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  • 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
  • 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, Nicińska, Anna (2025). Long lasting health effects of Soviet education. Economica, 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, Nicińska, Anna, Rosello-Roig, Melcior (2025). The effects on inequality and mobility of exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe. Journal of Comparative Economics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2025.07.012 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
  • 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
  • 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, Richard, Bjørnskov, Christian (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, Tim, Bucelli, Irene, Velasco, Andrés (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, Jonathan, McGarry, Kathleen (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, Joan, Galizzi, Matteo 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, Joan, Macis, Mario (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, Alistair, Costa-Font, Joan (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, 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
  • Costa-Font, Joan (15 April 2020) The Covid-19 crisis reveals how much we value old age. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan (23 March 2020) We only changed our behaviour when we saw Covid-19 at our doorstep. LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf
  • Costa-Font, Joan, Just, David, Fasolo, Barbara, Powdthavee (28 February 2014) The ‘nudge’ agenda is at the forefront of contemporary economic debate for good reason, but it is not yet clear that it can be applied in straightforward way in all circumstances. British Politics and Policy at LSE.