About
Joan is distinguished academic and policy-oriented economist with extensive contributions to the field of health economics. His research primarily focuses on questions at the borders of behavioural economics, and political economy, with a special focus on healthy ageing, health behaviours (e.g., sleep, overweight, smoking) and health inequality.
He has authored over 150 articles in leading academic journals across different fields including leading journals in health economics (e.g., Journal of Health Economics), behavioural economics (e.g., Journal of Risk and Uncertainty), and political economy (e.g., Journal of Comparative Economics), as well as in prominent journals in mainstream economics (e.g., Journal of the European Economic Association), and interdisciplinary science, policy and medicine (e.g., PNAS). He has authored and edited books for both Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. His recent titles include "The Political Economy of Health and Health Care: The Rise of the Patient Citizen” (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and "Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy: Steering for Health" (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Professor Costa-Font has helped edit several journals and currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Economics of Ageing and Section Editor for PLOS Aging and Health.
Joan supervises students on a range of topics, including:
- Healthy aging and later life effects of economic policies
- The Global financing and organisation of long-term care
- Health and well-being effects of caregiving arrangements
- The political and behavioural drivers of health inequality
- Incentives for healthy habits and healthy 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
Affiliate, Medication Outcomes Centre, University of California San Francisco
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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
Publications
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