CESifo Research Network Fellow

Joan Costa-i-Font

London School of Economics and Political Science
Department of Health Policy
Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE, London, United Kingdom

Affiliated Research Network Area

Public Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Health Economics
  • Public Economics
  • Microeconomics

CESifo Working Papers

'More than One Red Herring'? Heterogeneous Effects of Ageing on Healthcare Utilisation

Joan Costa-i-Font, Cristina Vilaplana-Prieto
CESifo, Munich, 2020
CESifo Working Paper No. 8300

Preterm Births and Educational Disadvantage: Heterogeneous Effects Across Families and Schools

Anna Baranowska-Rataj, Kieron Barclay, Joan Costa-i-Font, Mikko Myrskylä, Berkay Özcan
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7870

Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-i-Font, Timothy J. Hatton
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7701

Incorporating Inequality Aversion in Health-Care Priority Setting

Joan Costa-i-Font, Frank Cowell
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7503

Working Times and Overweight: Tight Schedules, Weaker Fitness?

Joan Costa-i-Font, Belen Saenz de Miera Juarez
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7174

Access to Long Term Care After a Wealth Shock: Evidence from The Housing Bubble and Burst

Joan Costa-i-Font, Richard G. Frank, Katherine Swartz
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6823

Does Insurance Expansion Alter Health Inequality and Mobility? Evidence from the Mexican Seguro Popular

Joan Costa-i-Font, Frank Cowell, Belén Saénz de Miera Juárez
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6788

Can Regional Decentralisation Shift Health Care Preferences?

Joan Costa-i-Font, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6779

The 'Healthy Worker Effect': Do Healthy People Climb the Occupational Ladder?

Joan Costa-i-Font, Martin Ljunge
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6712

"Institutionalization Aversion" and the Willingness to Pay for Home Health Care

Joan Costa-i-Font
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6703

Do Economic Recessions ‘Squeeze the Middle-Class’?

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-i-Font
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6673

Political Agency and Public Health Care: Evidence from India

Joan Costa-i-Font, Divya Parmar
CESifo, Munich, 2017
CESifo Working Paper No. 6640

Does the Expansion of Public Long-Term Care Funding Affect Savings Behaviour?

Joan Costa-i-Font, Cristina Vilaplana
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6135

Thinking of Incentivizing Care? The Effect of Demand Subsidies on Informal Caregiving and Intergenerational Transfers

Joan Costa-i-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6124

The Measurement of Health Inequalities: Does Status Matter?

Joan Costa-i-Font, Frank Cowell
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6117

Does Long-Term Care Subsidisation Reduce Hospital Admissions?

Joan Costa-i-Font, Sergi Jimenez-Martin, Cristina Vilaplana
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6078

Like Mother, Like Father? Gender Assortative Transmission of Child Overweight

Joan Costa-i-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5985

Regional Health Care Decentralization in Unitary States: Equal Spending, Equal Satisfaction?

Joan Costa-i-Font, Gilberto Turati
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5973

'Cultural Persistence' of Health Capital: Evidence from European Migrants

Joan Costa-i-Font, Azusa Sato
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 5964

Informal Care and the Great Recession

Joan Costa-i-Font, Martin Karlsson, Henning Øien
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5427

European Identity and Redistributive Preferences

Joan Costa-i-Font, Frank Cowell
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5412

Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence from English Adoptees

Joan Costa-i-Font, Mireia Jofre-Bonet, Julian Le Grand
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5351

When Does Inter-Jurisdictional Competition Engender a "Race to the Bottom"? A Meta-Regression Analysis

Joan Costa-i-Font, Filipe De-Albuquerque, Hristos Doucouliagos
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5212

Is Medicines Parallel Trade ‘Regulatory Arbitrage’?

Joan Costa-i-Font
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5190

Long Term Care Partnerships: Are they 'Fit for Purpose'?

Savannah Bergquist, Joan Costa-i-Font, Katherine Swartz
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5155