Joan Costa-Font is a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has been a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting fellow at Boston College, Oxford University, Sciences Po, and UCL, and has taught at Paris Dauphine University, the University of Barcelona, and Universita Cattolica. In addition to IZA, he collaborates with CESifo as a research fellow.

The core of his research concentrates on examining (i) healthy ageing and caregiving and (ii) the economic origins and consequences of health disadvantage (broadly understood), including behavioural incentives for and institutional constraints on health, health care, inequality, and household behaviour. Most of his research can be regularly found in all the main field journals in health economics (e.g., Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics), behavioural economics (e.g., Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty), as well as journals in economics (e.g., Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Review, Economica), and interdisciplinary sciences (e.g., Social Science and Medicine, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, PNAS).

Joan has earned three undergraduate degrees (BSc, Licenciado) in economics, law, and political science (Barcelona), both an MA in Economics (UPF) and an MSc (Econ) in International Health Policy (LSE, with distinction & best student prize, 2000), as well as a Ph.D. in Economics (UB), followed by a Marie Curie Post-doctoral Fellowship (LSE).

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