Joan Costa-Font is a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he coordinates the Aging@LSE and the Perceptions of Inequality program and leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL). His research primarily focuses on healthy ageing and inequality broadly defined. He is interested in empirical and policy questions at the borders of health economics, behavioural economics, and public economics (inequality and political economy). Most of his contributions can be regularly found in all the main field journals in health economics (e.g., Journal of Health Economics), behavioural economics (e.g., Journal of Risk and Uncertainty), inequality (e.g., Journal of Economic Inequality), political economy (e.g., Journal of Comparative Economics), as well as in mainstream journals in economics (e.g., Journal of the European Economic Association), and interdisciplinary science (e.g., PNAS). He has helped edit several journals on behavioural economics, public policy, and applied economics and currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Economics of Ageing.

He has earned three undergraduate degrees in different social sciences (BSc, Licenciado in economics, law, and political science & sociology), holds an MA in Economics (UPF), an MPhil in International Economic Law (UB), and an MSc (Econ) in International Health Policy (LSE, with distinction & best student prize), alongside a PhD in Economics (UB), and was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (LSE). He has been a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and a long-standing Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University, Oxford University, and Sciences Po. He has also held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Boston College, UCL, Paris Dauphine University, and has taught at Università Cattolica and the University of Barcelona. Alongside his affiliation with IZA, he collaborates with CESifo as a network research fellow.

Joan Costa-Font joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2017.