Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏
@JoanCostaiFont
Professor of Health Economics @LSEHealthPolicy | Co-Lead @ageinglab & "perceptions of inequality program" @LSEInequalities| Fellow @iza_bonn @CESifoGroup
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We are pleased to announce that the next HEPL seminar will be held on 15 May 2024, and presented by Prof Joan Costa-Font (Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏) on spillovers effects of policy decision across countries. Register here:
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How can behavioral science contribute to better preparedness for future pandemics? Behavioural Economics and Policy for Pandemics tackles this issue with contributions from Team Scientists George Loewenstein, Silvia Saccardo, & Hengchen Dai. Preorder: bit.ly/4d0cvp6
Amazing Soumaya Keynes in this Financial Times piece! 👉 “I am asking for titles that reveal the question or the result. Too many have the format “thing, thing and thing”. Unless one of those things is “sex”, “drugs” or “rock ‘n’ roll”, try again.” 🙌
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Great points on freedom by Joseph E. Stiglitz freedom cannot be the excuse to weaken the weakest: “Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.” (Isaiah Berlin) '‘Freedom for the gun owners has often meant death to schoolchildren and adults killed in mass shootings.’
The Double Dividend of Nudges - superb, brilliant, important paper, producing an insight that has long been awaiting explicit treatment and empirical support. Andreas Grunewald ⛵ Steffen Altmann Richard H Thaler 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 Katy Milkman Natasha Sarin
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Also available in English via El País English Edition here.
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Marketing cancer drugs to physicians increases prescribing without improving mortality, from @citizeness, Michael Daly, and Jing Li 李婧 nber.org/papers/w32336
Thanks to all participants to the Workshop on Decentralization in Healthcare that we have organized together with Institut d'Estudis de l'Autogovern I learned a lot from the evidence presented for several European Countries!! And the beautiful Palau Centelles is an unbeatable venue!! IEB
LSE academics Matteo M Galizzi & Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 have co-edited a new book on what #COVID19 taught us about behavioural economics and policy.
Review from Cass Sunstein, Professor Harvard Law School: 'It's the best 'lessons learned' book out there.'
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Yes, book w Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 is out! Great chapters by George Loewenstein Mario Macis Silvia Saccardo Hengchen Dai Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri Dr. Janina Steinert Liam Delaney Adam Oliver Henrike Sternberg Dr. Sanchayan Banerjee +. Thanks Cass Sunstein & Erik Wengström for kind reviews! bit.ly/49wXZCl
Next week I will be joining judit vall castello 🇺🇦 and Joan Costa-Font (he/him)🌏 among others at this workshop to discuss the impact of decentralisations and reorganisations. #healtheconomics