Costa-i-Font, Joan

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  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna (2026). Long-lasting health effects of Soviet education. Economica, 93(370), 611 - 647. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.70030
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Frank, Richard, Raut, Nilesh (2026). The effects of wealth shocks on public and private long-term care insurance. Journal of Health Economics, 106, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2025.103086 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna, Rosello-Roig, Melcior (2026). The effects on inequality and mobility of exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe. Journal of Comparative Economics, 54(1), 40-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2025.07.012
  • Wang, Wanying, Costa-Font, Joan (2026). Unequal care, unequal health care? Gender differences in health care use after adult care access. Social Science & Medicine, 389, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118833 picture_as_pdf
  • Antonini, Marcello, Costa-Font, Joan (2025). Healthy self-interest? Health dependent preferences for fairer health care. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 240, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2025.107337 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Salmasi, Luca, Zaccagni, Sarah (2025). More than a ban on smoking? Behavioural spillovers of smoking bans in the workplace. Economics and Human Biology, 58, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2025.101512 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2025). Specific egalitarianism? Inequality aversion across domains. Journal of Economic Inequality, 23(3), 749 – 775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-025-09703-7 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rodriguez-Monguio, Rosa (2025). Advancing healthcare decision-making for the common good: a tribute to Professor Rovira Forns. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 20(3), 225 - 232. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133125100194 picture_as_pdf
  • Rudisill, Caroline, Linvill, Katie, Chupak, Anna, Costa-Font, Joan, Harrison, Sayward, Hung, Peiyin, Li, Xiaoming (2025). Trust or money? Barriers to health and healthcare behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 20(9). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331600 picture_as_pdf
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan, Shandar, Vasuprada (2025). The survival of the royals. KYKLOS, https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.70010 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna, Rosello-Roig, Melcior (2025). Equal before luck? Well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition. Social Science & Medicine, 376, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117975 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Miler-Raicu, Georgiana, Arbelo, Elena, Casado-Arroyo, Ruben, Sami, Aya, Wei Seong Tee, Eric, Hazel, Joseph, Roten, Laurent, Reichlin, Tobias & Burri, Haran et al (2025). Behavioural insights in the underuse of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in heart failure: a pilot survey on incentive perceptions among referring cardiologists. Health Economics Review, 15, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-025-00657-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Raut, Nilesh (2025). Long-term care partnership effects on Medicaid and private insurance. Health Economics, 34(6), 1171 - 1187. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4949 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2025). The hidden value of adult informal care in Europe. Health Economics, 34(4), 791 - 812. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4928 picture_as_pdf
  • Conolly, Georgina, Costa-Font, Joan, Srivastava, Divya (2025). Did COVID-19 reduce the digital divide? A systematic review. Health Policy and Technology, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2025.100979 picture_as_pdf
  • Fabiani, Beatrice, Costa-Font, Joan, Aranco, Natalia, Stampini, Marco, Ibarrarán, Pablo (2025). Funding options for long-term care services in Latin America and the Caribbean. Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 30, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2025.100550 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Sato, Azusa (2025). Cultural persistence and the ‘herbal medicine paradox’ evidence from European data. Journal of Health Psychology, 30(2), 171 - 185. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053241237031 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Sato, Azusa, Sanz de Miera, Belen (2025). Cultural persistence of self-assessed health: a study of first- and second-generation migrants. Journal of Migration and Health, 11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2024.100280 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2025). An unconsidered leave? Inequality aversion and the Brexit referendum. European Journal of Political Economy, 86, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2025.102648 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Docrat, Fatima (2024). Discrimination backfires? Minority ethnic disparities in vaccine hesitancy. Economics and Human Biology, 55, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101441 picture_as_pdf
  • Chupak, Anna L., Rudisill, Caroline, Harrison, Sayward, Linvill, Katie, Costa-Font, Joan, Hung, Peiyin, Li, Xiaoming (2024). Impact of perceived neighborhood social cohesion on vaccination intentions in the post-pandemic era. Preventive Medicine, 189, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2024.108158 picture_as_pdf
  • Baten, Jörg, Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan, Radatz, Laura (2024). Health insurance and height inequality: evidence from European Health Insurance Expansions. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101905 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Fleche, Sarah, Pagan, Ricardo (2024). The welfare effects of time reallocation: evidence from Daylight Saving Time. Economica, 91(362), 547 - 568. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12510 picture_as_pdf
  • Carter, Alexander W., Jayawardana, Sahan, Costa-Font, Joan, Nasir, Khurram, Krumholz, Harlan M., Mossialos, Elias (2024). How to use quasi-experimental methods in cardiovascular research: a review of current practice. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.123.010078
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank, Shi, Xuezhu (2024). Health inequality and health insurance coverage: the United States and China compared. Economics and Human Biology, 52, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101346 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, García Hombrados, Jorge, Nicińska, Anna (2024). Long-lasting effects of indoctrination in school: evidence from the People's Republic of Poland. European Economic Review, 161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104641 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Fleche, Sarah, Pagan, Ricardo (2024). The labour market returns to sleep. Journal of Health Economics, 93, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2023.102840 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Knust, Niklas (2023). Does exposure to democracy decrease health inequality? Journal of Public Policy, 43(4), 741 - 760. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X23000211 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna (2023). Comrades in the family? Soviet communism and demand for family insurance. KYKLOS, 76(4), 526-612. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12342 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, D'Amico, Francesco, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2023). Caring for carers? The effect of public subsidies on the wellbeing of unpaid carers. American Journal of Health Economics, 9(4), 487 - 522. https://doi.org/10.1086/723539 picture_as_pdf
  • Rapp, Thomas, Jena, Anupam B., Costa-Font, Joan, Grawoski, David C. (2023). Caregiving across generations: do older adults with more grandchildren get another bite at the “sandwich” generation? Social Science & Medicine, 334, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116199 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2023). Caregiving subsidies and spousal early retirement intentions. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 22(4), 550 - 589. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474747222000142 picture_as_pdf
  • Asaria, Miqdad, Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2023). How does exposure to COVID-19 influence health and income inequality aversion? Social Choice and Welfare, 61(3), 625 - 647. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-023-01460-8 picture_as_pdf
  • Raut, Nilesh, Costa-Font, Joan, Van-Houtven, Courtney (2023). Medicaid expansion and the mental health of spousal caregivers. Review of Economics of the Household, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-023-09673-7 picture_as_pdf
  • Angelini, Viola, Costa-Font, Joan (2023). Health and wellbeing spillovers of a partner’s cancer diagnosis. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 212, 422 - 437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2023.06.001 picture_as_pdf
  • Celidoni, Martina, Costa-Font, Joan, Salmasi, Luca (2023). Mobility restrictions and alcohol use during lockdown: "a still and dry pandemic for the many"? Economics and Human Biology, 50, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101268 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Harrison, S., Rudisill, C., Salmasi, L. (2023). The social value of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: willingness to pay estimates from four Western countries. Health Economics, 32(8), 1818 - 1835. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4690 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Knapp, Martin, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2023). The ‘welcomed lockdown’ hypothesis? Mental wellbeing and mobility restrictions. European Journal of Health Economics, 24(5), 679-699. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-022-01490-6 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-font, Joan (2023). How to support adult caregivers? IZA World of Labor, https://doi.org/10.15185/izawol.510 picture_as_pdf
  • Borrell Porta, Mireia, Contreras Silva, Valentina, Costa-Font, Joan (2023). Is employment during motherhood a ‘value changing experience’? Advances in Life Course Research, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2023.100528 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Powdthavee, Nattavudh (2023). Does money strengthen our social ties? Longitudinal evidence of lottery winners. Rationality and Society, 35(2), 139 - 166. https://doi.org/10.1177/10434631231159567 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Györi, Mario (2023). Income windfalls and overweight: evidence from lottery wins. Empirical Economics, 64(5), 2005–2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02312-7 picture_as_pdf
  • Cirkovic, Stevan, Wilkinson, Jack, Lensen, Sarah, Jackson, Emily, Harper, Joyce, Lindemann, Katy, Costa-Font, Joan (2023). Is the use of IVF add-on treatments driven by patients or clinics? Findings from a UK patient survey. Human Fertility, 26(2), 365 - 372. https://doi.org/10.1080/14647273.2023.2197628 picture_as_pdf
  • Angelici, Marta, Berta, Paolo, Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (2023). Divided we survive? Multi-level governance during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and Spain. Publius: the Journal of Federalism, 53(2), 227 - 250. https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjad002 picture_as_pdf
  • Pozo, Macarena, Milà-Guascha, Maria, Haddad-Tóvollia, Roberta, Boudjadja, Mehdi, Chivitea, Iñigo, Toledo, Miriam, Gómez-Valadésa, Alicia G., Eyre, Elena, Ramíreza, Sara & Obria, Arnaud et al (2023). Negative energy balance hinders prosocial helping behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(15). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2218142120 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2023). Trusting the health system and COVID 19 restriction compliance. Economics and Human Biology, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2023.101235 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Garcia Hombrados, Jorge, Nicińska, Anna (2023). The institutional origins of vaccines distrust: evidence from former-Soviet countries. PLOS ONE, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282420 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Ljunge, Martin (2023). Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s presidential election. European Journal of Political Economy, 76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2022.102231 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2023). Investing in care for old age? An examination of long-term care expenditure dynamics and its spillovers. Empirical Economics, 64(1), 1 - 30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-022-02246-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2022). Biased survival expectations and behaviours: does domain specific information matter? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 65(3), 285 - 317. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11166-022-09382-z picture_as_pdf
  • Bonsang, Eric, Costa-Font, Joan (2022). Buying control? ‘Locus of control’ and the uptake of supplementary health insurance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 204, 476 - 489. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.035 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana, Cristina (2022). Health shocks and housing downsizing: how persistent is ‘ageing in place’? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 204, 490 - 508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.10.039 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2022). Incentivizing sleep? Insufficient sleep affects employment and productivity. IZA World of Labor, 1 - 9.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana, Cristina (2022). Risky restrictions? Mobility restriction effects on risk awareness and anxiety. Health Policy, 126(11), 1090 - 1102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2022.08.009 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada (2022). Does devolution influence the choice and quality of public (vs private) health care? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 202, 632 - 653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.08.022 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2022). Mental health effects of caregivers respite: subsidies or supports? Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 23, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2022.100398 picture_as_pdf
  • Celidoni, Martina, Costa-Font, Joan, Salmasi, Luca (2022). Too healthy to fall sick? Longevity expectations and protective health behaviours during the first wave of COVID-19. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 202, 733 - 745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.08.015 picture_as_pdf
  • Yee Liang Hing, Nicholas, Liang Woon, Yuan, Kong Lee, Yew, Joon Kim, Hyung, Lothfi, Nurhyikmah M., Wong, Elizabeth, Perialathan, Komathi, Haryati Ahmad Sanusi, Nor, Isa, Affendi & Tho Leong, Chin et al (2022). When do persuasive messages on vaccine safety steer COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and recommendations? Behavioural insights from a randomised controlled experiment in Malaysia. BMJ Global Health, 7(7). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009250 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jimenez-Martin, Sergi, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2022). Do public caregiving subsidies and supports affect the provision of care and transfers? Journal of Health Economics, 84, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2022.102639 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Parmar, Divya (2022). Does local democracy improve public health interventions? Evidence from India. Governance, 35(3), 799-825. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12606 picture_as_pdf
  • Baranowska-Rataj, Anna, Barclay, Kieron, Costa-Font, Joan, Myrskylä, Mikko, Özcan, Berkay (2022). Preterm birth and educational disadvantage: heterogeneous effects. Population Studies, 77(3), 459-474. https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2022.2080247 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2022). The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter? Journal of Economic Inequality, 20(2), 299 - 325. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-021-09497-4 picture_as_pdf
  • Pagan, Ricardo, Costa-Font, Joan (2022). A longitudinal analysis of the effects of disability on sleep satisfaction and sleep duration in Germany. Current Psychology, 41(5), 2697 – 2710. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-020-00790-5
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan (2022). Does democracy make taller men? Cross-country European evidence. Economics and Human Biology, 45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101117 picture_as_pdf
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan, J. Hatton, Timothy (2022). Voting up? The effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature. Economica, 89(353), 161 - 190. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12393 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jimenez-Marin, Sergi, Viola, Analía (2021). Fatal underfunding? Explaining COVID-19 mortality in Spanish nursing homes. Journal of Aging and Health, 33(7-8), 607 - 617. https://doi.org/10.1177/08982643211003794 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, F, Saenz De Miera Juarez, Belen (2021). Measuring pure health inequality and mobility during a health insurance expansion: evidence from Mexico. Health Economics, 30(8), 1833 - 1848. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4271 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Asaria, Miqdad, Mossialos, Elias (2021). Erring on the side of rare events? A behavioural explanation for COVID-19 vaccine regulatory misalignment. Journal of Global Health, 11, 1 - 4. https://doi.org/10.7189/JOGH.11.03080 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-font, Joan, Machado, Sara (2021). How can policy interventions encourage pro-social behaviours in the health system? LSE Public Policy Review, 1(3). https://doi.org/10.31389/lseppr.17 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline, Salcher-Konrad, Maximilian (2021). 'Relative consent' or 'presumed consent'? Organ donation attitudes and behaviour. European Journal of Health Economics, 22(1), 5 - 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-020-01214-8 picture_as_pdf
  • Pega, Frank, Momen, Natalie C., Agyemang, Samuel A., Bojke, Laura, Costa-Font, Joan, de Preux, Laure, Fenichel, Eli P., Gordon, Bruce, Hensher, Martin C. & Johnston, Richard et al (2021). Valuing reductions in the risk of death in benefit–cost analyses of environment- and climate-health actions. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, [In Press]
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Zigante, Valentina (2020). Building ‘implicit partnerships’? Financial long-term care entitlements in Europe. Policy Sciences, 53(4), 697 - 712. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-020-09403-1 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2020). Is the intergenerational transmission of overweight 'gender assortative'? Economics and Human Biology, 39, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2020.100907 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia, Le Grand, Julian (2020). Vertical transmission of overweight: evidence from a sample of English adoptees. Food Policy, 97, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101972 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Györi, Mario (2020). The weight of patriarchy? Gender obesity gaps in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Social Science and Medicine, 266, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113353 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Levaggi, Rosella (2020). Innovation, aging, and health care unraveling “silver” from “red” herrings? Health Economics (United Kingdom), 29(S1), 3 - 7. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4187
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2020). More than one red herring? Heterogeneous effects of ageing on healthcare utilisation. Health Economics, 29(S1), 8 - 29. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4035 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Levaggi, Rosella, Turati, Gilberto (2020). Resilient managed competition during pandemics: lessons from the Italian experience during COVID-19. Health Economics, Policy and Law, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133120000353 picture_as_pdf
  • Akaichi, Faical, Costa-Font, Joan, Frank, Richard (2020). Uninsured by choice? A choice experiment on long term care insurance. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 173, 422 - 434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.07.012 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Fleche, Sarah (2020). Child sleep and mother labour market outcomes. Journal of Health Economics, 69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102258 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Kossarova, Lucia (2019). Transitions that matter? Czechoslovakia’s break up and human stature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16245050 picture_as_pdf
  • Bonsang, Eric, Costa-Font, Joan (2019). Behavioral regularities in old age planning. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 173, 297-300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2019.11.015
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Perdikis, Laurie (2019). Policy interdependence and the models of health care devolution: “systems or federacies”? Regional Science Policy & Practice, https://doi.org/10.1111/rsp3.12255 picture_as_pdf
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan (2019). Do economic recessions ‘squeeze the middle-class’? Economics and Politics, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12145 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2019). Incorporating inequality aversion in health-care priority setting. Social Justice Research, 32(2), 172-185. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-019-00328-6 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Frank, Richard B., Swartz, Katherine (2019). Access to long term care after a wealth shock: evidence from the housing bubble and burst. Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 13, 103-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2018.07.001
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe, Wagner, Joël (2019). Long-term care insurance research and trajectory. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 44(2), 179-182. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-019-00122-0
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2019). The rolling out and back of universal long-term-care supports in Europe. Generations, 43(1), 40-45. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2019). Federalism and Decentralisation in Health Care: A Decision Space Approach: a decision space approach, edited by Gregory P. Marchildon and Thomas J. Bossert. Publius: the Journal of Federalism, 49(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/publius/pjz004
  • Espie, Colin A., Emsley, Richard, Kyle, Simon D., Gordon, Christopher, Drake, Christopher L., Siriwardena, A. Niroshan, Cape, John, Ong, Jason C., Sheaves, Bryony & Foster, Russell et al (2019). Effect of digital cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia on health, psychological well-being, and sleep-related quality of life: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA Psychiatry, 76(1), 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2018.2745
  • Borrell-Porta, Mireia, Costa-Font, Joan, Philipp, Julia (2019). The 'mighty girl' effect: does parenting daughters alter attitudes towards gender norms? Oxford Economic Papers, 71(1), 25 - 46. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpy063
  • Bergquist, Savannah, Costa-Font, Joan, Swartz, Katherine (2018). Long-term care partnerships: are they fit for purpose? Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 12, 151-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeoa.2018.03.006
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Giuliano, Paola, Özcan, Berkay (2018). The cultural origin of saving behavior. PLOS ONE, 13(9), e0202290. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202290
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, Sato, Azusa (2018). A health 'Kuznets' curve'? Cross-section and longitudinal evidence on concentration indices. Social Indicators Research, 136(2), 439-452. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1558-8
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Ljunge, Martin (2018). The ‘healthy worker effect’: do healthy people climb the occupational ladder? Economics and Human Biology, 28, 119-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2017.12.007
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi, Vilaplana, Cristina (2018). Does long-term care subsidization reduce hospital admissions and utilization? Journal of Health Economics, 58, 43-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.01.002
  • Cheng, Terence C., Costa-i-Font, Joan, Powdthavee, Nattavudh (2018). Do you have to win it to fix it? A longitudinal studyof lottery winners and their health care demand. American Journal of Health Economics, 4(1), 26-50. https://doi.org/10.1162/ajhe_a_00092
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (2018). Regional health care decentralization in unitary states: equal spending, equal satisfaction? Regional Studies, 52(7), 974-985. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2017.1361527
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2017). "Institutionalization aversion” and the willingness to pay for home health care. Journal of Housing Economics, 38, 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhe.2017.10.001
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2017). Does the expansion of public long-term care funding affect savings behaviour? Fiscal Studies, 38(3), 417-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5890.2017.12139
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Norton, Edward C., Siciliani, Luigi (2017). The challenges of public financing and organisation of long-term care. Fiscal Studies, 38(3), 365-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5890.2017.12142 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2017). The National Health Service at a critical moment: when Brexit means hectic. Journal of Social Policy, 46(4), 783-795. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279417000344
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Sato, Azusa, Rovira-Forns, Joan (2017). Identifying health system value dimensions: more than health gain? Health Economics, Policy and Law, 12(3), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133117000032
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe, Zweifel, Peter (2017). Policy dilemmas in financing long-term care in Europe. Global Policy, 8(S2), 38-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12213
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2016). Book review: The conquest of health: mortality and modernisation in contemporary Spain (In Spanish: La conquista de la salud. Mortalidad y modernización en la España contemporánea), V. Pérez Moreda, D.-S. Reher, A. Sanz- Gimeno (2015). Economics and Human Biology, 23, 134-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2016.08.002
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Karlsson, Martin, Øien, Henning (2016). Careful in the crisis? Determinants of older people's informal care receipt in crisis-struck European countries. Health Economics, 25(S2), 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3385
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Mas, Núria (2016). 'Globesity'? The effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake. Food Policy, 64, 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.10.001
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2016). Is medicines parallel trade ‘regulatory arbitrage’? International journal of Health Economics and Management, 16(4), 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10754-016-9199-z
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2016). Deregulation and access to medicines: the Peruvian experience. Journal of International Development, 28(6), 997-1005. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3096
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Zigante, Valentina (2016). The choice agenda in European health systems: the role of middle-class demands. Public Money and Management, 36(6), 409-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2016.1206748
  • Espie, Colin A., Luik, Annemarie I., Cape, John, Drake, Christopher L., Siriwardena, A. Niroshan, Ong, Jason C., Gordon, Christopher, Bostock, Sophie, Hames, Peter & Nisbet, Mhairi et al (2016). Digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia versus sleep hygiene education: the impact of improved sleep on functional health, quality of life and psychological well-being. Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-016-1364-7
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rovira Forns, Joan, Sato, Azusa (2016). Eliciting health care priorities in developing countries: experimental evidence from Guatemala. Health Policy and Planning, 31(1), 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czv022
  • Bergquist, Savannah, Costa-Font, Joan, Swartz, Katherine (2016). Partnership program for long-term care insurance: the right model for addressing uncertainties with the future? Ageing and Society, 36(9), 1779-1793. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X15000793
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe, Swartz, Katherine (2015). Financing long-term care: ex-ante, ex-post or both? Health Economics, 24, 45-57. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3152
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Fernández, José-Luis, Swartz, Katherine (2015). Transitioning between ‘the old’ and ‘the new’ long-term care systems. Health Economics, 24, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3156
  • Alders, Peter, Costa-Font, Joan, de Klerk, Mirjam, Frank, Richard (2015). What is the impact of policy differences on nursing home utilization?: the cases of Germany and the Netherlands. Health Policy, 119(6), 814-820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.02.006
  • Costa-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair, Varol, Nebibe (2015). Regulation effects on the adoption of new medicines. Empirical Economics, 49(3), 1101-1121. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-014-0903-x
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina (2015). Concentration indices of income related self-reported health: a meta-regression analysis. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 37(4), 619-633. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppu061
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe (2015). Crowding out of long-term care insurance: evidence from European expectations data. Health Economics, 24, 74-88. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3148
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Forns, Joan Rovira, Sato, Azusa (2015). Participatory health system priority setting: evidence from a budget experiment. Social Science & Medicine, 146, 182-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.042
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey. Journal of Economic Surveys, 29(2), 357-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12061
  • Costa-Font, Joan, De-Albuquerque, Filipe, Doucouliagos, Hristos (2015). When does inter-jurisdictional competition engender a 'race to the bottom'? A meta-regression analysis. Economics and Politics, 27(3), 488-508. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecpo.12066
  • Costa-Font, Joan, De-Albuquerque, Filipe, Doucouliagos, Hristos (2014). Do jurisdictions compete on taxes? A meta-regression analysis. Public Choice, 161(3-4), 451-470. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-014-0170-6
  • Costa-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair, Varol, Nebibe (2014). Price regulation and relative delays in generic drug adoption. Journal of Health Economics, 38, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2014.04.004
  • Sato, Azusa, Costa-Font, Joan (2014). The hedonic procedural effect of traditional medicines. Journal of Happiness Studies, 15(5), 1061-1084. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-013-9464-5
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline, Tan, S. (2014). Brand loyalty, patients and limited generic medicines uptake. Health Policy, 116(2-3), 224-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2014.01.015
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, Rubio, Dolores Jiménez (2014). Income inequalities in unhealthy life styles in England and Spain. Economics and Human Biology, 13, 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2013.03.003
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Just, D. R., Fasolo, Barbara, Powdthavee, Nattavudh (2014). Nudging ourselves? The limits of incentivizing "good behavior". Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 36(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/ppt035
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia, Yen, Steven T. (2013). Not all incentives wash out the warm glow: the case of blood donation revisited. KYKLOS, 66(4), 521-543. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12034
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan (2013). Intergenerational and socioeconomic gradients of child obesity. Social Science & Medicine, 93, 29-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.05.035
  • Sato, Azusa, Costa-Font, Joan (2013). Social networking for medical information a digital divide or a trust inquiry? Health Policy and Technology, 2(3), 139-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2013.05.002
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, McDonald, James Ted, Variyam, Jayachandran N. (2013). Understanding healthy lifestyles: the role of choice and the environment. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 35(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps051
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2013). Anorexia, body image and peer effects: evidence from a sample of European women. Economica, 80(317), 44-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2011.00912.x
  • Costa-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair, Stanley, Tom (2013). Publication selection in health policy research: the winner's curse hypothesis. Health Policy, 109(1), 78-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.10.015
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2013). Housing-related well-being in older people: the impact of environmental and financial influences. Urban Studies, 50(4), 657-673. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098012456247
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2013). Measuring health inequality with categorical data: some regional patterns. Research on Economic Inequality, 21, 53-76. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1049-2585(2013)0000021004
  • Rudisill, Caroline, Costa-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias (2012). Behavioral adjustment to avian flu in Europe during spring 2006: the roles of knowledge and proximity to risk. Social Science & Medicine, 75(8), 1362-1371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.06.005
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2012). Myths of health care decentralization. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 17(4), 252-253. https://doi.org/10.1258/jhsrp.2012.012011
  • Varol, Nebibe, Costa-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair (2012). Does adoption of pharmaceutical innovation respond to changes in the regulatory environment? Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 34(3), 531-553. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps027
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Karlsson, Martin, van den Berg, Bernard (2012). Redesigning long-term care finance and delivery. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 34(2), 215-219. https://doi.org/10.1093/aepp/pps024
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Sato, Azusa (2012). Health systems futures: the challenges of technology, prevention and insurance. Futures, 44(7), 696-703. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2012.04.009
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina (2012). Measuring Inequalities in Health: What do we Know? What do we need to Know? Health Policy, 106(2), 195-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.04.007
  • Costa-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair, Serra-Sastre, Victoria (2012). The “Weisbrod Quadrilemma” revisited: insurance incentives on new health technologies. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 37(4), 678-695. https://doi.org/10.1057/gpp.2012.37
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2011). Behavioural welfare economics: does 'behavioural optimality' matter? CESifo Economic Studies, 57(4), 551-559. https://doi.org/10.1093/cesifo/ifr028
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Gemmill Toyama, Marin (2011). Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions among the elderly? Health Policy, 101(2), 195-208. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.09.001
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Gemmill, Marin, Rubert, Gloria (2011). Biases in the healthcare luxury good hypothesis?: a meta-regression analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society, 174(1), 95-107. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00653.x
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Costa-Font, Montserrat (2011). Explaining optimistic old age disability and longevity expectations. Social Indicators Research, 104(3), 533-544. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-010-9760-y
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2011). Insurance crowding out and long-term care partnerships. CESifo DICE Report, 9(2), 52-54.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, McGuire, Alistair (2011). Persistence despite action? Measuring the patterns of health inequality in England (1997–2007). Health Policy, 103(2-3), 149-159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.07.002
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Salvador-Carulla, Luis, Cabases, Juan, Alonso, Jordi, McDaid, David (2011). Tackling neglect and mental health reform in a devolved system of welfare governance. Journal of Social Policy, 40, 295-312. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279410000553
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2010). Devolution, diversity and welfare reform: long-term care in the ‘Latin Rim’. Social Policy and Administration, 44(4), 481-494. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2010.00724.x
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2010). Does devolution lead to regional inequalities in welfare activity? Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 28(3), 435-449. https://doi.org/10.1068/c09156
  • Salvador-Carulla, Luis, Costa-Font, Joan, Cabases, Juan, McDaid, David, Alonso, Jordi (2010). Evaluating mental health care and policy in Spain. Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 13(2), 73-86.
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2010). Book review: the politics of European Union health policies. Journal of European Social Policy, 20(2), p. 170. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287100200020602
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan, Mascarilla-Miró, Oscar (2010). Housing wealth and housing decisions in old age: sale and reversion. Housing Studies, 25(3), 375-395. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673031003711014
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2010). Book review: territory, democracy and justice: regionalism and federalism in western democracies. Regional Studies, 44(1), p. 135. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400903557567
  • Breyer, Frederich, Costa-Font, Joan, Felder, Stefan (2010). Ageing, health, and health care. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26(4), 674-690. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grq032
  • Banting, Keith, Costa-Font, Joan (2010). Decentralization, welfare, and social citizenship in contemporary democracies. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 28(3), 381-388. https://doi.org/10.1068/c2803ed
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Fabbri, Daniele, Gil, Joan (2010). Decomposing cross-country differences in levels of obesity and overweight: does the social environment matter? Social Science & Medicine, 70(8), 1185-1193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.12.011
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2010). Family ties and the crowding out of long-term care insurance. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26(4), 691-712. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grq040
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan (2009). Exploring the pathways of inequality in health, health care access and financing in decentralized Spain. Journal of European Social Policy, 19(5), 446 - 458. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928709344289
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, García-Villar, Jaume (2009). Risk attitudes and the demand for private health insurance: the importance of 'captive preferences'. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 80(4), 499-521. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8292.2009.00396.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mascarilla-Miró, O., Elvira, D. (2009). Ageing in place? An examination of elderly people housing preferences in Spain. Urban Studies, 46(2), 295-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098008099356
  • López Casasnovas, Guillem, McDaid, David, Costa-i-Font, Joan (2009). Decentralisation and management autonomy?: evidence from the Catalonian hospital sector in a decentralised Spain. International Public Management Review, 10(2), 103-119.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Fabbri, Daniele, Gil, Joan (2009). Decomposing body mass index gaps between Mediterranean countries: a counterfactual quantile regression analysis. Economics and Human Biology, 7, 351-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2009.08.003
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2009). Do incentives, complexity and the demand for leisure explain caesarean-section deliveries? International Journal of Social Economics, 36(9), 906-915. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290910977739
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline (2009). Optimism and the perceptions of new risks. Journal of Risk Research, 12(1), 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1080/13669870802445800
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2009). Simultaneity, asymmetric devolution and economic incentives in Spanish regional elections. Regional and Federal Studies, 19(1), 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/13597560802692736
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline (2009). When is the Internet a valued communication device for health information in Europe? Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 18(5), 429-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438590802547159
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan (2008). Would socio-economic inequalities in depression fade away with income transfers? Journal of Happiness Studies, 9(4), 539-558. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-008-9088-3
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline, Mossialos, Elias (2008). Attitudes as an expression of knowledge and 'political anchoring': the case of nuclear power in the United Kingdom. Risk Analysis, 28(5), 1273-1283. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2008.01094.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Garcia-Gonzalez, Anna, Font-Vilalta, Montserrat (2008). Relative income and attitudes towards long-term care financing. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 33(4), 673-693. https://doi.org/10.1057/gpp.2008.32
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mladovsky, Philipa (2008). Social capital and the social formation of health-related preferences and behaviours. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 3(04), 413-427. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133108004635
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2008). Housing assets and the socio-economic determinants of health and disability in old age. Health and Place, 14(3), 478-491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.09.005
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias, Rudisill, Caroline (2008). Are feelings of genetically modified food politically driven? Risk Management, 10(3), 218-234. https://doi.org/10.1057/rm.2008.5
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2008). Is there a 'secession of the wealthy'?: private health insurance uptake and National Health System support. Bulletin of Economic Research, 60(3), 265-287. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8586.2008.00285.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Wittenberg, Raphael, Patxot, Concepció, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Gori, Cristiano, di Maio, Alessandra, Pickard, Linda, Pozzi, Alessandro, Rothgang, Heinz (2008). Projecting long-term care expenditure in four European Union member states: the influence of demographic scenarios. Social Indicators Research, 86(2), 303-321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-007-9140-4
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rovira-Forns, Joan (2008). Who is willing to pay for long-term care insurance in Catalonia? Health Policy, 86(1), 72-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2007.09.011
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil Transfi, Joan (2008). Generational effects and gender height dimorphism in contemporary Spain. Economics and Human Biology, 6(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2007.10.004
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil, J. (2008). What lies behind socio-economic inequalities in obesity in Spain: a decomposition approach. Food Policy, 33(1), 61-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2007.05.005
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Moscone, Francesco (2008). The impact of decentralization and inter-territorial interactions on Spanish health expenditure. Empirical Economics, 34(1), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-007-0166-x
  • Kanavos, Panos, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Seeley, Elizabeth (2008). Competition in off-patent drug markets: issues, regulation and evidence. Economic Policy, 23(55), 499-544. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0327.2008.00207.x
  • Aspachs, Oriol, Clots-Figueres, Irma, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Massella, Paolo (2008). Compulsory language educational policies and identity formation. Journal of the European Economic Association, 6(2-3), 434-444. https://doi.org/10.1162/JEEA.2008.6.2-3.434
  • Mossialos, Elias, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline (2008). Does organ donation legislation affect individuals' willingness to donate their own or their relative's organs?: evidence from European Union survey data. BMC Health Services Research, 8(48). https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-48
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Puig-Junoy, Jaume (2007). Institutional change, innovation and regulation failure: evidence from the Spanish drug market. Policy and Politics, 35(4), 701-718. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557307782452994
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias (2007). Are perceptions of 'risks' and 'benefits' of genetically modified food (in)dependent? Food Quality and Preference, 18(2), 173-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2005.09.013
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Kanavos, Panos, Rovira-Forns, Joan (2007). Determinants of out-of-pocket pharmaceutical expenditure and access to drugs in Catalonia. Applied Economics, 39(5), 541-551. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500438947
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Kanavos, Panos (2007). Importaciones paralelas de medicamentos: El caso de la Simvastaina en Alemania, Holanda y el Reino Unido. Gaceta Sanitaria, 21(1), 53-59.
  • Gemmill, Marin, Costa-i-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair (2007). In search of a corrected prescription drug elasticity estimate: a meta-regression approach. Health Economics, 16(6), 627-643. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1190
  • Pickard, Linda, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gori, Cristiano, di Maio, Alessandra, Patxot, Concepció, Pozzi, Alessandro, Rothgang, Heinz, Wittenberg, Raphael (2007). Modelling an entitlement to long-term care services for older people in Europe: projection for long-term care expenditure to 2050. Journal of European Social Policy, 17(1), 33-48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928707071879
  • Kanavos, Panos, Costa-i-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair (2007). Product differentiation, competition and regulation of new drugs: the case of statins in four European countries. Managerial and Decision Economics, 28(4-5), 455-465. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.1354
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Pons-Novell, J (2007). Public health expenditure and spatial interactions in a decentralized national health system. Health Economics, 16(3), 291-306. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1154
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias (2006). The public as a limit to technology transfer: the influence of knowledge and beliefs in attitudes towards biotechnology in the UK. Journal of Technology Transfer, 31(6), 629-645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-006-0019-3
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2006). Are private health insurance subscribers unsatisfied with the Spanish National Health System? Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 31(4), 650-668. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510102
  • Gemmill, Marin, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Kanavos, Panos (2006). Insurance coverage and the heterogeneity of health and drug spending in the United States. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 31(4), 669-691. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.gpp.2510098
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mascarilla-Miró, Oscar, Elvira, David (2006). Means testing and the heterogeneity of housing assets: funding long-term care in Spain. Social Policy and Administration, 40(5), 543-559. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2006.00504.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias, Costa-Font, Montserrat (2006). Erring on the side of caution?: the heterogeneity of public perceptions of biotechnology applications in the European Union. Journal of Economic Issues, 40(3), 767-777.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rico, A. (2006). Vertical competition in the Spanish National Health System (NHS). Public Choice, 128(3-4), 477-498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-005-9011-y
  • Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Wittenberg, Raphael, Gori, Cristiano, Costa-i-Font, Joan, di Maio, Alessandra, Patxot, Concepció, Pickard, Linda, Pozzi, Alessandro, Rothgang, Heinz (2006). Future long-term care expenditure in Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. Ageing and Society, 26(2), 285-302. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X05004289
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Font-Vilalta, Montserrat (2006). Design limitations of long-term care insurance schemes: A comparative study of the situation in Spain. International Social Security Review, 59(4), 91-110. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2006.00255.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rico, A. (2006). Devolution and the interregional inequalities in health and healthcare in Spain. Regional Studies, 40(8), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400600984346
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo (2006). Path dependency and the allocation of public investment in Mexico. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 24(2), 297-311. https://doi.org/10.1068/c056
  • Costa-Font, Joan, McDaid, David (2006). Pharmaceutical policy reform in Spain. Eurohealth, 12(4), 14-17.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan (2006). Revisiting the ‘fat and jolly’ hypothesis: socio-environmental determinants of obesity and depression in Spain. Socio-Economic Review, 4(3), 513-542. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwl018
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias (2006). Which policies effectively enable smoking cessation? Evidence from the European Union. International Journal of Social Economics, 33(1), 77-100. https://doi.org/10.1108/03068290610636442
  • Kanavos, Panos, Costa-i-Font, Joan (2005). Pharmaceutical parallel trade in Europe: stakeholders and competition effects. Economic Policy, 20(44), 751-798. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0327.2005.00150.x
  • Lopez-Casasnovas, Guillem, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Planas, Ivan (2005). Diversity and regional inequalities in the Spanish system of health care services. Health Economics, 14(S1), 221-235. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1038
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo (2005). Is the impact of public investment neutral across the regional income distribution?: evidence from Mexico. Economic Geography, 81(3), 305-322. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2005.tb00272.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan (2005). Obesity and the incidence of chronic diseases in Spain: a seemingly unrelated probit approach. Economics and Human Biology, 3(2), 188-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2005.05.004
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias (2005). ‘Ambivalent’ individual preferences towards biotechnology in the European Union: products or processes? Journal of Risk Research, 8(4), 341-354. https://doi.org/10.1080/1366987042000275091
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo (2005). Trade and the effect of public investment on regional inequalities in heterogeneously integrated areas. World Economy, 28(6), 873-892. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9701.2005.00710.x
  • Mossialos, Elias, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Davaki, Konstantina, Karras, Konstantinos (2005). Is there 'patient selection' in the demand for private maternity care in Greece? Applied Economics Letters, 12(1), 7-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504850420007099
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Kanavos, Panos (2005). Efectos del comercio paralelo de medicamentos en la Unión Europea y evidencia de Alemania. Boletin de Estudios Economicos, 60(185), 251-263.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rovira, Joan (2005). Eliciting preferences for collectively financed health programmes: the 'willingness to assign' approach. Applied Economics, 37(14), 1571-1583. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500181695
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2005). Inequalities in self reported health within Spanish regional health services: devolution re-examined? International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 20(1), 41-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.795
  • Rico, Ana, Costa-i-Font, Joan (2005). Power rather than path dependency?: The dynamics of institutional change under health care federalism. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 30(1), 231-252. https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-30-1-2-231
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil Transfi, Joan (2004). Social interactions and the contemporaneous determinants of individuals’ weight. Applied Economics, 36(20), 2253-2263. https://doi.org/10.1080/0003684042000280562
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Font-Vilalta, Montserrat (2004). Preference for National Health Service use and the demand for private health insurance in Spain. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 29(4), 705-718. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0440.2004.00312.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Patxot, Concepció (2004). The intergenerational impact of long-term care financing alternatives in Spain. Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice, 29(4), 599-619. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0440.2004.00305.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo, Lunapla, Dario (2003). Political competition and pork-barrel politics in the allocation of public investment in Mexico. Public Choice, 116(1-2), 185-204. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024263208736
  • Costa, Montserrat, Riviere, Ana, Vilella, Marta, Costa-i-Font, Joan (2003). Comunicación de riesgos y percepción de la población: el caso de la encefalopatía bovina espongiforme (EBE) en España. Revista de Administración Sanitaria Siglo XXI, 13, 457-470.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Garcia, Jaume (2003). Demand for private health insurance: how important is the quality gap? Health Economics, 12(7), 587-599. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.756
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Tremosa, R (2003). Spanish regions and the macroeconomic benefits of the European monetary union. Regional Studies, 37(3), 219-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/0034340032000065389
  • Rovira, Joan, Kip Viscusi, W., Antoñanzas, Fernando, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Hart, Warren, Carvalho, Irineu (2000). Smoking risks in Spain: part II — perceptions of environmental tobacco smoke externalities. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 21(2-3), 187-212. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007859307096
    • Book
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Galizzi, Matteo M. (Eds.) (2024). Behavioural economics and policy for pandemics: insights from responses to COVID-19. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009438438 [In Press]
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Batinti, Alberto, Turati, Gilberto (2023). Handbook on the political economy of health systems. Edward Elgar.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hockley, Tony, Rudisill, Caroline (2023). Behavioural incentive design for health policy: steering for health. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168113
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto, Batinti, Alberto (2020). The political economy of health and healthcare: the rise of the patient citizen. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108653015
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Macis, Mario (Eds.) (2017). Social economics: current and emerging avenues. MIT Press.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Greer, Scott (Eds.) (2012). Federalism and decentralization in European health and social care. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • McGuire, Alistair, Costa-i-Font, Joan (Eds.) (2012). The LSE companion to health policy. Edward Elgar.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (Ed.) (2012). Europe and the Mediterranean economy. Routledge.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe (Eds.) (2011). Financing long-term care in Europe: institutions, markets and models. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2011). Reforming long term care in Europe. Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe, McGuire, Alistair (Eds.) (2009). The economics of new health technologies. Oxford University Press.
  • Kanavos, Panos, Ustel, Ismail, Costa-Font, Joan (2005). Türkiye'de ilaç geri ödeme politikası. Sağlıkta Umut Vakfı. https://doi.org/9750037014
    • Chapter
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan (2025). Democratic quality and population health. In Jong-A-Pin, R. & Bjørnskov, C. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice (pp. 206 - 211). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802207750.00035
  • McGuire, Alistair, Costa-Font, Joan, Thomas, R. (2025). Towards resilient and sustainable universal healthcare coverage. In Besley, T., Bucelli, I. & Velasco, A. (Eds.), The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century (pp. 433 - 471). LSE Press. https://doi.org/10.31389/lsepress.tlc.m picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jimenez-Martin, Sergi, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina, Viola, Analia (2025). Universalizing the access to long-term care: evidence from Spain. In Gruber, J. & McGarry, K. (Eds.), Long-Term Care around the World . University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226840390.003.0010
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Galizzi, Matteo M. (2024). Behavioural economics and policy for pandemics: pandemics as tipping points. In Costa-Font, J. & Galizzi, M. M. (Eds.), Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics: Insights from Responses to COVID-19 (pp. 1 - 8). Cambridge University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan (2023). Do democratic regimes exhibit 'better' health outcomes? In Handbook on the political economy of health systems (pp. 27-41). Edward Elgar.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Marchi, Nicolas, Winberg, Debra (2023). Medical composition of cabinets and the health care system. In Handbook on the political economy of health systems (pp. 147-156). Edward Elgar.
  • Angelici, Marta, Berta, Paolo, Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (2023). Multilevel governance in the first wave of Covid-19. In Handbook on the political economy of health systems (pp. 430-445). Edward Elgar.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna (2023). Soviet communism and later-life health and health care. In Handbook on the political economy of health systems (pp. 42-56). Edward Elgar.
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (2023). An introduction to the handbook on the political economy of health systems. In Handbook on the political economy of health systems (pp. 2-10). Edward Elgar.
  • Batinti, Alberto, Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (2023). The political economy of health systems: research space, goals and lessons. In Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems (pp. 447-453). Edward Elgar.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Macis, Mario (2017). Social economics: current and emerging avenues. In Costa-Font, J. & Macis, M. (Eds.), Social Economics: Current and Emerging Avenues (pp. 1-12). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035651.001.0001
  • Zigante, Valentina, Costa-Font, Joan, Cooper, Zack (2012). Choice in health care: drivers and consequences. In McGuire, A. & Costa-Font, J. (Eds.), The Lse Companion To Health Policy (pp. 79-93). Edward Elgar.
    • Conference or Workshop Item
  • Pickard, Linda, Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Costa-Font, Joan, Gori, Cristiano, di Maio, Alessandra, Rothgang, Heinz, Wittenberg, Raphael (2003-09-23 - 2003-09-26) Modelling an entitlement to long-term care in Europe: projections for long-term care expenditure to 2050 [Paper]. 6th ESA Conference, Murcia, Spain, ESP.
    • Dataset
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline, Linvill, Katie, Chupak, Anna Louise, Harrison, Sayward, Hung, Peiyin, Li, Xiaoming (2025). Trust or money? Barriers to health and healthcare behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. [Dataset]. figshare. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0331600
    • Report
  • Kanavos, Panos, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Merkur, S., Gemmill, M. (2004). The economic impact of pharmaceutical parallel trade in European union member states: a stakeholder analysis. (Special Research Paper). London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • Online resource
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2018). Book review: behavioral economics and healthy behaviors edited by Yaniv Hanoch, Andrew J. Barnes and Thomas Rice.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2017). Warning: the cost of Brexit could seriously damage your health service.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Flèche, Sarah (2017). Sleep deprivation, even when moderate, hurts employment.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). How European integration influences the way we think about redistribution of income.
  • Hopkin, Jonathan, Moreno, Luis, Quiroga, Alejandro, Olivas, Jose Javier, Basta, Karlo, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Borrell Porta, Mireia (2015). Experts react: Catalan elections.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Kossarova, Lucia (2015). Height increases in the Czech Republic and Slovakia illustrate the effect of self-determination on citizens’ well-being.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2015). Parallel trade in medicinal drugs is putting the welfare of EU patients at risk.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2015). Decentralised healthcare systems can help reduce regional inequalities in health provision.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Zigante, Valentina (2014). Why the views of middle class citizens help explain increased choice in European healthcare systems.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline, Stefanie, Tan (2014). How important is patient brand loyalty in the uptake of generic drugs?
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2014). Given that obesity produces significant social costs, public health authorities need to be far more pro-active in designing interventions.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia, Yen, Steven T. (2012). Non-monetary rewards could be used to incentivise blood donation.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2012). The centralisation of education funding and the new health reforms are inconsistent with localism and accountable government.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2012). Government intervention would be justified to prevent a potential epidemic of food disorders.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2012). Research news: Anorexia and distorted self image of younger women, Joan Costa-Font and Mireia Jofre-Bonet.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2012). A better understanding of the behavioural constraints that people face will help policy makers to more effectively target public policy interventions that aim to change their actions.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2012). Does devolution bring welfare improvements? Evidence from Spain shows that giving Scotland and Wales the power to set speed limits might save lives across the UK.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline (2011). A move to presumed consent would increase the number of organ donors and their willingness to donate.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2011). We can prevent the ‘crowding out’ of long term care insurance by family financing if government offers a level of provision that can then be topped up.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, McGuire, Alistair (2011). While health inequalities may have declined under Labour, specific interventions have not had a significant impact.
    • Working paper
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2024). Specific egalitarianism? Inequality aversion across domains. (III Working Paper 142). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.hg3ltcudbo49 picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Grahed, Anton (2023). Behavioural explanations for gender gaps in obesity and overweight in Egypt. (LSE Middle East Centre Paper Series 81). LSE Middle East Centre. picture_as_pdf
  • Asaria, Miqdad, Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2021). How does exposure to COVID-19 influence health and income inequality aversion? (IZA discussion paper 14103). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada (2017). Can regional decentralisation shift health care preferences? (Discussion Paper Series IZA DP No. 11180). IZA (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit).
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Frank, Richard, Swartz, Katherine (2017). Access to long-term care after a wealth shock: evidence from the housing bubble and burst. (NBER Working Paper 23781). National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Parmar, Divya (2017). Political agency and public health care: evidence from India. (CESifo Working Paper 6640). Munich Society for the Promotion of Economic Research.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Flèche, Sarah (2017). Parental sleep and employment: evidence from a British cohort study. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1467). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia, Le Grand, Julian (2016). Vertical transmission of overweight: evidence from English adoptees. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1324). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2016). The measurement of health inequalities does status matter? (III Working Paper 6). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.iieus6cvdbll
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi, Vilaplana, Cristina (2016). Does long-term care subsidisation reduce hospital admissions? (CESifo working papers 6078). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi, Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina (2016). 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.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2016). Like mother, like gather? Gender assortative transmission of child overweight. (CESifo Working Paper 5985). Center for Economic Studies.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Sato, Azusa (2016). Cultural persistence of health capital: evidence from European migrants. (CESifo Working Paper 5964). Center for Economic Studies.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (2016). Regional health care decentralization in Unitary States: equal spending, equal satisfaction? (CESifo Working Paper 5973). Center for Economic Studies.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). European identity and redistributive preferences. (III Working Paper 3). International Inequalities Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.21953/lse.p78ftr7d9y5j picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). European identity and redistributive preferences. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1362). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2015). European identity and redistributive preferences. (CESifo working paper 5412). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Karlsson, Martin, Øien, Henning (2015). Informal care and the great recession. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1360). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Cheng, Terence C., Costa-Font, Joan, Powdthavee, Nattavudh (2015). Do you have to win it to fix it? a longitudinal studyof lottery winners and their health care demand. (CEP discussion paper 1339). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, De-Albuquerque, Filipe, Doucouliagos, Hristos (2015). When does inter-jurisdictional competition engender a "race to the bottom"?: a meta-regression analysis. (CESifo working paper 5212). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2015). Is medicines parallel trade ‘regulatory arbitrage’? (CESifo working papers 5190). CESifo Group.
  • Bergquist, Savannah, Costa-Font, Joan, Swartz, Katherine (2015). Long term care partnerships: are they 'fit for purpose'? (CESifo working papers 5155). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe, Swartz, Ketherine (2014). Financing long-term care: ex-ante, ex-post or both? (CESifo Working Paper WP5104). Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Kossarova, Lucia (2014). Anthropometric dividends of Czechoslovakia’s break up. (CESifo working papers 5081). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Zigante, Valentina (2014). 'The choice agenda' in European health systems: the role of 'middle class demands'. (LEQS discussion papers 82/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Mas, Núria (2014). 'Globesity'? the effects of globalization on obesity and caloric intake. (CESifo working paper series 4982). The CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Courbage, Christophe (2014). Crowding out of long-term care insurance: evidence from European expectations data. (CESifo working paper series 4910). The CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Hernandez-Quevedo, Christina, Sato, Azusa (2013). A 'Health Kuznets' curve'? Cross-country and longitudinal evidence. (CESifo working paper 4446). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2013). Measuring health inequality with categorical data: some regional patterns. (CESifo working paper 4427). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2013). Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey. (CESifo working paper 4440). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina (2013). Inequalities in self-reported health: a meta-regression analysis. (LSE Health working paper series in health policy and economics 32/2013). LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan (2013). Intergenerational and socioeconomic gradients of childhood obesity. (LSE Health working paper series in health policy and economics 30/2013). LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2012). Fiscal federalism and European health system decentralization: a perspective. (LSE 'Europe in Question' discussion paper series 55/2012). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia, Yen, Steven T. (2012). Not all incentives wash out the warm glow: the case of blood donation revisited. (CEP discussion papers CEPDP1157). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, Jiménez-Rubio, Dolores (2012). Do income gradients in unhealthy behaviours explain patterns of health inequalities? (LSE Health working paper series in health policy and economics 29/2012). LSE Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Sato, Azusa, Costa-i-Font, Joan (2012). Does culture matter at all in explaining why people still use traditional medicines? (LSE Health working papers 27). LSE Health.
  • Sato, Azusa, Costa-i-Font, Joan (2012). The hedonic placebo effect of traditional medicines. (LSE Health working papers 28). LSE Health.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Zigante, Valentina (2012). Are health care ‘choice – and – competition’ reforms really efficiency driven? (LSE Health working papers 26/2012). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair, Stanley, Tom (2012). Publication selection in health policy research: the winner’s curse hypothesis. (LSE Health working papers 25/2012). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (2012). Social identity and redistributive preferences: a survey. (Public Economics Programme discussion papers PEP 15). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2011). Anorexia, body image and peer effects: evidence from a sample of European women (discussion paper). (CEP discussion paper 1098). London School of Economics and Political Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.2011.00912.x
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, De-Albuquerque, Filipe, Doucouliagos, Hristos (2011). How significant are fiscal interactions in federations?: a meta-regression analysis. (CESifo working paper 3517). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, De-Albuquerque, Filipe, Doucouliagos, Hristos (2011). How significant are fiscal interactions in designing federations?: a meta-regression analysis. (Political science and political economy working papers 6/2011). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Varol, Nebibe, McGuire, Alistair (2011). Does pharmaceutical price regulation affect the adoption of generic competition?: evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008. (CESifo working paper 3441). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, Jiménez Rubio, Dolores (2011). Should we be concerned about income inequalities in unhealthy life styles? (IEF working paper). Instituto de Estudios Fiscales (Spain).
  • Varol, Nebibe, Costa-i-Font, Joan, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Do international launch strategies of pharmaceutical corporations respond to changes in the regulatory environment? (LSE Health working papers 19/2010). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Hernández-Quevedo, Cristina, McGuire, Alistair (2010). Persistence despite action? Measuring the patterns of health inequality in England (1997-2007). (LSE Health working papers 20/2010). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2010). Regional single currency effects on bilateral trade with the European Union. (LSE 'Europe in Question' discussion paper series 26/2010). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gemmill-Toyama, Marin (2010). Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions? (CESifo working paper 3002). CESifo Group.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan (2010). Unveiling vertical state downscaling: identity and/or the economy? (LSE 'Europe in Question' discussion paper series 20/2010). The European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2009). Body image, peer effects and food disorders: evidence from a sample of European women. (The LSE Health working papers 15/2009). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gemmill, Marin, Rubert, Gloria (2009). Re-visiting the health care luxury good hypothesis: aggregation, precision, and publication biases? (HEDG working papers 09/02). Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG).
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Fabbri, Daniele, Gil, Joan (2008). Decomposing cross-country differences in levels of obesity and overweight: does the social environment matter? (LSE Health working papers 12/2008). LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gibb, Joan (2008). Exploring the pathways of inequality in health, access and financing in decentralised Spain. (LSE Health working papers 9/2008). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Kanavos, Panos (2007). Medicines in parallel trade in the European Union: a gravity specification. (LSE Health working papers 6/2007). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Kanavos, Panos, Ustel, I., Tatar, M., Costa-i-Font, Joan (2006). Health and drug sector reform in Turkey: caveats and opportunities. Health and Social Care, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • López, Guillem, McDaid, David, Costa-i-Font, Joan (2006). Health care management autonomy: Evidence from the catalonian hospital sector in a decentralised Spain. Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gil, Joan (2004). Social interactions and the contemporaneous determinants of individuals’ weight. (Working Papers 2004-19). Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
  • López, Guillem, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Planas, Ivan (2004). Diversity and regional inequalities: assessing the outcomes of the Spanish 'system of health care services'. (Working Papers 745). Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
  • Comas-Herrera, Adelina, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Gori, Cristiano, di Maio, Alessandra, Patxot, Concepció, Pickard, Linda, Pozzi, Alessandro, Rothgang, Heinz, Wittenberg, Raphael (2003). European study of long-term care expenditure: investigating the sensitivity of projections of future long-term care expenditure in Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom to changes in assumptions about demography, dependency, informal care, formal care and unit costs. (PSSRU discussion paper 1840). PSSRU.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Mossialos, Elias (2003). Attitudes towards biotechnology applications in the UK: the role of knowledge and beliefs. London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Costa-i-Font, Joan, García, Jaume (2001). Demand for private health insurance: is there a quality gap? (Working Papers 531). Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
  • Rovira, Joan, Kip Viscusi, W., Antoñanzas, Fernando, Costa-i-Font, Joan, Hart, Warren, Carvalho, Irineu (2000). Smoking risks in Spain: part II - perceptions of environmental tobacco smoke externalities. (Economics and Business Discussion Paper 305). Harvard Law School.
    • Blog post
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna (7 January 2026) Communist education systems had a surprisingly positive impact on public health. LSE European Politics.
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Raut, Nilesh, G. Frank, Richard (12 December 2025) Rising wealth means that older people are more likely to self-insure rather than buy long-term care insurance. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (15 October 2025) How much longer than the rest of us do royals live for? And do kings and queens enjoy a "healthy stress"? LSE Inequalities. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna, Roig-Rosello, Melcior (9 September 2025) Soviet Communism was no more successful at reducing inequality than other regimes. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Raut, Nilesh (14 May 2025) Expanding state private insurance partnership programs can help reduce public spending on long term care. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (25 February 2025) Culture plays a role in personal health decisions. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Vilaplana, Cristina (6 November 2023) Health shocks make the elderly less likely to ‘age in place’. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Nicińska, Anna (28 June 2023) How Soviet communism changed the family. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Flèche, Sarah, Pagan, Ricardo (5 October 2022) Is daylight saving time good for us? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Asaria, Miqdad, Costa-Font, Joan, Akaichi, Faical (21 October 2021) Why some ethnic groups are more likely to refuse the COVID vaccine (and what we could do about it). LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline, Harrison, Sayward, Salmasi, Luca (1 July 2021) Social v market value how much is a COVID vaccine worth? LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Rudisill, Caroline, Harrison, Sayward, Salmasi, Luca (28 June 2021) Social vs market value how much is a COVID-19 vaccine worth? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Angelici, Marta, Berta, Paolo, Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (14 May 2021) Getting multi-level governance wrong can be a matter of life and death during a pandemic. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Angelici, Marta, Berta, Paolo, Costa-Font, Joan, Turati, Gilberto (6 May 2021) Getting multilevel governance wrong can be a matter of life and death during a pandemic. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Asaria, Miqdad, Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (20 April 2021) COVID-19 has made us more averse to both income and health inequalities. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Jiménez-Martínez, Sergi, Viola, Analía (14 April 2021) Underfunding is linked to high COVID-19 mortality in Spanish nursing homes. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Asaria, Miqdad, Costa-Font, Joan, Cowell, Frank (8 April 2021) COVID-19 has made us more averse to both income and health inequalities. British Politics and Policy at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (5 March 2021) Requiring vaccine passports for certain activities discrimination or behavioural change? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Asaria, Miqdad, Costa-Font, Joan (6 February 2021) Myopic self-interest restricts access to COVID-19 vaccines. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Asaria, Miqdad, Costa-Font, Joan (3 February 2021) Myopic self-interest restricts access to COVID-19 vaccines. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (11 January 2021) How can we incentivise people to get vaccinated? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (2 November 2020) Does optimism help us during a pandemic? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Levaggi, Rosella, Turati, Gilberto (17 September 2020) Hospital network management amidst covid-19: lessons from the Italian regions. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
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