Joan Costa-i-Font

Joan Costa-Font (he/him) works as a Professor of Health Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where he is one of the coordinators of the Ageing@LSE group. He is a faculty associate of LSE Health and the International Inequalities Institute, where he leads the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL) and co-leads the perceptions of inequality program respectively. He is a CESifo and IZA network research fellow and has been a Harkness fellow at Harvard University, Visiting Scholar at Princeton University, Policy Evaluation Fellow at Sciences Po and a visiting professor at Columbia University, Boston College, Oxford University and UCL. The core of his research primarily focuses on healthy ageing and his work is widely published across key journals in health economics, behavioral economics, and political economy, as well as in prominent mainstream economics journals (e.g., Journal of the European Economic Association) and interdisciplinary publications in science and medicine (e.g., PNAS). He has authored and edited books for both Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, MIT Press and EE among other publishers.