Joan Costa-Font is a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). During the 2024/25 academic year, he is on sabbatical as a visiting research scholar at Princeton University. He has previously been a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at Boston College, Oxford University, Sciences Po, and UCL. He has also taught at Paris Dauphine University, the University of Barcelona, and the Università Cattolica. Alongside his affiliation with IZA, he collaborates with CESifo as a research fellow.

His research primarily focuses on two key areas: (i) healthy aging and caregiving, and (ii) the economic determinants and consequences of health disadvantage, broadly defined. This includes exploring behavioral incentives for health, institutional constraints on health care, inequality, and household behavior. 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 in mainstream 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.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17490
forthcoming in: Health Economics, 2024.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15961
published as 'Trusting the Health System and COVID 19 Restriction Compliance' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101235
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15741
Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche, Ricardo Pagan
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 93, 102840
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14570
Joan Costa-Font, Sarah Flèche, Ricardo Pagan
published in: Economica, 2024, 91 (362), 547 - 568
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13903
published as 'Income Windfalls and Overweight Evidence from Lottery Wins' in: Empirical Economics, 2023, 64, 2005–2026
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13850
published in: Kyklos, 2023, 76 (4), 526-612
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12987
published in: PLoS ONE, 2019, 13 (9), e0202290
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11774
revised version published as 'Do Public Caregiving Subsidies and Supports affect the Provision of Care and Transfers?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84,102639
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11755
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 69, 1022589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11702
Joan Costa-Font, Belen Saenz de Miera Juarez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11259
revised version published as 'The 'mighty girl' effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender norms?' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 24 - 46
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11180
published as 'Does Devolution Influence the Choice and Quality of Public (vs Private) Health Care?' in: Journal of Economic Behaviour & Organisation, 2022, 202, 632-653
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