Economics
Yong Soo K., U J 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).
de Preux L, D Rizmie, D Fecht, J Gulliver, W Wang, 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.
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.
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, ISSN: 1549-1277.
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.
Martin, R, L de Preux and U Wagner. 2014. The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Business: 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.
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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.
• Won the Erik Kempe Award in Environmental and Resource Economics
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.
Public Health & Environment
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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.
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).
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.
Medicine
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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
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, Vol: 2021, link.
Ulrich J Wagner, Dana Kassem, Andreas Gerster, Jurate Jaraite, Marit E Klemetsen, Marita Laukkanen, Ralf Martin, Jakob Roland Munch, Mirabelle Muûls, Laure de Preux, Knut Einar Rosendahl, Sandra Schusser, 2020. Carbon Footprints of European Manufacturing Jobs: Stylized Facts and Implications for Climate Policy, Discussion Paper Series – CRC TR 224, Universität Mannheim.
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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 Publications.
de Preux Gallone LB, Sassi F, 2018, Chapter 5 Economics of Pollution Interventions, Chief Medical Officer annual report 2017: health impacts of all pollution – what do we know?, Publisher: Department of Health and Social Care, 5.
de Preux, L. The Parent Trap. 2014. ESRC Britain in 2015:98-99.
Martin, R., and U. Wagner. 2012. The polluter-doesn't-pay principle. CEP Centre Piece 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.