Welcome to my website! I am an Associate Professor (Reader) in Political Economy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) both in the Department of Social Policy and in the European Institute. At LSE, I collaborate with LSE Health and Social Care and the International Inequalities Institute as an associate. I am a fellow of the CESIfo Research Network and the HEDG .
My research has a strong empirical and policy focus, and, contributes to scientific debates at the borders of economics and other social sciences . The overarching theme in most of my research is the study of ‘health and social protection’. My current projects address at least one of the following issues (and contribute to the following ‘research fields’): the organisation of health and social care, the measurement and determinants of health disadvantage (‘health economics’ as in here), the design of social protection institutions (‘political economy’ as in here), and the social formation of preferences (‘social economics’ as in here).
My work can be found in some leading journals in economics (e.g., Journal of the European Economic Association, Economica, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty) and economic policy (e.g., , Economic Policy, Oxford Review of Economic Policy ) as well as in the main field journals in health economics (e.g., American Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics), health policy (e.g., Health Policy and Planning, Health policy, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law), and especially, in some of the main field-specific, interdisciplinary social science journals (e.g, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A, Public Choice, Economic Geography, Social Science and Medicine, Economics and Human Biology, Risk Analysis, Regional Studies, Urban Studies, Kyklos, Food Policy), including those specialising in social policy (e.g., Journal of Social Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Social Policy and Administration).
I have just finished editing (with Mario Macis) a book on ‘Social Economics‘ published by MIT Press which contains some examples of the most exciting developments in the area. Find below my latest accepted publications:
“Does the Expansion of Public Long-Term Care Funding Affect Savings Behaviour?” (with Cristina Vilaplana). Fiscal Studies, 2016, in press.
“Do you have to win it to fix it? A longitudinal study of lottery winners and their health care demand“ (with Terence Cheng and Nick Powdthavee). American Journal of Health Economics , 2016, in press .
“Careful in the Crisis? Determinants of Older People’s Informal Care Receipt in CrisisStruck European Countries” (with Martin Karlsson and Henning Øien). Health Economics, 2016,25, :25-42
“Globesity’? The Effects of Globalization on Obesity and Caloric Intake” (with Nuria Mas). Food Policy, 2016, 64: 121-132.
and my most recent working papers :
“The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter?” III Working Papers, 6. International Inequalities Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK, 2016 ( with Frank Cowell)
“Thinking of incentivizing care? The effect of demand subsidies on informal caregiving and intergenerational transfers” Barcelona GSE Working Paper, 929. Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Barcelona, 2016 (with Sergi Jimenez and Cristina Vilaplana).
“Cultural persistence of health capital: evidence from European migrants“. CESifo Working Paper, 5964. 2016, Center for Economic Studies, Munich, Germany, 2016 (with Azusa Sato).
“Does long-term care subsidisation reduce unnecessary hospitalisations?,”Economics Working Papers 1535, 2016, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (with Sergi Jimenez and Cristina Vilaplana).
“European Identity and Redistributive Preferences,” STICERD – Public Economics. Programme Discussion Papers 24, 2015, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (with Frank Cowell).
“Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence from English Adoptees,” CESifo Working Paper Series 5351, 2015, CESifo Group Munich (with Mireia Jofre and Julian LeGrand).
Contact:
Dr Joan Costa i Font,
Department of Social Policy,
(Room OLD.2.37)
Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE,
London, England, UK.
Tel: (+44) (0)2079556484
E-mail: J.costa-Font@lse.ac.uk
To follow me on twitter : @JoanCostaiFont
