Joan Costa-i-Font is Professor of Health Economics, faculty associate of the International Inequalities Institute (III) and director of the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is a CESifo and IZA network research fellow and has been a Harkness fellow at Harvard University , visting professor at Sciences Po and a visiting fellow at Boston College, Oxford University and UCL. His research can be found in all the main field journals in health economics (e.g., Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, American Journal of Health Economics), behavioural economics (e.g., Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty), and general audience journals (Journal of the European Economic Association, Economica, Economic Policy) alongside journals in general science and social science (PNAS, Social Science and Medicine, Public Choice, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A).
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Health insurance expansion reduced height inequality in Europe
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- Health Economics
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Sleeping our way to being productive
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- Productivity and Innovation
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Housing in old age and the effect of a health shock
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- Health Economics
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Soviet communism and the strength of the family
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- Politics and economics
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Income windfalls and overweight
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- Health Economics