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Joan Costa-i-Font

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First Name: Joan
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RePEc Short-ID: pco20

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Homepage: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/costafon/
Postal Address: London School of Economics and Political Science European Institute & Department of Social Policy, Cowdray House Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE, England (UK)
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Working papers

  1. Costa-Font, J & Gemmill, M & Rubert, G, 2009. "Re-visiting the Health Care Luxury Good Hypothesis: Aggregation, Precision, and Publication Biases?," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 09/02, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Joan Costa-Font & Daniele Fabbri & Joan Gil, 2008. "Decomposing Cross-Country Gaps in Obesity and Overweight: Does the Social Environment Matter?," Working Papers in Economics 205, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]

  3. Joan Costa i Font & Joan Gil, 2008. "Exploring the Pathways of Inequality in Health, Access and Financing in Decentralised Spain," Working Papers 2008-13, FEDEA. [Downloadable!]

  4. Costa-Font, J & Fabbri, D & Gil, J, 2008. "Decomposing Bodymass Index gaps between Mediterranean countries: A Counterfactual Quantile Regression Analysis," Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers 08/02, HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Joan Costa Font, 2007. "Biased Risk Perceptions of Longevity and Disability in Old Age," Working Papers in Economics 174, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]

  6. Joan Costa Font & Joan Gil Trasfi, 2007. "Generational Effects on Adult Height in Contemporary Spain: Exploring Gender and Individual Heterogeneity," Working Papers in Economics 169, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]

  7. Joan Costa Font & Ramon Tremosa Balcells, 2006. "National Identity and the Preference for State Opting-Out in the Basque Country," Working Papers in Economics 151, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]

  8. Joan Costa Font & Jordi Pons Novell, 2005. "Public Health Expenditure and Spatial Interactions in a Decentralized National Health System," Working Papers in Economics 139, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Joan Costa Font & Juan Rovira Forns, 2004. "Eliciting Preferences for Collectively Financed Health Programmes: the Willingness to Assign Approach," Working Papers in Economics 117, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]

  10. Joan Costa Font & Juan Rovira Forns, 2004. "Willigness to Pay for Long-Term Care Coverage: the Role of Private Information and Self-Insurance," Working Papers in Economics 124, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]

  11. Joan Costa Font & Eduardo Rodriguez Oreggia, 2004. "Is the impact of public investment neutral across the regional income distribution? Evidence from Mexico," Working Papers in Economics 113, Universitat de Barcelona. Espai de Recerca en Economia. [Downloadable!]

  12. Guillem López & Joan Costa-Font & Ivan Planas, 2004. "Diversity and Regional Inequalities: Assessing the Outcomes of the Spanish 'System of Health Care Services'," Economics Working Papers 745, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
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  13. Joan Costa & Jaume Garcia, 2001. "Demand for Private Health Insurance: Is there a Quality Gap?," Working Papers, Research Center on Health and Economics 531, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. [Downloadable!]
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  14. Joan Costa-Font & Joan Gil, . "Social interactions and the contemporaneous determinants of individuals’ weight," Working Papers 2004-19, FEDEA. [Downloadable!]
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Articles

  1. Joan Costa-Font & Elias Mossialos & Caroline Rudisill, 2009. "When is the Internet a valued communication device for health information in Europe?," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 18(5), pages 429-445. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  2. Joan Costa-Font & Christophe Courbage & Andrea Mina, 2009. "Innovation and health: pathways to new technologies," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 18(5), pages 403-406. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  3. Joan Costa-Font & Francesco Moscone, 2008. "The impact of decentralization and inter-territorial interactions on Spanish health expenditure," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 34(1), pages 167-184, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  4. Costa-Font, Joan & Gil, Joan, 2008. "What lies behind socio-economic inequalities in obesity in Spain A decomposition approach," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 33(1), pages 61-73, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  5. Costa-Font, Joan & Mladovsky, Philipa, 2008. "Social capital and the social formation of health-related preferences and behaviours," Health Economics, Policy and Law, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(04), pages 413-427, October. [Downloadable!]

  6. Oriol Aspachs-Bracons & Irma Clots-Figueras & Joan Costa-Font & Paolo Masella, 2008. "Compulsory Language Educational Policies and Identity Formation," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 6(2-3), pages 434-444, 04-05. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  7. Joan Costa-Font & Joan Gil, 2008. "Would Socio-Economic Inequalities in Depression Fade Away with Income Transfers?," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 9(4), pages 539-558, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  8. Joan Costa-Font & Mireia Jofre-Bonet, 2008. "Is There A 'Secession Of The Wealthy'? Private Health Insurance Uptake And National Health System Support," Bulletin of Economic Research, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 60(3), pages 265-287, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  9. Costa-Font, Joan & Rovira-Forns, Joan, 2008. "Who is willing to pay for long-term care insurance in Catalonia?," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 86(1), pages 72-84, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  10. Panos Kanavos & Joan Costa-Font & Elizabeth Seeley, 2008. "Competition in off-patent drug markets: Issues, regulation and evidence," Economic Policy, CEPR, CES, MSH, vol. 23, pages 499-544, 07. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  11. Costa-Font, Joan & Gil, Joan, 2008. "Generational effects and gender height dimorphism in contemporary Spain," Economics and Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 6(1), pages 1-18, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  12. Panos Kanavos & Joan Costa Font & Alistair McGuire, 2007. "Product differentiation, competition and regulation of new drugs: the case of statins in four European countries," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(4-5), pages 455-465. [Downloadable!]
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  13. Marin C. Gemmill & Joan Costa-Font & Alistair McGuire, 2007. "In search of a corrected prescription drug Elasticity estimate: a meta-regression approach," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(6), pages 627-643. [Downloadable!]

  14. Joan Costa-Font & Jordi Pons-Novell, 2007. "Public health expenditure and spatial interactions in a decentralized national health system," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 16(3), pages 291-306. [Downloadable!]
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  15. Joan Costa-Font & Panos Kanavos & Joan Rovira, 2007. "Determinants of out-of-pocket pharmaceutical expenditure and access to drugs in Catalonia," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 39(5), pages 541-551. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  16. Joan Costa-Font & Ana Rico, 2006. "Devolution and the Interregional Inequalities in Health and Healthcare in Spain," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 40(8), pages 875-887, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  17. Joan Costa-Font & Elias Mossialos, 2006. "The Public as a Limit to Technology Transfer: The Influence of Knowledge and Beliefs in Attitudes towards Biotechnology in the UK," The Journal of Technology Transfer, Springer, vol. 31(6), pages 629-645, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  18. Joan Costa-Font & Eduardo Rodríguez-Oreggia, 2006. "Path dependency and the allocation of public investment in Mexico," Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Pion Ltd, London, vol. 24(2), pages 297-311, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  19. Joan Costa-Font & Ana Rico, 2006. "Vertical Competition in the Spanish National Health System (NHS)," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 128(3), pages 477-498, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  20. Joan Costa-Font & Elias Mossialos, 2005. "Is dread of Genetically Modified food associated with the consumers’ demand for information?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 12(14), pages 859-863, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  21. Joan Costa-Font & Eduardo Rodriguez-Oreggia, 2005. "Trade and the Effect of Public Investment on Regional Inequalities in Heterogeneously Integrated Areas," The World Economy, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 28(6), pages 873-891, 06. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  22. Elias Mossialos & Joan Costa-Font & Konstantina Davaki & Konstantinos Karras, 2005. "Is there 'patient selection' in the demand for private maternity care in Greece?," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 12(1), pages 7-12, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  23. Joan Costa-Font & Joan Rovira, 2005. "Eliciting preferences for collectively financed health programmes: the 'willingness to assign’ approach," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 37(14), pages 1571-1583, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  24. Guillem Lopez-Casasnovas & Joan Costa-Font & Ivan Planas, 2005. "Diversity and regional inequalities in the Spanish 'system of health care services'," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(S1), pages S221-S235. [Downloadable!]

  25. Costa-Font, Joan & Gil, Joan, 2005. "Obesity and the incidence of chronic diseases in Spain: A seemingly unrelated probit approach," Economics and Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 3(2), pages 188-214, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  26. Panos Kanavos & Joan Costa-Font, 2005. "Pharmaceutical parallel trade in Europe: stakeholder and competition effects," Economic Policy, CEPR, CES, MSH, vol. 20(44), pages 751-798, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  27. Joan Costa-Font & Montserrat Font-Vilalta, 2004. "Preference for National Health Service Use and the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Spain," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, The International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics, vol. 29(4), pages 705-718, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  28. Joan Costa-Font & Joan Gil, 2004. "Social interactions and the contemporaneous determinants of individuals' weight," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 36(20), pages 2253-2263, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  29. Joan Costa & Jaume Garcia, 2003. "Demand for private health insurance: how important is the quality gap?," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 12(7), pages 587-599. [Downloadable!]

  30. 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, Springer, vol. 116(1-2), pages 185-204, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  31. Joan Costa-i-Font & Ramon Tremosa-i-Balcells, 2003. "Spanish Regions and the Macroeconomic Benefits of the European Monetary Union," Regional Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 37(3), pages 217-226, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  32. Rovira, Joan, et al, 2000. " Smoking Risks in Spain: Part II--Perceptions of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Externalities," Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Springer, vol. 21(2-3), pages 187-212, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

NEP Fields

16 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
  1. NEP-CBE: Cognitive & Behavioural Economics (1) 2007-04-09
  2. NEP-DCM: Discrete Choice Models (1) 2004-07-04
  3. NEP-EDU: Education (2) 2004-05-26 2004-07-04
  4. NEP-EEC: European Economics (2) 2004-05-16 2004-05-16
  5. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (1) 2004-07-04
  6. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (2) 2004-06-02 2005-09-29
  7. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (11) 2004-05-16 2004-07-04 2005-02-06 2005-03-20 2005-09-29 2007-04-09 2008-03-08 2008-04-15 2008-06-21 2008-11-11 2009-01-17 Author is listed
  8. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (1) 2007-02-10
  9. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (1) 2005-02-06
  10. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (1) 2008-11-11
  11. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty (3) 2007-02-10 2007-04-09 2008-11-11
  12. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (1) 2005-02-06
  13. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (4) 2004-05-26 2004-05-26 2004-06-02 2005-09-29 Author is listed
  14. NEP-URE: Urban & Real Estate Economics (1) 2004-05-16
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