Joan Costa-i-Font

Joan Costa-i-Font (born 20 September 1974 in Barcelona) is an economist (FREcon) , specialised in Health economics. He has made important contributions to the behavioral economics and the political economy of health and ageing. His work examines the origins and economic consequences of health and economic disadvantage, especially at old age.

Biography

He is a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL). Previously, he has been Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, Policy Evaluation Fellow at Sciences Po and a Visiting Research Scholar at the Centre for Health and Wellbeing Princeton University Department of Economics, and a Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona. He has held research appointments at UCL-Paris Dauphine, Oxford University, and Boston College

Publications He has published over 100 research articles in peer reviewed journals. Professor Costa-Font has written or edited the following books: Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics. Insights from Responses to COVID-19 with Matteo M. Galizzi, Cambridge University Press, 2024, Cambridge UK. Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy: Steering for Health with Rudisill, C and Hockley, T, Cambridge University Press, 2023, Cambridge UK. The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare: The Rise of the Patient Citizen with Turati, G and Batinti, A, 2020 Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems with Turati, G and Batinti, A, 2023 Social economics: current and emerging avenues, with Macis, M. The MIT Press, Cambridge. Federalism and decentralization in European health and social care, with Scott Greer. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. The LSE companion to health policy, with Alistair McGuire. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. Financing long-term care in Europe: institutions, markets and models, with Courbage, C. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. The Economics of New Health Technologies (2010), with Alistair McGuire and Christophe Courbage. Oxford University Press Reforming Long-term Care in Europe (2011). [Wiley]