About
Professor Joan Costa-Font (he/him, FREcon) is a professor of health economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where his work focuses on healthy ageing, health behaviour, inequality, and the political economy of health. He leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL) and co-leads both the Perceptions of Inequality programme at the International Inequalities Institute and Ageing@LSE. He also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of the Economics of Ageing, among other journals.
Throughout his career, he has held prestigious fellowships (Harkness Fellow) and visiting positions at institutions including Harvard University, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Sciences Po. His recent policy and business engagement includes serving on the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Economics for Environment, Climate Change and Health, as well as leading the LSE–Vitality programme on behavioural incentives for long-term health.
He has published widely in top general-interest and specialist journals—such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, and PNAS—and has authored several books on health policy and behavioural incentives for Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.
PhD Supervision Areas:
- Healthy ageing and the later-life effects of economic policies
- Global financing and organisation of long-term care
- Political, economic and behavioural drivers of health inequality
- Incentives for and constraints on healthy habits and time use
Teaching
Coordinator of the LSE Health Policy -Tsinghua University program
HP429 Behavioral Incentives in Health and Health Care
HP433 Health Care Regulation
HP4D6E Behavioural Insights for Health Incentive Design
HP500 Advanced Health Policy and Economics
Affiliations
Fellow, CESifo Munich
Fellow, IZA Bonn
Fellow Global Labour Organisation
Follow me
Bluesky: @jcosta-font.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/jcosta-font.bsky.social)
Expertise
Ageing, Long Term Care, Behavioural Incentives, Health Inequality, Health Behaviours, Overweight, Sleep, Nutrition, Smoking, Alcohol, Institutional Reforms and Health Disadvantage, Family Health Behaviours, Gender and Health