Expertise: Political Economy, Health Economics,Social Economics, Social Policy, Empirical Economics
Biography:Dr Joan Costa Font (Joan) is Reader ( 'Associate Professor' in the US) in Political Economy at LSE with the Department of Social Policy (the LSE's main 'applied social science' department).
Joan's research is primarily on political economy (or 'economic policy analysis') in the areas of health and social policy. The bulk of his current work falls in one of the following three projects: a) 'health care decentralization and public choice', b) 'health and long term care insurance design' and c) 'the social, cultural and life course determinants of health'. Ongoing contributions attempt to understand the influence of both social (non-monetary) incentives (culture, identity, status, self-image, altruism), and institutional arrangements accommodating preference heterogeneity (primarily the federalisation and financial reform of health systems) on health, insurance and redistribution. He has just finished editing a book "Federalism and Decentralization in European Health and Social Care" (with Greer, S) and is currently working toguether with different CEP and STICERD colleagues on the effects of life course events and policy reforms on wellbeing and health inequalities. In 2012/13 he will be a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University working on long term care insurance design.
Current Areas of Research:
Research Projects:
(a) Political Economy of Old Age and Long Term Care Financing,
(b) Political Economy of European Health Systems and Pharmaceuticals,
(c) Economic Theory of Social Motivation, Pro-social Behavior and Redistribution,
(d) Economics of Life-course Transmission of Inequalities and Lifestyles
Education:
- Marie Curie Postdoctoral Training Program, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- PhD Economics & MSc (Econ) International Health Policy (with Public Economics), LSE with distinction
- BA in Economics,Univeristy of Barcelona & BA in Law & BA in Political Science
Awards:
- Harkness Fellowship in Health Policy,2012
- Bayer Health Economics Award in 2003 and 2011
- Brian Abel Smith, Best MSc student Award, 2000
Affiliations/Professional activities with other institutions:
Selected Publications:
- "Anorexia, Body Image and Peer Effects: Evidence from a Sample of European Women" (with Jofre-Bonet, M). Economica, 2013, 44(317): 44-64
- "Family Ties and the Crowding Out of Long Term Care Insurance" Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2010, 26(4): 691-712.
- "Biases in the Health Care Luxury Good Hypothesis? A Meta-regression Analysis" (with M Gemmill-Toyama, M and G Rubert). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A, 2011, 174, 95-107.
CEP Publications:
- Not all Incentives Wash out the Warm Glow: The Case of Blood Donation Revisited
Joan Costa Font,
Mireia Jofre-Bonet,
Steven T. Yen,
July 2012
Paper No' CEPDP1157:
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- Anorexia, Body Image and Peer Effects: Evidence from a Sample of European Women
Joan Costa Font,
Mireia Jofre-Bonet,
November 2011
Paper No' CEPDP1098:
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- Social Identity and Redistributive
Preferences: A Survey
Joan Costa Font,
Frank A Cowell,
Paper No' PEP 15:
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