2026 Joan Costa-Font: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	49	1462	1304	161	146	368	7296

Joan Costa-Font publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan Costa-Font sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 521+

This scientist: 368 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Joan Costa-Font D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joan Costa-Font sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 101+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Overview

Joan Costa-Font is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several dimensions of social sciences with a focus on health-related topics.

Their main fields of study include:

Social Sciences

Within this broad field, their work covers several subfields of study such as:

General Health Professions
Sociology and Political Science
Economics and Econometrics
Health
Demography

The topics frequently addressed in their research encompass:

Global Health Care Issues
Healthcare Policy and Management
Health disparities and outcomes
Social Policy and Reform Studies
Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
Employment and Welfare Studies
Healthcare Systems and Reforms

Joan Costa-Font has published extensively in various venues, including:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Economics & Human Biology
Health Economics
AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

Their most recent published papers include:

Fatal Underfunding? Explaining COVID-19 Mortality in Spanish Nursing Homes, 2021, Journal of Aging and Health
'Erring on the side of rare events'? A behavioural explanation for COVID-19 vaccine regulatory misalignment, 2021, Journal of Global Health
'More than one red herring'? Heterogeneous effects of ageing on health care utilisation, 2020, Health Economics
'Relative Consent' or 'Presumed Consent'? Organ donation attitudes and behaviour, 2020, The European Journal of Health Economics
The labour market returns to sleep, 2023, Journal of Health Economics

Their collaborative research is marked by frequent co-authors such as:

Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
Alberto Batinti
Gilberto Turati
Frank Cowell
Anna Nicińska

Joan Costa-Font has also contributed to book publications with titles including:

The political economy of health and healthcare. The rise of the patient citizen (2020), published by IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy (2023), published by Cambridge University Press
The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare: The Rise of the Patient Citizen (2020), published by London School of Economics and Political Science

Best Publications

Future long-term care expenditure in Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom

Adelina Comas-Herrera;Raphael Wittenberg;Joan Costa-Font;Cristiano Gori

250
Citations
Ageing, health, and health care

Friedrich Breyer;Joan Costa-Font;Stefan Felder

229
Citations
`Ageing in Place'? Exploring Elderly People's Housing Preferences in Spain:

Joan Costa-Font;David Elvira;Oscar Mascarilla-Miró

203
Citations
Competition in off‐Patent Drug Markets: Issues, Regulation and Evidence

Panos Kanavos;Joan Costa-Font;Elizabeth Seeley

191
Citations
Public health expenditure and spatial interactions in a decentralized national health system.

Joan Costa-Font;Joan Costa-Font;Jordi Pons-Novell

190
Citations
Diversity and regional inequalities in the Spanish 'system of health care services'.

Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas;Joan Costa-Font;Joan Costa-Font;Ivan Planas

172
Citations
Pharmaceutical parallel trade in Europe: stakeholder and competition effects

Panos Kanavos;Joan Costa-Font

144
Citations
Demand for private health insurance: how important is the quality gap?

Unknown

131
Citations
Modelling an entitlement to long-term care services for older people in Europe: projections for long-term care expenditure to 2050:

Linda Pickard;Adelina Comas-Herrera;Joan Costa-Font;Cristiano Gori

127
Citations
COMPULSORY LANGUAGE EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND IDENTITY FORMATION

Oriol Aspachs-Bracons;Irma Clots-Figueras;Joan Costa-Font;Paolo Masella

126
Citations
Are perceptions of ‘risks’ and ‘benefits’ of genetically modified food (in)dependent?

Joan Costa-Font;Joan Costa-Font;Elias Mossialos

121
Citations
Measuring inequalities in health: What do we know? What do we need to know?

Joan Costa-Font;Cristina Hernández-Quevedo;Cristina Hernández-Quevedo

120
Citations
Obesity and the incidence of chronic diseases in Spain: a seemingly unrelated probit approach.

Joan Costa-Font;Joan Gil

120
Citations
What lies behind socio-economic inequalities in obesity in Spain: a decomposition approach

Joan Costa-Font;Joan Costa-Font;Joan Gil

119
Citations
Family ties and the crowding out of long-term care insurance

Joan Costa-Font

108
Citations
Financing Long‐Term Care: Ex Ante, Ex Post or Both?

Joan Costa-Font;Christophe Courbage;Katherine Swartz

107
Citations
Press media reporting effects on risk perceptions and attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) food

Marta Vilella-Vila;Joan Costa-Font

94
Citations
Optimism and the perceptions of new risks

Joan Costa‐Font;Elias Mossialos;Caroline Rudisill

93
Citations
Does long-term care subsidization reduce hospital admissions and utilization?

Joan Costa-Font;Sergi Jimenez-Martin;Cristina Vilaplana

92
Citations
Biases in the healthcare luxury good hypothesis?: a meta-regression analysis

Joan Costa-Font;Marin Gemmill;Gloria Rubert

88
Citations
Attitudes as an Expression of Knowledge and “Political Anchoring”: The Case of Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom

Joan Costa-Font;Caroline Rudisill;Elias Mossialos

83
Citations
'Globesity'? the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake

Joan Costa-Font;Núria Mas

83
Citations
Not all incentives wash out the warm glow: The case of blood donation revisited

Joan Costa-Font;Mireia Jofre-Bonet;Steven T. Yen

76
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank A. Cowell London School of Economics and Political Science

Elias Mossialos London School of Economics and Political Science

Alistair McGuire London School of Economics and Political Science

Panos Kanavos London School of Economics and Political Science

Scott L. Greer University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

David McDaid London School of Economics and Political Science

Richard G. Frank Harvard University

Raphael Wittenberg London School of Economics and Political Science

Julian Le Grand London School of Economics and Political Science

Hristos Doucouliagos Deakin University

External Links

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