Joan Costa-i-Font explained

Joan Costa-i-Font
Birth Date:	1974 9, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Barcelona
Nationality:	British, Spanish
Institution:	London School of Economics and Political Science
Field:	Health economics, Political Economy, Behavioural Economics
Repec Prefix:	e
Repec Id:	pco20

Joan Costa-i-Font (born 20 September 1974 in Barcelona) is a Spanish-British economist, 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.^[1]

Biography

He is a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he leads the Ageing and Health Incetives Lab (AHIL). Previously, he has been Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and a Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona. He has held research appointments at UCL, Oxford University, Sciences Po, Paris Dauphine and Boston College.^[2]

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 Systemswith 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^[3]
• Reforming Long-term Care in Europe (2011). [Wiley]^[4]

External links

• Joan Costa-i-Font's CV at LSE
• LSE Staff Profile

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dr Joan Costa-i-Font. 2018-12-15.
2. Web site: Dr Joan Costa-Font . 2018-12-16 . 2018-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181216163522/http://www.lse.ac.uk/health-policy/people/professor-joan-costa-font . dead .
3. Book: The Economics of New Health Technologies: Incentives, organization, and financing. 978-0-19-955068-5. 28 August 2009. Oxford University Press.
4. Web site: Wiley-VCH - Shop.