Recent Publications

    a) Aging and Long Term Care

Costa-Font, Joan (2012) Housing-related well-being in older people: the impact of environmental and financial influences. Urban studies, in press.

Costa-i-Font, Joan and Courbage, Christophe , (eds.) (2011) Financing long-term care in Europe: institutions, markets and models. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK

Breyer, Frederich and Costa-Font, Joan and Felder, Stefan (2010) Ageing, health, and health care. Oxford review of economic policy, 26 (4). pp. 674-690.

Costa-Font, Joan (2010) Family ties and the crowding out of long-term care insurance. Oxford review of economic policy, 26 (4). pp. 691-712.

b) Social Incentives and Health Behavior

Costa-i-Font, Joan and Jofre-Bonet, Mireia (2012) Anorexia, body image and peer effects: evidence from a sample of European women. Economica, in press.

Rudisill, Caroline and Costa-i-Font, Joan and 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). pp. 1362-1371.

Costa-i-Font, Joan and Fabbri, Daniele and Gil, Joan (2010) Decomposing cross-country differences in levels of obesity and overweight: does the social environment matter? Social science and medicine, 70 (8). pp. 1185-1193

c) Health Care Organization and Insurance

Costa-i-Font, Joan and  Greer, Scott  (2012). Federalism and Decentralization in Health and Social Care. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK.

Costa-i-Font, Joan and Gemmill, Marin and Rubert, Gloria (2011) Biases in the healthcare luxury good hypothesis?: a meta-regression analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, series A, 174 (1). pp. 95-107