Joan Costa-i-Font

Joan Costa-i-Font is a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He coordinates the Ageing@LSE group and serves as a faculty associate of LSE Health and the International Inequalities Institute. He leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL) and co-leads the perceptions of inequality program.

• Professor of Health Economics, LSE
• Faculty Associate, LSE Health
• Faculty Associate, International Inequalities Institute
• CESifo and IZA Network Research Fellow
• Former Visiting Scholar at Princeton University

His research spans healthy ageing, health economics, behavioral economics, political economy, and economic history. Key themes include health inequality, insurance policy, informal care economics, and productivity analysis. His work appears in journals such as the Journal of the European Economic Association, PNAS, and interdisciplinary publications in science and medicine.

Recent publications address health insurance impacts on height inequality, long-term care financing, daylight saving time policy, and informal caregiving economics. These studies intersect health economics with broader economic development and policy frameworks.

Scientific Awards:

• CESifo Network Research Fellow
• IZA Network Research Fellow
• Harkness Fellow at Harvard University
• Policy Evaluation Fellow at Sciences Po

He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Boston College, Oxford University, and UCL. His academic output includes books published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and MIT Press.