Professor in Health Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Professor Joan Costa-Font (he/him) works at the LSE as a Professor of Health Economics, and he is a faculty associate of LSE Health where he leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL). He is affiliated with the two major global economics research networks, namely IZA, and CESifo. He is a highly cited policy-oriented empirical economist with extensive contributions to the field of health economics. Most of his research focuses on questions at the borders of health, behavioural and political economics, with a special focus on healthy ageing, behaviours (e.g., sleep, exercise, alcohol, smoking) and health disadvantage and inequality.
He has authored over 150 articles in leading academic journals across different fields including leading journals in health economics (e.g., Journal of Health Economics), behavioural economics (e.g., Journal of Risk and Uncertainty), and political economy (e.g., Journal of Comparative Economics), as well as in prominent journals in mainstream economics (e.g., Journal of the European Economic Association), and interdisciplinary science, policy and medicine (e.g., PNAS). He has authored and edited books for both Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. His recent titles include "The Political Economy of Health and Health Care: The Rise of the Patient Citizen” (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and "Behavioural Incentive Design for Health Policy: Steering for Health" (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Professor Costa-Font has helped edit several journals and currently serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Economics of Ageing and Section Editor for PLOS Aging and Health. He has completed numerous reports for several international organisations including the recent WHO Global Repot of LTC Financing, 2023