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Joan Costa i Font's web page

Lecturer in European Social Policy

 
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street WC2A 2AE
Tel: +44 (0) 2079556484
Email: j.costa-font@lse.ac.uk

European Institute - Department of  Social Policy - LSE Health - CESifo

 

Joan's teaching and research is on (i) the political economy of the federalisation of Europe and its welfare states and (ii) the economic analysis of European social problems and policies

 

My current work addresses (i) the effects of devolution and federalism in European health systems and (ii) the influence of social and cultural incentives in explaining preferences for health, redistribution and insurance
 

     Positions:
 

     Research Interests:
 

     Political Economy, Economics of Social Policy (Health, Ageing)

    Research Projects:
         

         (A) Federalism and European Health Policy
 

  • Fiscal Federalism and Health System Productivity
  • Devolution and Welfare State Reform in Europe
  • Regulated Pharmaceuticals Arbitrage in Europe
 
        (B) Cultural Norms and Welfare Behaviour
 
  • Cultural Norms and Self-insurance at Old Age
  • Social Identity, Welfare State Attitudes and Inequality (with Frank Cowell)
  • Vertical Transmission of Lifestyles: a natural experiment (with Julian Le Grand and Mireia Jofre)
 

        News:
 

        Economics of the Mediterranean and the Euromediterranian Process See here

        CESifo Venice Summer Institute on Behavioural Welfare Economics  See here

        2010 LSE Summer School on "Health Policy, Management and Economics" See here

        Research 2008-10: 
      

 
Re-visiting the health care luxury good hypothesis: aggregation, precision, and publication biases? HEDG working paper, 09/02. Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG), 2009
 
Unveiling the Mechanisms of Vertical State Rescaling: Identity and/or the Economy
 
 
Tackling Neglect and Mental Health care Reform in a Devolved System of  Welfare  Governance            
                Journal of Social Policy, 2010.

                 Does Devolution lead to Regional Inequalities in Welfare Activity? Environment and Planning C, 2010

 

Devolution, Diversity and Welfare Reform: Long-Term Care in the Latin Rim. Social Policy and Administration,  2010.
 
                Decomposing cross-country differences in levels of obesity and overweight: does
                the social environment matter? (with Gil, J   and Fabbri, D) Social Science and Medicine, 2010.
              
                 Housing Assets and Housing Wealth Decisions in Old Age: Sale and Reversion
                 (with Oscar Mascarilla and Joan Gil). Housing Studies, in press 2010

 Exploring the pathways of inequality in health access and financing in decentralised Spain (with Joan Gil). Journal of European Social Policy, 2009, 19 (5), 446-458
 
 
                (with Panos Kanavos & Liz Sheeley).Economic Policy, 2008, 23(55): 497-538.
 
                (with Joan Gil). Economics and Human Biology, 2008, 6(1):1-18

 

Decomposing Body Mass Index Gaps Between Mediterranean Countries: A Counterfactual Quantile Regression Analysis (with Daniele Fabbri and Joan Gil). Economics and Human Biology, 2009, 7(3): 351-365.

 Ageing in Place'? An Examination of Elderly people housing preferences in Spain, (with Mascarilla and Elvira,D). Urban Studies, 2009, 46(2) 295-316.
 
Compulsory Language Educational Policies and Identity Formation (with Irma Clots Figueres, Aspachs, O., and Masella, P). Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(2-3): 434-444.