Newcastle University

Background

Professor Jones-Lee has been an advisory group member to the World Health Organisation project on Health Costs Related to Air Pollution. He has similarly served on an equivalent Department of Health group in the UK. The European Commission ran a Working Group on the Economic Evaluation of Road Safety in 1997-1998 in which he participated.

In related work, the results of a HSE/DETR/Home Office/Treasury funded project, of which he was a Principal Investigator, led the DETR to revise upwards the monetary value of the prevention of a road fatality. His experience in this field has recently led to him being called as an expert witness before the Cullen Inquiry into rail safety.

Currently he and his colleagues are engaged in a project on the valuation of reductions of "dread" risks commissioned by the MSE abd a project on the valuation of a QALY commissioned by NICE and NCCRM.

Qualifications

BEng Sheff DPhil York

Research Interests

Welfare economics, individual choice under uncertainty, the economics of safety; Empirical investigation of attitudes to physical risk using sample surveys.

• Donaldson C, Baker R, Mason H, Jones-Lee M, Lancsar E, Wildman J, Bateman I, Loomes G, Robinson A, Sugden R, Prades JLP, Ryan M, Shackley P, Smith R. The social value of a QALY: raising the bar or barring the raise?. BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11(1), 8.
• Chilton S, Jones-Lee M, McDonald R, Metcalf H. Willingness to Pay, Willingness to Accept and “Smooth vs Kinked” Utility of Wealth Functions: An Empirical Test of a Theoretical Debate. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Newcastle University Business School, 2010. Newcastle Discussion Papers in Economics 2010-6.
• Jones-Lee MW, Guria J, Leung J, Loomes G. Some Policy Implications of a Disparity Between Willingness to Accept and Willingness to Pay-Based Values of Statistical Life : A Note. 2005.
• Guria J, Leung J, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G. The willingness to accept value of statistical life relative to the willingness to pay value: Evidence and policy implications. Environmental and Resource Economics 2005, 32(1), 113-127.
• Chilton S, Covey J, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G, Metcalf H. Valuation of Health Benefits Associated with Reductions in Air Pollution. London: DEFRA, 2004. Final.
• Jones-Lee M. Valuing international safety externalities: Does the "golden rule" apply?. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2004, 29(3), 277-287.
• Jones-Lee M. Economic Value of Life. In: Demency, P; McNicoll, G, ed. Encyclopaedia of Population. New York: Macmillan, 2003.
• Jones-Lee M, Loomes G. Valuation of Safety. In: Hensher, DA; Button, KJ, ed. Handbook of Transport and the Environment. New York: Elsevier, 2003, pp.451-462.
• Jones-Lee M. An Anomaly in the Valuation of Transport Safety. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2002, 1(1), 7-8.
• Bateman IJ, Carson RT, Day B, Hanemann N, Hett T, Hanley N, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G, Mourato S, Ozdemiroglu E. Economic Valuation with State-Preference Techniques: A Manual. Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Edward Elgar, 2002.
• Chilton S, Covey J, Hopkins L, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G, Pidgeon N, Spencer A. Public perceptions of risk and preference-based values of safety. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2002, 25(3), 211-232.
• Jones-Lee M. Valuing Safety in Road Project Appraisal. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2002, 1(3), 115-117.
• Jones-Lee M, Loomes G. Private Values and Public Policy. In: Weber, E; Baron, J; Loomes, G, ed. Conflict and Tradeoffs in Decision Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.205-230.
• Robinson A, Loomes G, Jones-Lee M. Visual analog scales, standard gambles, and relative risk aversion. Medical Decision Making 2001, 21(1), 17-27.
• Carthy T, Chilton S, Covey D, Hopkins L, Jones-Lee MW, Loomes G, Pidgeon N, Spencer A. On the contingent valuation of safety and the safety of contingent valuation: Part 2 - The CV/SG "chained" approach. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1998, 17(3), 187-213.
• Beattie J, Covey J, Dolan P, Hopkins L, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G, Pidgeon N, Robinson A, Spencer A. On the contingent valuation of safety and the safety of contingent valuation: Part I - Caveat investigator. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 1998, 17(1), 5-25.
• Dubourg WR, Jones-Lee MW, Loomes G. Imprecise preferences and survey design in contingent valuation. Economica 1997, 64(256), 681-702.
• Dolan P, Jones-Lee MW. The time trade-off: A note on the effect of lifetime reallocation of consumption and discounting. Journal of Health Economics 1997, 16(6), 731-739.
• Chilton S, Jones-Lee M, McDonald R, Metcalf H. Does the WTA/WTP Ratio Diminish as the Severity of a Health Complaint is Reduced? Testing for Smoothness of the Underlying Utility of Wealth Function. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2012, 45(1), 1-24.
• Baker R, Chilton S, Donaldson C, Jones-Lee M, Lancsar E, Mason H, Metcalf H, Pennington M, Wildman J. Searchers vs surveyors in estimating the monetary value of a QALY: resolving a nasty dilemma for NICE. Health Economics, Policy and Law 2011, 6(4), 435-447.
• Nielsen JS, Chilton S, Jones-Lee M, Metcalf H. How would you like your gain in Life Expectancy to be provided? An experimental approach. In: Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting. 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Nielsen JS, Chilton S, Jones-Lee M, Metcalf H. How would you like your gain in Life Expectancy to be provided?An experimental approach. In: Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory (FUR). 2010, Newcastle upon Tyne.
• Nielsen JS, Chilton S, Jones-Lee M, Metcalf H. How do you prefer your gain in life expectancy to be delivered? An experimental approach linking hypothetical and incentivised choices. In: Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economist. 2009, Amsterdam.
• Nielsen JS, Chilton S, Jones-Lee M, Metcalf H. How do you prefer your gain in life expectancy to be delivered? An experimental approach linking hypothetical and incentivised choices. In: Managing the Social Impacts of Change from a Risk Perspective SCARR. 2009, Bejing, China.