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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

  • Ageing, health, and health care

    Friedrich Breyer;Joan Costa-Font;Stefan Felder

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

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

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

    Panos Kanavos;Joan Costa-Font;Elizabeth Seeley

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

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

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

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

  • Pharmaceutical parallel trade in Europe: stakeholder and competition effects

    Panos Kanavos;Joan Costa-Font

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

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  • 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

  • COMPULSORY LANGUAGE EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND IDENTITY FORMATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Joan Costa-Font;Joan Gil

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

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

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

    Joan Costa-Font

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

    Joan Costa-Font;Christophe Courbage;Katherine Swartz

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

    Marta Vilella-Vila;Joan Costa-Font

  • Optimism and the perceptions of new risks

    Joan Costa‐Font;Elias Mossialos;Caroline Rudisill

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

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

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

    Joan Costa-Font;Marin Gemmill;Gloria Rubert

  • 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

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

    Joan Costa-Font;Núria Mas

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Alistair McGuire
Alistair McGuire London School of Economics and Political Science
Frank A. Cowell
Frank A. Cowell London School of Economics and Political Science
Elias Mossialos
Elias Mossialos London School of Economics and Political Science
Panos Kanavos
Panos Kanavos London School of Economics and Political Science
David McDaid
David McDaid London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard G. Frank
Richard G. Frank Harvard University
Hristos Doucouliagos
Hristos Doucouliagos Deakin University
Christopher L. Drake
Christopher L. Drake Henry Ford Health System
Daniel Freeman
Daniel Freeman University of Oxford
Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley King's College London

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