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Dr Joan Costa-I-Font
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy
European Institute,
Department of Social Policy
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6484
Email: j.costa-font@lse.ac.uk|
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Biography
Dr Costa-Font's (Joan's) teaching and research focuses primarily on the economics of European welfare states and social policies (especially in the health sector), although his broader research interests lie in understanding how social incentives (culture, identity, status, self-image, altruism) and institutional arrangements accommodating preference heterogeneity (primarily regional devolution as well as the federalisation of European health systems) influence well being.
Joan holds three undergraduate degrees in Economics (Barcelona, 1996), Law and Political Science, a master's degree (MSc LSE, with distinction), a PhD in Economics (2000), and he was awarded a Marie Curie postdoctoral Fellowship based at LSE (2001). Currently he works as a Senior Lecturer (equivalent to Associate professor with tenure in the US) in Political Economy at the LSE, a joint appointment with the Department of Social Policy | and European Institute | and he is affiliated to LSE Health |, the Center of Economic Performance (CEP) |and the Political Science and Political Economy group | . Joan externally collaborates as a network research fellow with CESifo | (Munich) and FEDEA | , and has held teaching, visiting or research posts at the University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, Oxford University, the University of Munich, and the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City.
His main academic responsibilities include being stream convener of the MPA public and social policy, co-editing the journal Applied Economics, Perspectives and Policy | , the LEQS Discussion Paper Series | and has assisted the editing of a range of academic journals in his areas of specialism including being a special issue editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and the CESIfo Economic Studies among other journals.
Main Areas of Supervision
Economics of social policy – health and ageing
Political economy - welfare state design
Social Economics – identity, altruism, culture.
Publications
For a detailed list of publications, please see Joan's LSE Health and Social Care Profile |
Teaching
Social Policy
SA4F7 The Economics of European Social Policy|
SA4X6 Welfare Analysis and Measurement|
SA449 Advanced Health Economics|
European Institute
EU429 Economic and Social Policy in Mediterranean Europe|
EU439 Political and Fiscal Integration and Disintegration in EU Member States|