Joan Costa-Font (he/him)
jcosta-font.bsky.social
Joan Costa-Font (he/him)
@jcosta-font.bsky.social
Professor of Health Economics @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social
program lead AHIL @lseahil.bsky.social‬ and perceptions of inequality program @lseinequalities.bsky.social. Economic, behavioural, and political foundations of healthy ageing and inequality
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On Monday, #LSEHealth hosted Prof Adolfo Rubinstein, Argentina's former Health Minister, examining President Milei's libertarian reforms.⚖️
Over 130 attended this critical discussion on whether market-driven solutions can deliver for public health.🗨️

Watch it back:👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJD4...
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Poor heart health in middle age linked to dementia in old age – new study theconversation.com/poor-heart-h...

#Alzheimers #dementia #health #wellness
Poor heart health in middle age linked to dementia in old age – new study
A 25-year study reveals that silent heart damage in your 50s can predict dementia risk decades later.
theconversation.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Looks like a great opportunity for pop health researchers... #demography #episky
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
jobs.helsinki.fi
October 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Reminder! Our Economics of Longevity & Ageing webinar series kicks off next month, on 19 Nov!
With Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology presenting 'Elderly Health & Longevity in the US'
Register: https://cepr.org/events/event-series/economics-longevity-ageing-webinar-series
#EconSky
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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How much longer than the rest of us do royals live for? And do kings and queens enjoy a “healthy stress”?

@jcosta-font.bsky.social @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social @lseahil.bsky.social for @lseinequalities.bsky.social
What is the secret of the “healthy stress” enjoyed by kings and queens?
What is the “royal advantage” enjoyed by royals vs ordinary people in life expectancy? And what is “healthy stress” enjoyed by kings and queens specifically?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A lot of people -- millions! -- are saying that attending a pro-democracy march is a great way to get some exercise, increase social connection, improve sleep quality, and improve your brain health.
"Reducing sedentary behavior and increasing even light daily physical activity – for example, standing up for a phone call or taking short walks – can support metabolic health and help prevent diseases."
www.sciencealert.com/just-a-few-m...
Just a Few Minutes of Daily Activity Can Boost Your Metabolism, Study Reveals
A boost to the metabolism can be a walk in the park.
www.sciencealert.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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🚨 Call for #papers 🚨

Don't forget to submit your paper for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society of the #Economics of the #Household (SEHO).

It will take place in Pavia on 3–4 June 2026 and is organized by the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Pavia.

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SEHO Conference 2026 -
SEHO Conference 2026 -
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October 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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What is the “royal advantage” enjoyed by royals vs ordinary people in life expectancy? And is there a surprising “healthy stress” enjoyed by kings and queens specifically?

Joan Costa-Font reports in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

🔗 buff.ly/a0o09fe
What is the secret of the “healthy stress” enjoyed by kings and queens?
What is the “royal advantage” enjoyed by royals vs ordinary people in life expectancy? And what is “healthy stress” enjoyed by kings and queens specifically?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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One week to go! ⏰
#LSEHealth is hosting Yale's Prof Janet Currie on 13 Oct where she'll examine youth mental health realities. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

She'll show that suicide trends often move independently of other indicators. 📈
Chaired by @jcosta-font.bsky.social
More info:👉 bit.ly/48iFgxa
October 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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International graduates are sensitive to voters' preferences: they are about 25% less likely to stay when the median voter leans right, especially in election years. They are also more likely to leave when the centre erodes or extremes dominate link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Run, graduate, run: Internationally mobile students’ reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe - Public Choice
Over the last decades, Europe has attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor in the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question of whether changing political landscapes in Europe, such as increasing support for right-wing parties, could translate into a diminishing attractiveness of European economies. To this end, international graduates’ staying behaviour in 27 European destination countries is compared based on bilateral stay rates for 144 countries of origin from 2009 to 2019. International graduates are found to display a notable sensitivity concerning the electorate’s preferences: If the potential median voter is located on the right of the political spectrum, the number of international graduates willing to stay declines by about one quarter. This effect is stronger in election years when voters’ political preferences become more salient. Further results suggest that international graduates are also more prone to leaving if the political centre erodes or one of the political fringes becomes too dominant. Eventually, this amounts to a considerable loss for European economies since international graduates have acquired destination country-specific human capital and are easily integrated into host societies.
link.springer.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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LSE Health September newsletter highlights researchers driving global health impact! 📰

From BBC interviews on malaria breakthroughs to Economist warnings on Europe's elderly care crisis. Plus academic tribute & upcoming events. 💡

READ NOW: mailchi.mp/lse/lse-heal...

#LSEHealth
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We are experiencing a quick deglobalization of labour with massive consequences for innovation :"In the US, employers pay about $5,000-$10,000 to sponsor a worker every three years plus the new $100,000 H-1B fee"

www.ft.com/content/33ce...
Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
FT.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#Communism in the #SovietUnion was no more successful at reducing #inequality than other regimes, in Europe and beyond.

@jcosta-font.bsky.social @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social, Anna Nicińska & Melcior Roig-Rosello for @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social 👇
Soviet Communism was no more successful at reducing inequality than other regimes
People exposed to Soviet Communism are worse off according to current and retrospective measures of welfare than people in other countries.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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👑𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 ‘𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬’

Why did monarchs outlive their royal kin who enjoyed the same privileges and upbringing?

👉Read the column in VoxEu here: bit.ly/3K7T4AN

@jcosta-font.bsky.social #Eustress #Longevity #HealthPolicy
September 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Three myths about youth #MentalHealth need addressing💥

On Mon 13 Oct, #LSEHealth is hosting Yale economist Prof Janet Currie to unpack the "defining public health crisis of our time."
Chaired by @jcosta-font.bsky.social

More info:👉 bit.ly/48iFgxa
September 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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New Gallup poll: Net favorability of public figures

Pope Leo XIV +46
Volodymyr Zelenskyy +18
Bernie Sanders +11
Emmanuel Macron -1
AOC -4
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -5
Joe Biden -11
JD Vance -11
Gavin Newsom -11
Pete Hegseth -12
Donald Trump -16
Marco Rubio -16
Benjamin Netanyahu -23
Elon Musk -28
August 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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It's hard to fathom that every 6-8 years UK universities spend years and hundreds of millions doing something that can be done in an afternoon by one person with access to impact-factor weighted citation counts.
Here's a newer study that's even better. VQR = bibliometric algorithm. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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VACANCY ALERT: Research Fellow in Health Economics at #LSEHealth 💼

How do breakthrough cardiovascular medicines actually reach patients and are they delivering the value we expect? 🔍

APPLY NOW to join Huseyin Naci's Pharmaceutical Policy Lab: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Deadline: 7 Sept 2025
August 6, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞

💡 Read Joan Costa-i-Font's research on later-life health being shaped by early life experiences, using data from post-soviet countries.

bit.ly/4mZTMPy

#HealthPolicy #LifeShocks
June 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Almost surely none of this is real. This is multinationals using inflated transfer prices to make profits appear in low-tax Ireland. Trump's EU trade war is stupid on many levels, but the fact that it's based in part on an accounting fiction is the cherry on top
May 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Along with everything else, Trump has threatened to put 50 percent tariffs on the EU, which would basically shut down trans-Atlantic trade. Many people have noted that (a) the EU has very low tariffs on US goods (b) much of the EU surplus in goods is offset by a deficit in services. But ...
May 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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“reliance on ChatGPT for idea generation comes with a trade-off: while enhancing individual ideas' creativity, it reduces the diversity of ideas in a pool of ideas-a critical element for effective brainstorming”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming
www.nature.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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College attendance is one of the ways young men have fallen behind. Within this article, we ask for feedback from readers on what can be done to help struggling boys.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
May 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Expanding state private insurance partnership programs can help reduce public spending on long term care write @jcosta-font.bsky.social and Nilesh Raut of @lseahil.bsky.social , @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
May 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM